Senior Manager, Environmental Planning

Crusoe is on a mission to accelerate the abundance of energy and intelligence. As the only vertically integrated AI infrastructure company built from the ground up, we own and operate each layer of the stack — from electrons to tokens — to power the world's most ambitious AI workloads. When you join Crusoe, you join a team that is building the future, faster. We're in the midst of the greatest industrial revolution of our time. The demand for AI compute is boundless, and power is a bottleneck. We're solving that — with an energy-first approach that makes AI infrastructure better for the world and faster for the people innovating with AI. We're looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services. If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe. About This Role: Join Crusoe Energy as our Senior Manager, Environmental Planning. In this role, you will lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of environmental programs, systems, and compliance strategies that support Crusoe’s rapidly expanding portfolio of hyperscale data center campuses and integrated power generation assets. By serving as an embedded environmental subject matter expert during the earliest stages of project development and site origination, you will ensure key environmental risks are proactively identified, evaluated, and managed. This is a full-time position. Operating within a highly matrixed organization, you will partner cross-functionally across Business Development, Real Estate, Energy, Engineering, Construction, and Legal to scale our operations with environmental excellence. The ideal candidate is a strategic leader who combines deep regulatory knowledge in construction stormwater, wetlands, and pre-construction due diligence with world-class project management skills to translate environmental liabilities into clear, actionable business guidance. What You’ll Be Working On: - Pre-Project Screening & Due Diligence: Partner with Business Development, Real Estate, and Real Estate teams during initial site identification to oversee preliminary environmental assessments, wetland delineations, water and biological surveys, and air permit analyses to identify potential fatal flaws and schedule drivers. - Standardized Screening Frameworks: Develop, maintain, and operationalize a standardized pre-project environmental screening framework, including risk matrices and criteria specifically tailored to data center and power generation projects. - Environmental Risk Integration: Translate complex environmental constraints (wetlands, floodplains, protected species, water resources) into clear, actionable guidance for land acquisition and corporate development teams to inform negotiations and agreements. - Program Design & Governance: Establish scalable corporate environmental programs, policies, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to align development with our sustainability goals while driving regional consistency. - Cross-Functional Tools & Workflows: Create and maintain tools, templates, and structured workflows that enable multi-disciplinary teams to integrate environmental requirements seamlessly throughout the project lifecycle. - Construction Environmental Assurance: Partner with site environmental and engineering and construction teams to oversee stormwater management, environmental audits, and compliance tracking, ensuring that environmental obligations are met during active construction. - Reporting & Compliance Dashboards: Develop and manage centralized documentation, regulatory correspondence tracking systems, and enviro