Data-Centre Water-Control Recovery Leader

The mandate

Drought restrictions and a disputed campus water balance exposed that makeup, blowdown, reclaimed supply, emergency potable use and vendor treatment were measured on incompatible boundaries. During two cooling incidents, local overrides protected compute but bypassed the expected water-escalation route. The regional leader departed after authorities requested reconciled evidence. The interim assumes critical-infrastructure authority while engineers, environmental officers and control rooms retain technical, permit and safety decisions.

The appointment starts within two weeks and runs ten months through summer heat, authority review and a permanent search commencing in month three. The first twenty days establish one water balance, secure drought states and review every override. Months two through six rebuild source, cooling, treatment, maintenance and escalation routines. The final phase proves control through heat, supply-loss and concurrent-failure exercises before the successor chairs eight campus reviews.

Handover is complete when the permanent leader has run eight reviews, water balances reconcile for twelve weeks, every override has reason, authority and expiry, and authority actions carry accepted evidence. The successor inherits source rights, campus capacity, cooling dependencies, water-quality and asset risks, supplier contracts, emergency positions, community commitments and a ninety-day plan owned by permanent facility leaders.

The interim may set drought operating states, reallocate approved water and maintenance resources, reject unsupported capacity release, suspend vendor work and authorise temporary supply inside existing permits and budget. Cooling design, environmental interpretation, customer load curtailment, permanent senior appointments, new wells, contracts above USD10 million or public commitments require authorised engineers, officers, executives or committee approval. Control-room safety authority remains absolute.

New-campus siting, long-range watershed policy, compute scheduling strategy, cooling-system redesign and permit negotiation are outside scope. The interim will not understate emergency potable use, shift water across reporting boundaries, defer essential maintenance or compromise thermal safety. Work concerns truthful resource control and resilient operation of existing campuses; environmental assurance and community decisions remain with their accountable owners.

Why this seat is open

Drought pressure turned inconsistent water accounting and local cooling overrides into an authority and trust issue. The leadership exit came before the highest thermal-risk season. The company needs a critical-infrastructure executive who can make immediate resource trade-offs, respect engineering command and hand permanent leaders an operable water-control system.

What you will own

• Reconcile source, makeup, circulation, evaporation, blowdown, treatment, discharge, emergency and storage water by campus, operating state, meter confidence, contractual boundary and degraded supply condition.
• Decide drought-state resource and maintenance priorities within delegated authority against thermal and permit evidence.
• Reset override governance with trigger, decision maker, duration, consequence, notification and expiry.
• Align cooling, water quality, facilities, capacity, procurement and utility reviews around one balance.
• Close authority commitments through sampled meter, event and operating-state evidence.
• Exercise extreme heat, reclaimed-supply loss, treatment failure, meter loss and simultaneous cooling fault.
• Induct the permanent leader and transfer source, plant, supplier, authority and community risks.

Candidate qualifications

• Has held executive authority for critical cooling and water operations across hyperscale or comparable continuous facilities through extreme heat, drought and utility restriction.
• Can evidence recovery of resource control without compromising thermal availability or environmental obligations.
• Understands evaporative cooling, reclaimed water, treatment, blowdown, metering, drought stages and utility interfaces.
• Has governed technical overrides while preserving control-room and engineering authority.
• Can distinguish withdrawal, consumption, recirculation, discharge and emergency supply across campus boundaries.
• Has handed a high-scrutiny infrastructure recovery to permanent leadership after peak heat.

Non-negotiables

• Can start onsite in Phoenix within two weeks and remain through the summer heat period.
• Will not override safety, engineering, environmental, permit or utility authority.
• Brings direct critical-facility water and cooling accountability; sustainability reporting alone is insufficient.
• Will disclose emergency potable use, boundary changes and unresolved meter confidence in all reporting.

1. 49 words maximum. Which water-balance boundary most seriously distorted resource use in a critical campus you led?
2. 49 words maximum. Confirm your earliest Phoenix start date and the largest cooling estate you commanded.
3. 49 words maximum. How have you governed a cooling override without weakening technical stop authority?