Sr. Risk Mgr, Env Strategy, Environmental Assurance and Protection

DESCRIPTION

At Amazon, we are committed to and invested in the natural environment because it is good for business, the planet, our customers, and our communities. The Worldwide Environmental Assurance & Protection team capitalizes on Amazon's scale, speed, and ability to invent and simplify to create a better and more resilient company. We manage our environmental impacts globally, uphold company standards and expectations, and seek to continuously improve the tools and processes that we use in doing so.

The Sr. Risk Mgr, Env Strategy will work directly with all leaders from EAP central businesses, covering Air, Water Waste and California operations compliance. The position will develop operating plans, assist with strategic documents, define and monitor budgets and provide structure across the organization. This role will work closely with environmental Field Teams in California and all operations business units to ensure that the designed programs will meet the needs of each stakeholder group.

This role requires the ability to communicate technical concepts to audiences with varying backgrounds and experience. Additionally, this role may assist with legal, environmental consultants or technical teams to resolve environmental program barriers, ensuring customers have a positive experience with internal tools and resources, and coordinating streamlined access to process material.

Key job responsibilities
-Scope, create, and proactively drive program operational plans.
-Communicate to director level stakeholders on project status, risk and program changes
-Manage the full life-cycle of environmental budget planning
-Lead weekly meetings and track actions, owners and timelines to keep programs on schedule
-Develop the overall program roadmap, tactically driving teams in and outside of your organization to deliver
-Develop, implement, and govern KPI reporting for a portfolio of programs, providing visibility to the milestones, and performance across all projects
-Work autonomously in an ambiguous environment, seeking to understand business problems, automation limitations, scaling factors, boundary conditions and reasons behind leadership decisions
-Oversee work performed by relevant contractors and consultants.
-Utilize excellent written and verbal communication skills, while presenting to director level leaders.

A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you're passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

About the team
The environmental assurance and protection team ushers the safe and compliant operations across air, water and waste. We pass all regulatory inspections with flying colors. We build intuitive operations solutions that associates willingly and consistently use on every shift. Our easy-to-use products are built for scale, adapt for all site types and staffing scenarios, and are zero-touch whenever possible.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 6+ years of compliance, audit or risk management experience
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level
- Bachelor's Degree in civil, chemical or environmental engineering or related field of engineering or science study
- Experience using in depth knowledge of federal, state and local environmental regulations
- Experience diving deep with engineering teams to understand operations processes

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification
- Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles / Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvements or equivalent
- Master's Degree in civil, chemical or environmental engineering or related field of engineering or science study

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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