About the Role
Microsoft’s Cloud Operations & Innovation (CO+I) team manages the full lifecycle of Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. The CO+I Energy Team sources, negotiates, and delivers strategic energy projects to advance datacenter growth, focusing on sustainability, time to market, and economic value. This role specifically focuses on datacenter power infrastructure delivery for the Americas region, managing projects from pre-programming through design, construction, and turnover to Operations.
Responsibilities
- Facilitate and deliver Microsoft’s industry-leading datacenter power infrastructure, including new technology and advanced concepts from pre-programming through design development, construction, and turnover to Operations.
- Serve as the utility point-of-contact for design and construction, coordinating meetings, routing approvals, managing documentation, and providing scope and schedule reports.
- Ensure cross-functional scope alignment, track funding and POs, build budgets/estimates, and manage risks and approvals.
- Own the Microsoft Project schedule by defining critical path and predecessors, updating progress, verifying equipment dates, and issuing schedule and risk reports with mitigations.
- Track and report all major power utility milestones from contracting, permitting, design, procurement, construction, installation, commissioning, and ready-for-service completion.
Requirements
- Master's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Materials Science, or related field AND 3+ years experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, engineering, operations, or relevant sales-related roles OR Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Materials Science, or related field AND 4+ years experience in procurement, supply chain, sourcing, engineering, operations, or relevant sales-related roles OR equivalent experience.
- 3+ years’ experience in consulting engineering or construction of substations.
- Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements.
- Must pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Skills
- Project management
- Communication
- Organization
- Leadership
- Proficiency in transmission and substation design and construction
- Lead teams of engineers and construction project managers in advanced engineering and operational processes and procedures as they relate to large datacenter environments
Location
- Americas region
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years
- 4+ years
- 5+ years
- 6+ years
- 8+ years
Education Level
- Master's degree
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- CAD $114,400.00 - CAD $203,900.00 per year
About the Company
- Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
- As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals.
- Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Equal Opportunity
- Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances.
- If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
