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Overview:
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers-including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies-are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. To learn more about AWS, visit https://aws.amazon.com.
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 architecting and implementing AWS's global environmental programs. This includes defining and implementing risk 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 of 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 environmental compliance strategies that support current and future business objectives while ensuring employee compliance with environmental regulations.
The Regional Environmental Engineer (REE) will be responsible for environmental compliance at Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres in the Asia Pacific Region. The REE will support the regional Environmental team to develop standards and policies to support regulatory compliance and provide environmental compliance guidance for regional operations and construction teams. The individual will complete environmental performance analysis, establish and monitor metrics, and guide the teams in implementation of Amazon environmental standards. The REE will work with internal and external partners that include contractors, consultants, design, construction, operations and other key stakeholders. This position is based in Sydney and will require domestic and international travel.
The Regional Environmental Engineer must have excellent communication skills, strong environmental regulatory knowledge, particularly with respect to regulations and standards through at least two regimes in the Asia Pacific region
Responsibilities:
- Manage and oversee compliance with local and federal environmental regulations in the Asia Pacific region and Amazon policy.
- Develop regional strategic programs by integrating with engineering, construction, and operations.
- Drive an environmentally responsible culture within the organization.
- Ensure work performed by contractors, consultants, and employees is completed in accordance with Amazon standards.
- Conduct thorough and accurate environmental audits for continuous improvement.
- Prioritize and manage multiple technically complex assignments concurrently.
- Build collaborative relationships with various stakeholders to ensure risks are identified early and managed appropriately.
- Submit time critical reports to various governmental agencies
- Complete thorough and accurate environmental investigations and associated regulatory reports and develop appropriate corrective actions
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:
Sydney, NSW, AUS
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- A completed Bachelor's Degree in chemistry, chemical or environmental engineering or related field of study.
- Minimum of 7 years of experience serving as an environmental technical resource, environmental , program specialist, or program manager
- Experience with contractual, regulatory, and liability assessments, permit evaluations and applications, planning approvals, water discharge requirements, and waste management
- Broad knowledge of environmental regulations and programs over numerous Asia Pacific regions
- Experience leading change in multiple site environments and the ability to influence those that are not direct reports or within your organization
- Experience successfully implementing environmental systems
- Excellent organizational and project management skills
- Strong interpersonal skills: excellent communication skills, strong relationship builder, solid influencing and negotiation skills, and the ability to coach at multiple levels
- Proficient with MS Excel, Word, and Windows Operating Systems
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including comfort interfacing with senior leaders inside and outside the company
- Experience in a fast paced, changing/growing organization
- Strong analytical skills with demonstrated problem solving ability
Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
IDE statement:
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes.
