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# Director of Sustainability and Environment (APAC) at STACK Infrastructure APAC

- **Company:** STACK Infrastructure APAC
- **Location:** Melbourne, Australia
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-10-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/stack-infrastructure-apac-pte-ltd/426dae1a-7f49-4c24-9e8c-e2cc14c137a7

## Job description

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

## About you

- A relevant tertiary qualification in environmental science, environmental engineering, planning, sustainability, law or a related discipline
- At least 10 years of progressive experience in environmental and sustainable design
- Substantial recent experience within a multidisciplinary or specialist environmental consultancy team, directing approvals and technical assessment work for major developments or infrastructure, or Client-side experience following a senior consulting career, or evidence of working as an extension of a developer or asset owner team
- Approvals experience for data centres, power generation, energy infrastructure, logistics, industrial facilities or other developments with material noise, air quality, water and community interfaces
- Experience across both development approval and post-consent compliance, including construction environmental management and operational monitoring commitments
- Experience with recognised Australian or international sustainability-rating frameworks and sustainability performance reporting for data centres, major infrastructure, industrial facilities or other energy-intensive assets
- Demonstrated experience with Victorian and New South Wales approval systems, including direct engagement with EPA, councils and state planning authorities
- Strong working knowledge of environmental legislation, the General Environmental Duty, planning permit and development consent processes, regulator expectations and the management of approval conditions
- Proven ability to direct and review multidisciplinary technical reports, including environmental impact assessments, acoustics, sustainability management plans, building-services ESD strategies, energy models, sustainability-rating submissions and performance reports
- Strong written communication, negotiation and presentation skills, with the judgement to brief executives and resolve complex issues with authorities and technical specialists

## Equal Opportunity Employer

STACK provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

## About STACK Infrastructure APAC

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: STACK Infrastructure APAC is the Asia-Pacific arm of STACK Infrastructure, a global developer and operator of wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers, providing scalable digital infrastructure for hyperscale and enterprise companies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Subsidiary of STACK Infrastructure; registered as a Private Company Limited by Shares in Singapore)
- **Headquarters**: Singapore (18 Robinson Road, #24-02 18 Robinson, Singapore 048547)
- **Founded**: 2021 (incorporated on 1 November 2021)
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Data centers / digital infrastructure
- **Target customers**: Hyperscale cloud providers and global enterprise companies (B2B)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Providing digital infrastructure to scale the world’s most innovative companies” – delivering tailored solutions at any scale across the APAC region.

## Products & Services
- **Data Center Solutions**: A comprehensive suite including campus development, build-to-suit, colocation, and powered shell solutions. Facilities are designed for high reliability, efficiency, and sustainability.
- **Key APAC Locations** (with reported power capacity):
  - Melbourne, Australia – 2 sites, 432 MW
  - Sydney, Australia – 1 site, 360 MW
  - Tokyo, Japan – 1 site, 36 MW (plus additional capacity in Kansai area)
  - Osaka, Japan – 1 site, 78 MW
  - Johor Bahru, Malaysia – 1 site, 216 MW
- **Service Type**: Wholesale data center infrastructure (physical, not SaaS/API)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private entity)
- **Key Metric**: Total IT capacity across APAC campuses exceeds 1,100 MW (sum of listed sites); currently operating 4 campuses with significant expansion underway.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed; STACK Infrastructure global is backed by institutional investors (e.g., IPI Partners, though not confirmed for APAC entity specifically).
- **Growth Signals**: Active expansion in Japan, Australia, South Korea, and Malaysia; headcount has grown from ~7 to ~14 employees (per Singapore registry filings); multiple open positions listed on careers page.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Global platform**: Leverages STACK Infrastructure’s proven design, operational expertise, and supply chain across North America, EMEA, and APAC.
- **Scale and speed**: Ability to deliver large-scale campuses (e.g., 432 MW in Melbourne) with “unprecedented speed and scale” tailored to hyperscale requirements.
- **Client-first approach**: Offers flexible solutions (campus, build-to-suit, colocation, powered shell) to meet diverse needs.
- **Award-winning**: Recognized as an industry leader in building, owning, and operating data centers.

## Strategic Focus
- **APAC expansion**: Prioritizing large-scale projects in key markets (Japan, Australia, Malaysia, South Korea) to meet surging demand for digital infrastructure.
- **Sustainability**: Building facilities to “the highest standards of reliability, efficiency, and sustainability.”
- **Talent growth**: Actively hiring across technical, legal, and marketing roles to support regional growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes inclusivity, growth, and dynamic collaboration; “diverse perspectives are celebrated, and career development is central.”
- **Impact**: Work directly supports the digital foundation for innovative global companies.
- **Benefits**: “Exceptional benefits” offered (specifics not detailed on public pages).
- **Work policy**: Not explicitly stated; likely hybrid/on-site at data center campuses or the Singapore regional HQ.
- **Engineering culture**: Opportunities for systems administrators, digital controls leads, and other technical roles in a high-growth industry.

## Sources
1. [careers-page.com](https://www.careers-page.com/stack-infrastructure) – Career page overview
2. [stackinfra.com](https://www.stackinfra.com/about/careers/) – Company values and benefits
3. [stackinfra.com](https://www.stackinfra.com/locations/asia-pacific/) – APAC locations and capacity details
4. [stackinfra.com](https://www.stackinfra.com/japan-en/) – Japan-specific overview and mission
5. [recordowl.com](https://recordowl.com/company/stack-infrastructure-apac-pte-ltd) – Singapore company registration, employee count, and industry classification

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- [Vice President, Commercial Contracts and Operations Procurement (APAC)](https://feeny.ai/job/vice-president-commercial-contracts-and-operations-procurement-apac-stack-2msdzgybayfd) — Singapore
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