Amazon is looking for a talented and self-motivated Senior Regional Environmental Manager-EMEA to lead the environmental team across the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) region.
The successful candidate will join the AWS Environmental team, an expanding and dynamic team that is critical to enabling AWS's growth around the world, as well as ensuring regulatory compliance and highest-level environmental performance of AWS's data center global operations.
The Environmental team has responsibility for managing Environmental requirements and risk from site selection through to decommissioning.
The Senior Regional Environmental Manager role has end-to-end accountability for the full environmental lifecycle of AWS data center infrastructure in EMEA — from initial site selection and due diligence through permitting, construction, operational compliance, and decommissioning.
The successful candidate will directly manage a team of Regional Environmental Managers (REMs) and Regional Environmental Engineers (REEs), driving infrastructure permitting, development delivery, and ongoing operational environmental compliance across EMEA.
This is a senior leadership role within the Global Environmental organization.
The position will serve as a key member of the Global Environmental leadership team, shaping regional and global environmental strategy while maintaining hands-on accountability for project delivery and regulatory compliance in EMEA.
Key job responsibilities Leadership build a high-performing, regionally distributed environmental team.
• Serve as a key member of the Global Environmental leadership team, contributing to global strategy and driving cross-regional best practice sharing.
Infrastructure Development find paths forward in difficult situations and make trade-offs between short- and long-term needs.
• Identify opportunities to improve environmental regulations, providing technical input to AWS's policy advocacy efforts.
Negotiate with regulators to clarify ambiguous regulations.
• Explain AWS's environmental profile to neighbors and community members, designing environmental attitudes assessments for AWS InCommunities.
• Document issues in standard reporting tools and drive resolution.
Stakeholder Engagement • Partner with AWS stakeholders including Real Estate, Legal, Risk, Water, Design, Public Policy, Construction, and Operational teams to deliver new data center infrastructure that meets environmental requirements and optimizes environmental opportunities.
• Engage regularly with external stakeholders including regulatory agencies, environmental consultants, and contractors.
• Be recognized regionally as a subject matter expert (SME).
A day in the life The AWS Environmental team supports the full lifecycle of infrastructure development, beginning with site selection and due diligence and continuing through design, construction, and operations.
As Senior Regional Environmental Manager, you will lead a team of Regional Environmental Managers and Engineers across EMEA, balancing strategic leadership with hands-on technical delivery.
On any given day, you may be reviewing a particularly complex Phase II ESA for a new data center site, negotiating a permit with a state regulatory agency, coaching a direct report through a complex compliance challenge, or presenting regional environmental performance metrics to global leadership.
About the team 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, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles.
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.
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To learn more about AWS, visit and BASIC QUALIFICATIONS - Experience leading large teams, with demonstrable ability to hire, develop, and manage high-performing technical teams - Bachelor's degree in environmental engineering, geology, environmental science, or a related discipline.
- 15+ years of multi-media environmental due diligence, permitting, and compliance experience for existing sites and new development.
- 10+ years of progressive experience delivering transactional Phase I and Phase II ESAs, site investigation and remediation, and bownfield development in EMEA.
- 7+ years of people management experience leading geographically distributed teams across multiple regions.
Demonstrated experience managing and leading teams of environmental professionals.
- Experience developing programmatic approaches and tools/mechanisms to evaluate and manage environmental risks and a contaminated site portfolio, including coordination with finance, real estate, legal, and external agency stakeholders.
- Experience with controls and financial reporting in accordance with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for remedial activities with construction site compliance experience.
- Proven track record of delivering multiple, high-priority projects with tight timelines requiring strong communication with partner teams, outside consultants, internal counsel, and regulatory agencies.
- Demonstrated ability to partner cross-functionally to accomplish strategic initiatives and multi-year plans to improve corporate environmental performance PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS - Advanced degree in environmental science, engineering, or a related field and/or professional certifications (e.g., PE, PG, CHMM, or equivalent).
- EMEA site investigation, remediation, and/or development experience.
Experience with large-scale, complex site redevelopment in fast-paced environment.
- Data center or critical infrastructure due diligence, design, construction, and/or risk assessment experience strongly preferred.
- Established relationships and understanding of existing and emerging environmental requirements throughout the EMEA - Experience managing and/or supporting community/public interactions.
- Experience working with large, geographically distributed teams on a diverse slate of projects.