Amazon is looking for a talented and self-motivated Senior Regional Environmental Manager-EMEA to lead the environmental team across the Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) region. The successful candidate will join the AWS Environmental team, an expanding and dynamic team that is critical to enabling AWS's growth around the world, as well as ensuring regulatory compliance and highest-level environmental performance of AWS's data center global operations. The Environmental team has responsibility for managing Environmental requirements and risk from site selection through to decommissioning.
The Senior Regional Environmental Manager role has end-to-end accountability for the full environmental lifecycle of AWS data center infrastructure in EMEA — from initial site selection and due diligence through permitting, construction, operational compliance, and decommissioning. The successful candidate will directly manage a team of Regional Environmental Managers (REMs) and Regional Environmental Engineers (REEs), driving infrastructure permitting, development delivery, and ongoing operational environmental compliance across EMEA.
This is a senior leadership role within the Global Environmental organization. The position will serve as a key member of the Global Environmental leadership team, shaping regional and global environmental strategy while maintaining hands-on accountability for project delivery and regulatory compliance in EMEA.
Key job responsibilities
Leadership & Team Management
- Directly manage multiple Regional Environmental Managers and Regional Environmental Engineers across the EMEA region, providing coaching, performance management, and career development.
- Set strategic direction for the EMEA regional environmental teams, spanning infrastructure development, operational compliance, and environmental programs.
- Hire, develop, and promote talent; build a high-performing, regionally distributed environmental team.
- Serve as a key member of the Global Environmental leadership team, contributing to global strategy and driving cross-regional best practice sharing.
Infrastructure Development & Permitting
- Oversee the environmental requirements for the full lifecycle of AWS data center site acquisition and development across EMEA, including site selection, due diligence, permitting, and compliant transition to operations.
- Lead and manage environmental due diligence activities, including Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs), brownfield redevelopment evaluations, health-risk assessments, and management of environmental risks and liabilities associated with acquired property.
- Develop and execute regional and site-specific environmental permitting and site management strategies to enable on-time and compliant construction and operations for new data center locations and expansion of existing sites.
- Coordinate and lead regulatory agency interactions and negotiations in support of environmental permit acquisition and regional development strategies.
- Coordinate with partner teams to optimize site masterplans that account for environmentally sensitive areas and deliver projects that meet the highest standards and meet required timelines.
- Assess environmental risks and requirements and develop mitigations and strategies to support data center siting and development strategies and site-specific project delivery.
- Conduct natural, biological, and cultural resource evaluations as part of the permitting and development process.
Environmental Compliance
- Hold ultimate responsibility for the management of environmental compliance activities across all EMEA operational data centers and facilities.
- Develop and influence regional and global environmental internal standards and policies to support regulatory compliance.
- Provide technical support and execute tactical compliance tasks across the EMEA region.
- Perform complex technical research and regulatory analysis on compliance needs (e.g., emission source changes triggering new compliance obligations) where problems and processes are not clearly defined.
- Expert understanding of EMEA environmental regulations and global standards, in addition to Amazon policy.
Strategy & Program Management
- Improve public perception of AWS and manage community and public interactions as required in support of permitting, development and operations activities.
- Lead external strategy and programmatic initiatives, including advancing environmental regulatory frameworks, contributing technical expertise to advocacy efforts, engaging with regulators and community stakeholders, and designing environmental assessment programs.
- Develop and influence new and existing regional and global environmental strategy, with the ability to execute global programs with complete independence where business strategy is not yet defined.
- Identify and drive implementation of process improvement opportunities, developing initiatives to improve AWS's management of environmental risks and driving efficiencies across the team.
- Develop, manage, and track metrics to evaluate project delivery and environmental performance across the region.
- Manage complex problems, decisions, and escalations to mitigate long-term risks; find paths forward in difficult situations and make trade-offs between short- and long-term needs.
- Identify opportunities to improve environmental regulations, providing technical input to AWS's policy advocacy efforts. Negotiate with regulators to clarify ambiguous regulations.
- Explain AWS's environmental profile to neighbors and community members, designing environmental attitudes assessments for AWS InCommunities.
- Document issues in standard reporting tools and drive resolution.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner with AWS stakeholders including Real Estate, Legal, Risk, Water, Design, Public Policy, Construction, and Operational teams to deliver new data center infrastructure that meets environmental requirements and optimizes environmental opportunities.
- Engage regularly with external stakeholders including regulatory agencies, environmental consultants, and contractors.
- Be recognized regionally as a subject matter expert (SME).
A day in the life
The AWS Environmental team supports the full lifecycle of infrastructure development, beginning with site selection and due diligence and continuing through design, construction, and operations. As Senior Regional Environmental Manager, you will lead a team of Regional Environmental Managers and Engineers across EMEA, balancing strategic leadership with hands-on technical delivery. On any given day, you may be reviewing a particularly complex Phase II ESA for a new data center site, negotiating a permit with a state regulatory agency, coaching a direct report through a complex compliance challenge, or presenting regional environmental performance metrics to global leadership.
About the team
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.
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