Senior Environmental Development and Permitting Manager, Amazon Manufacturing Operations, Transportation Operations

About the role

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a talented, technically experienced, and self-motivated Sr. Environmental Development and Permitting Manager to support AWS Manufacturing, Test, and Operations (MOTO) facilities. The successful candidate will join the AWS Environmental team—an expanding and dynamic team critical to enabling AWS’s global growth while ensuring regulatory compliance and high-level environmental performance of AWS’s manufacturing operations.

This role sits within the MOTO Environmental organization and serves as the strategic owner for new site environmental development, environmental permitting across all MOTO facilities, environmental playbook development, and advisory support to EMEA/APAC regional teams. As the senior technical subject matter expert (SME), you will lead waste program management, environmental reporting, permitting strategies, and emergency response and spill prevention planning across all MOTO manufacturing facilities.

Preferred onsite locations are Seattle, WA; Herndon, VA; or Florence, KY, with a preference for Florence, KY, tied to the primary initial focus of the MOTO Environmental compliance program.

Responsibilities

• New Site Environmental Development: Own the strategic environmental development program for new MOTO manufacturing sites—defining permitting readiness frameworks, compliance architecture, and activation-to-steady-state transition protocols for rapid facility expansions. Drive the multi-year environmental compliance roadmap, identifying gaps ahead of planned manufacturing phases and building programs proactively. Provide strategic technical guidance on new manufacturing processes, materials, and chemistries for regulatory implications prior to deployment.
• Environmental Permit Management: Lead environmental permitting strategy across all MOTO facilities—setting standards for permit applications, regulatory applicability determinations, agency engagement, and permit conditions management. Serve as senior technical authority for air quality, water quality, hazardous materials permitting, and RCRA compliance. Develop scalable, replicable permitting frameworks to accelerate environmental authorization. Define waste characterization protocols, regulatory applicability frameworks, and disposal pathway standards for manufacturing waste streams. Own the technical strategy for waste characterization, profiling, and RCRA compliance.
• Emergency Response & Spill Prevention: Develop and maintain emergency response plans, SPCC plans, and contingency plans for all MOTO manufacturing facilities. Lead spill incident reporting, root cause analysis, and corrective action oversight.
• Advisory Support to EMEA/APAC: Serve as technical advisor to regional teams, adapting MOTO protocols for international regulatory contexts.
• Cross-Functional Integration & Leadership: Drive integration between Environmental and Manufacturing Operations, Real Estate, Legal, Supply Chain, and Sustainability teams. Operate independently in ambiguous, high-stakes regulatory environments—defining the path forward and driving technical decisions at the portfolio level. Establish metrics frameworks and reporting architecture for environmental compliance performance.

A day in the life

This role sits at the intersection of strategic environmental development and operational compliance excellence. A typical day involves advancing new site permitting strategies—evaluating whether the current framework is scalable for future build phases—leading regulatory agency calls on air permits, briefing infrastructure teams on timeline implications, and collaborating with process engineers to assess TRI thresholds, hazmat storage triggers, and RCRA implications before procurement decisions.

You will build processes to ensure the right questions are always asked, shift between advancing the environmental playbook, coordinating waste vendor logistics, reviewing environmental reports, and providing technical advisory guidance to regional teams. The role requires evaluating permitting implications of next-generation technologies, defining strategies for upcoming facility expansions, and ensuring the environmental program is fully designed and ready to deploy.

Comfort with regulatory ambiguity, defining solutions in uncertain environments, and operating at both strategic and tactical levels is essential.

About the team

AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. The team supports all AWS data centers and the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure customers have continual access to innovation. You’ll collaborate with software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles to deliver the highest standards for safety, security, and capacity at the lowest possible cost. The culture is inclusive, empowering, and welcomes bold ideas.

Requirements

• 5+ years of program management or technical project management experience.

Qualifications

• Experience developing and implementing environmental compliance programs, including regulated waste, water, and air regulations.
• Experience managing conflict, escalations, negotiating compromise, and influencing engineering teams.
• Expertise in environmental compliance and permitting, waste management, contractual and regulatory assessments, environmental permit evaluations, EIAs, and water discharge requirements.
• Experience working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, communicating complex information to senior stakeholders, and influencing decisions.
• Experience developing environmental compliance playbooks for new technology deployments, including pre-deployment regulatory assessments, permit strategy development, and waste management program setup.

Pay

Base salary ranges:

• Cincinnati, OH: $148,700 – $201,200 USD annually
• Herndon, VA: $148,700 – $201,200 USD annually
• Seattle, WA: $148,700 – $201,200 USD annually

Additional compensation may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation is determined by experience, qualifications, and location.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D, with optional supplemental life plans).
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and mental health support.
• Medical Advice Line and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.

Learn more about benefits at amazon.jobs/en/benefits.