Senior Environmental Program Manager, AWS Environmental Team, Infrastructure Development

We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain — and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

You will coordinate with internal and external counsel on site acquisition, permitting, and regulatory compliance risks and support development of contractual environmental obligations.

The candidate must have a strong understanding of multi-media environmental permitting, remediation, and compliance requirements associated with large-scale infrastructure and experience with Clean Water Act (CWA) 404 and NPDES permitting in the eastern United States.

About the team

The AWS Environmental Team is an expanding team that is critical to enabling AWS’s growth around the world, as well as ensuring compliance of AWS’s global operations, including physical data centers, as well as other AWS facilities, customer-facing enterprises and products.

• Position is onsite.
• Up to 25% travel may be required.

• Assess environmental risks and requirements and develop mitigations and strategies to support data center siting and development strategies and site-specific project delivery.
• Conduct environmental due diligence activities, including Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments, regulatory and permitting evaluations, and natural, biological and cultural resource evaluations.
• Deliver environmental permits, approvals, and plans to enable on-time and compliant construction and operations for new data center locations and expansion of existing sites.
• Communicate environmental requirements to internal and external project partners and collaborate with regulatory agencies, environmental consultants, design engineers, legal teams, and project managers, to facilitate the permitting process and address environmental concerns.
• Coordinate with partner teams to optimize site masterplans accounting for environmentally sensitive areas and develop site development and permitting strategies that ensure that projects are environmentally responsible and sustainable and meet required timelines.
• Coordinate and lead regulatory agency interactions and negotiations in support of environmental permit acquisition and regional development strategies.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement, driving efficiencies, and developing initiatives to improve AWS’ management of environmental risks.
• Develop, manage and track metrics to evaluate project delivery.

Diverse Experiences

Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship and Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

About the team

The AWS Environmental Infrastructure Development team supports the full lifecycle of infrastructure development, beginning with site selection and due diligence and continuing through design, construction, and transition to operations. We partner with internal teams including Environmental Compliance, Real Estate, Power, Water, Design, Risk, Legal, Construction, and Operations teams to deliver new data center infrastructure that meets environmental requirements and optimizes environmental opportunities.

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, biology, engineering or related discipline.
• 10+ years delivering multi-media environmental due diligence, permitting, and compliance projects with specific experience in CWA 404 and NPDES permitting, groundwater protection, wastewater discharge, and natural and cultural resource evaluations.
• 7+ years experience delivering environmental due diligence for greenfield and brownfield sites, including Phase I and Phase II ESAs and support for investigative and remedial activities.
• 7+ years experience managing large project teams and multiple stakeholders, including regulatory negotiations, and delivering environmental permits and compliance for large scale infrastructure development during design and construction.
• 5+ years datacenter or critical infrastructure due diligence, permitting, design, construction, and/or or risk assessment experience strongly preferred.
• Experience managing and/or supporting community/public interactions and evaluating and managing environmental policy changes.
• Sustainability experience for large scale infrastructure development.
• Experience in a fast-paced, changing/growing organization.
• Proficient with MS Excel, Word, and Windows Operating Systems.
• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated problem-solving ability.
• The Environmental Program Manager must have excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong environmental regulatory knowledge and experience in environmental due diligence and environmental permit preparation.

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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