Sr. Regional Environmental Engineer, AWS Environmental Team

Position Overview

Join a diverse, dynamic, and enthusiastic team of environmental professionals at Amazon Web Services (AWS) driving environmental permitting and compliance for data centers and infrastructure. As a Regional Environmental Engineer, you will enable AWS’s growth by ensuring regulatory compliance, leading environmental due diligence, and partnering with multiple AWS teams and external stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.

• Assess environmental risks and develop mitigations and strategies to support data center siting and development.
• 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 (Real Estate, Design, Water, Legal, Risk, Power, etc.) to optimize site designs.
• 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, manage, and track metrics to evaluate project success.

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent.
• Experience delivering multi-media environmental due diligence, permitting and compliance projects with expertise in CWA 404 and NPDES permitting, groundwater protection, wastewater discharge, and natural and cultural resource evaluations.
• 7+ years experience conducting environmental due diligence for greenfield and brownfield sites.
• At least 3 years of project or task management experience for environmental permitting and/or due diligence projects.

• Experience managing large projects and multifunctional teams.
• Data center or critical infrastructure due diligence, design, construction, and/or risk assessment experience.
• Experience in multiple US states (preferably OH, IN, MO, KY, MI, IL, WI).
• Experience managing and/or supporting community/public interactions.
• Experience with Smartsheet or other project management software.
• Up to 25% travel.

USA, VA, Herndon –  –  USD annually.
USA, WA, Seattle –  –  USD annually.

Amazon Data Services, Inc.

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