Environmental Specialist, NA

About the role

Position Overview: The Environmental Specialist is responsible for supporting environmental compliance programs at assigned data center campuses. This role serves as the local environmental resource, helping ensure compliance with applicable environmental regulations, permits, company standards, and regulatory commitments. The Environmental Specialist works closely with Site Operations, Construction, Engineering, contractors, and EHS personnel to identify environmental risks, conduct inspections, maintain compliance documentation, support audits, and drive corrective actions to closure. This position plays a critical role in maintaining Vantage's audit-ready environmental compliance posture while supporting safe and reliable operation of mission-critical facilities.

About Vantage: Vantage powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Responsibilities

• Environmental Compliance: Support compliance with applicable federal, state, provincial, and local environmental regulations.
• Assist in the implementation of environmental compliance programs and standards.
• Monitor compliance with environmental permits and regulatory requirements.
• Track regulatory commitments, inspections, reporting deadlines, and permit conditions.
• Escalate compliance concerns and emerging environmental risks to leadership.
• Environmental Inspections & Audits: Conduct routine environmental inspections of operational facilities and construction activities.
• Verify compliance with: Environmental permits, SPCC requirements, Waste-management requirements, Chemical-management requirements, Stormwater controls.
• Document findings and track corrective actions.
• Participate in internal, customer, and regulatory audits.
• Assist in preparing sites for environmental inspections and assessments.
• Environmental Program Support: Support implementation and maintenance of campus environmental programs, including: Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC), Air-permit compliance, Stormwater management, Waste management, Spill response and reporting, Environmental compliance documentation.
• Assist with permit renewals, records management, inspections, and regulatory reporting activities.
• Environmental Incident Response: Respond to environmental incidents, spills, releases, and permit deviations.
• Assist with containment, cleanup coordination, waste disposal, and documentation.
• Support incident investigations and root-cause analyses.
• Track corrective actions and verify completion.
• Participate in emergency response exercises and drills involving environmental scenarios.
• Environmental Documentation & Compliance Systems: Maintain environmental compliance records and documentation.
• Update compliance management systems, trackers, and dashboards.
• Support maintenance of: Permit inventories, Compliance calendars, Inspection records, Spill records, Training records, Corrective-action logs.
• Ensure environmental documentation remains complete, accurate, and audit-ready.
• Environmental Awareness & Training: Deliver environmental compliance awareness training.
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