Sr. Regional Enviro Engineer, Dev, AWS Environmental Team

About the role

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.

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 delivering multi-media environmental due diligence, permitting, and compliance projects with specific expertise in CWA 404 and NPDES permitting, groundwater protection, wastewater discharge, and natural and cultural resource evaluations.

Bachelor’s degree in environmental engineering, environmental science, civil engineering 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.

5+ years of project management experience for environmental permitting and/or due diligence projects.

Qualifications

Experience in multiple states within the US (preferably in VA, MD, PA).

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.

Experience with Smartsheets or other project management software.

Up to 25% travel.

Experience working with large teams on a diverse slate of projects.

Skills

Strong understanding of multi-media United States environmental permitting, remediation, and compliance requirements associated with large-scale infrastructure.

Benefits

Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.