Company Overview

STACK Infrastructure builds, owns, and operates hyperscale and colocation data centers that power the world’s most ambitious technology companies. With a rapidly expanding footprint across APAC, STACK combines deep development expertise, flexible capital, and operational discipline to deliver critical digital infrastructure at scale.

Our clients include the largest hyperscale cloud platforms. We are building a regional platform defined by speed of delivery, power reliability, and long-term partnership — and we are assembling the team to lead that effort.

About STACK

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) is an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. We provide digital infrastructure that enables the world’s most innovative companies to scale, with facilities that meet or exceed the highest industry standards for availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience.

As a well-established data center business across APAC, the Americas, and Europe, STACK has successfully built several data centers in Melbourne and continues to expand its project portfolio with the goal of becoming a market leader in the hyperscale data center market.

STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need. The world runs on data, Data runs on STACK.

About the role

The Director, Sustainability and Environment APAC owns the sustainability and environmental strategy for STACK developments through design, consent, construction readiness and operations. The role also leads the integrated sustainability and building-services ESD workstreams. It ensures that authority requirements, environmental obligations, energy-performance objectives and sustainability commitments are understood early, translated into design requirements and closed through clear, defensible submissions and reporting. Reporting to the Senior Vice President Engineering APAC, the role directs environmental, acoustic, sustainability and building-services ESD consultants; coordinates multidisciplinary technical reports, energy models and sustainability-rating submissions; and provides practical advice to Development, Engineering, Design Management, Delivery and Operations teams.

Key responsibilities

Define the environmental approval pathway for new sites, campus expansions and major design changes

Lead environmental due diligence for prospective sites and identify approval risks, fatal flaws, mitigation measures and information needed before acquisition or design commitment

Develop project design documents for local development applications, Victorian planning approvals, New South Wales State Significant Development Applications and other state or Commonwealth pathways where applicable

Act as STACK's principal design-side interface with EPA Victoria, NSW EPA, local councils, state planning departments and other referral authorities

Set the scope, evidence standard and review process for environmental impact assessments, planning reports, sustainability management plans, acoustic assessments, General Environmental Duty and supporting technical studies

Lead responses to council, state and regulator comments on development technical submissions

Direct and critically review specialist studies covering operational and construction acoustics, air quality and emissions, contaminated land, surface water and groundwater, waste, ecology and biodiversity, cultural heritage, landscape and visual impact, climate risk and other project-specific matters

Lead the integrated project sustainability and building-services ESD strategy from site selection and concept design through construction, commissioning and operational handover

Set energy-performance objectives and direct energy modelling across design stages

Establish and manage the sustainability-rating and certification strategy, including target setting, consultant coordination, evidence registers, submissions, assessor or authority comments and achievement tracking