Regional Environmental Engineer, AWS Environmental

AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS)

AWS Infrastructure Services owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. 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 join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, environmental experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for environmental, 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.

For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud computing platform. What is cloud computing? Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the Internet.

The AWS Environmental team is an expanding and dynamic 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. The Environmental team has responsibility for developing and implementing AWS’s global environmental programs.

We are seeking an Environmental Engineer to support site development and environmental compliance in the United Kingdom. The environmental engineer will support new site development in the UK, including environmental permit preparation, communication with the authorities and overseeing consultants helping with the permit preparation. The engineer will also ensure standards and policies support regulatory compliance, and they will provide appropriate environmental guidance to regional operations teams.

The individual will support environmental performance analysis, reporting, monitor metrics and guide the operations teams in implementation of Amazon environmental procedures. The environmental engineer will work with internal and external partners that include government entities, contractors, consultants, design, construction, operations and other key stakeholders.

The Environmental Engineer must have excellent communication skills, local language skills, strong environmental regulatory knowledge including environmental permit preparation processes, demonstrated success in supporting roles for program development and management of complex and technical projects.

• Assess and support compliance with local and national environmental regulations, contractual obligations, and Amazon policy.
• Support environmental permit preparation and submittal to environmental authorities, negotiating permit requirements.
• Review and follow environmental due diligence processes for new site selection liaising with internal stakeholders.
• Play a key role in regional environmental programs by integrating with engineering, construction, and operation teams - drive an environmentally responsible culture within the organization while maintaining environmental management processes and external accreditation.
• Ensure work performed by contractors, consultants, and employees is completed in accordance with Amazon standards.
• Develop, analyze, and present environmental metrics, horizon scan for risk and effectively communicate insights to internal stakeholders.
• Submit time‑critical environmental reports to various governmental agencies.
• Complete thorough environmental investigations and associated regulatory reporting including working with operations/necessary stakeholders to develop and implement appropriate corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).

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