Regional Environmental Manager, Environmental Assurance and Protection (EAP)

Job description

Our team is seeking a Regional Environmental Manager (REM) who will lead and drive environmental operational excellence across Amazon sites in the New York and New Jersey area. The REM is an individual contributor who will be responsible for executing the environmental strategy and operational tactics by providing technical support for existing operations and future expansion across the region with future potential for leading a team.

This role is onsite (5 days/week - Monday-Friday) and will be based in the NY/NJ area. The REM will travel up to 50%.

Key job responsibilities

- Utilize risk assessments and compliance evaluations to drive continuous improvement initiatives that minimize environmental impacts. Communicate and implement best practices to sustain those gains.

- Manage and execute multi-site responsibilities to comply with air emissions, storm-water, waste, wastewater and other environmental-related laws, regulations and permits, which includes required Federal, State and Local reporting such as USEPA, EPCRA/SARA, Form R, and Tier II, state mandated permit reporting, and other required reporting as needed

- Develop and maintain relationships with business partners to support their success in environmental compliance, performance and sustainability initiatives

- Drive an environmentally responsible culture within the organization

- Manage and execute business conformance with Amazon Environmental policies through effective execution of Amazon Operational Environmental Procedures

- Develop relevant environmental procedures as dictated by business and regulatory needs

- Provide strategic environmental support and regulatory review for future business growth and expansion

- Partner with operations, special projects and support teams in supporting the change management process

- With continual scaling of organization, will grow to manage a team to successfully support business needs

- Facilitate root cause analyses for all environmental incidents and recommend appropriate corrective actions for network implementation.

- Conduct risk assessments and audits as necessary.

- Measure and analyze sites’ performance against requirements and policies.

- Future potential for managing a team.

A day in the life

This role will be based in the United States and will report to the Business Environmental Leader. Travel to Amazon sites within the region is expected up to 50% of the time and 5 days/week in office. The REM will partner with the operations leadership teams to execute company environmental procedures and ensure compliance with all applicable specific Federal, State and Local regulations. The REM will deliver a strategy for execution, supported by the EAP leadership team.

About the team

The Environmental Assurance and Protection team protects Amazon businesses and supports the needs of our customers by proactively mitigating environmental regulatory risks and protecting the environment.