Jobbeschreibung
The Environmental Assurance and Protection team is seeking a Regional Environmental Manager (REM) who will lead and drive environmental operational excellence across our operations in Germany, Austria, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia. They will also provide technical support at our existing operations and future expansion across the region.
This role is responsible for ensuring strategy and operational tactics are executed by providing technical support for existing operations and future expansion across multiple facilities within their region.
The REM will report to the Business Environmental Leader for MEU (Middle Europe) through the EU Environmental Assurance and Protection team.
The REM will also partner with the operations leadership teams to execute company environmental procedures and ensure compliance with all applicable specific country, state/province, region and local regulations. Utilizing risk assessments and compliance evaluations, this individual will lead site specific continuous improvement initiatives to minimize environmental aspects and impacts and communicate and implement best practices. This role entails up to 50% travel to multiple sites across the countries listed above.
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.
- Manage and execute multi-site responsibilities to comply with air emissions, stormwater, waste, wastewater and other environmental related laws, regulations and permits. This includes required Country, State/Province and local reporting.
- Develop and maintain relationships with business partners to support their success in environmental compliance, performance and sustainability initiatives.
- Participate in the development, introduction, control, improvement and application of environmental management control systems, procedures, processes and products.
- Measure and analyze sites' performance against published requirements in environmental policies. For all deficiencies, identify a plan for the site to implement and fix all identified deficiencies.
- Cooperate in contacts with the authorities and in the implementation of any notification, permission and approval procedures according to environmental law (water / waste water, pollution control, waste).
- Participate in the annual data collection and reporting (internal, external) as well as controls (measurements, reviews) on environmentally relevant issues.
- Manage environmental risk program(s) and/or projects, where the risk is defined, but the business problem and solution may not be defined.
- Be the environmental subject matter expert for your area; up to date on related industry trends (e.g., changing regulations, innovations in risk mitigation, testing mechanisms), knowing how to apply them across teams, and when not to.
- Drive goal and regulation-based control outcomes and/or risk reduction, informing/helping to establish mechanisms where applicable to bring risk within tolerance levels.
- Manage overall schedules for your environmental risk mitigation projects, overcome issues, and keep the scope of effort under control.
A day in the life
Every day will be different. You will be visiting our MEU locations, engaging with the local teams and ensuring the sites and the business as a whole are set up to deliver effective environmental compliance. You could be working with our Legal Team to engage a Regulator or helping sites deliver environmental training. The ability to flex is essential in this role, as priorities will change on an almost daily basis and as a team, we need to be able to respond accordingly.
- Bachelor's degree in civil, chemical or environmental engineering or related field.
- Experience in serving as an environmental technical resource, program specialist, or program manager.
- English written and verbal communication skills, including comfortable interfacing with site and regional leaders.
- In depth knowledge of EU, country and region-specific environmental regulation.
- Experience in engaging with Regulatory Agencies in permit applications.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in warehouse operations and logistics is preferred.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and the use of pivot tables and the development of charts and graphics.
- Detailed-minded and technically-oriented to comfortably deep dive with engineering teams to understand operations process for environmental risk assessment.
- Experience managing change in multiple site environments and the ability to influence peers and superiors.