Regional Enviro Engineer, Dev, AWS Environmental Team

About the position

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.

Join a diverse, dynamic, and enthusiastic team of environmental professionals

who play a leading role in environmental permitting and compliance at Amazon Web

Services (AWS), where we have a history of leading the world in innovative

technologies and services. The work of our Regional Environmental Engineers is

critical to enabling AWS's growth in the US and around the world.

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 team has

responsibility for architecting and implementing AWS’s global environmental

programs. This includes defining and implementing risk management and compliance

systems and driving their continuous improvement; setting and refining global

policies and procedures; overseeing the development of standards, tools,

auditing and metrics, and employee training; ensuring effective engagement by

environmental teams on global initiatives, including those that are part of

Amazon’s ambitious sustainability goals; providing specialist expertise; and

engaging with all AWS business units to provide scalable and effective

compliance strategies that support current and future business objectives while

ensuring compliance with environmental regulations.

You will partner with AWS stakeholders to develop regional and site-specific

development strategies enabling the construction and operation of AWS

datacenters and infrastructure. You will lead environmental due diligence for

site selection and acquisition, develop and execute regional and site-specific

environmental permitting strategies, support environmental compliance during

design and construction, and prepare for data center operations. This role

requires regular engagement throughout the development lifecycle with multiple

AWS stakeholders including Real Estate, Legal, Risk, Water, Design, Public

Policy, Construction, and Operational teams, as well as external stakeholders

including regulatory agencies, consultants, and contractors.

A successful candidate in this role will have a proven track record of

delivering multiple, high-priority projects with tight timelines that require

strong communication with partner teams, outside consultants and counsel, and

regulatory agencies. The candidate must have a strong understanding of

multi-media United States environmental permitting, remediation, and compliance

requirements associated with large-scale infrastructure including experience

with Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act (CWA) 404 and NPDES permitting, Threatened &

Endangered Species, RCRA, SPCC and SARA Title III.

Responsibilities

• Assess environmental risks and requirements and develop mitigations and

strategies to support data center siting and development strategies and

site-specific project delivery.

• Lead technical aspects of environmental due diligence, including Phase I and

Phase II Environmental Site Assessments, regulatory and permitting evaluations,

natural, biological and cultural resource evaluations, and noise assessments.

• 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, risks, and activities to internal and

external project partners.

• Coordinate with partner teams including Real Estate, Design, Water, Legal,

Risk, Power, and others to optimize site designs to consider natural resource or

operational constraints.

• Develop site development and permitting strategies that are environmentally

responsible and sustainable while meeting project timelines.

• Lead regulatory agency interactions and negotiations in support of

environmental permit acquisition and regional development strategies.

• Develop detailed compliance plans for environmental permits.
• Develop, manage and track metrics to evaluate project success and compliance

status.

Requirements

• Experience in MS Excel, Word, and Windows Operating Systems
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, environmental science, or related

discipline.

• 7+ years of experience delivering multi-media environmental due diligence,

permitting, and compliance for existing sites and new development.

• 7+ years experience conducting environmental due diligence for greenfield

and brownfield sites, including Phase I and Phase II ESAs and support for

investigative and remedial activities.

• At least 3 years of project or task management experience for environmental

permitting and/or due diligence projects.

Nice-to-haves

• Knowledge of project management tools and software
• Travel up to 25% of the time
• Experience working on multi-team, cross-disciplinary projects
• Experience in multiple states within the US (preferably in VA, MD, PA, WV,

NY, NJ).

• Data center or critical infrastructure due diligence, design, construction,

and/or or risk assessment experience strongly preferred.

• Experience managing and/or supporting community/public interactions.

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave