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Description

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.

The AWS Environmental team is an expanding and dynamic team that is critical to enabling AWS’s growth around the world, as well as ensuring compliance of AWS’s global operations, including physical data centers, as well as other AWS facilities, customer-facing enterprises and products.

We are searching for a Regional Environmental Manager (REM) to lead the environmental team in the Asia Pacific region responsible for environmental compliance and improvement for Amazon Web Services (AWS) operational data centers in the Asia Pacific Region. The Regional Environmental team develops standards and policies to support regulatory compliance and provides environmental compliance guidance for regional operations and construction teams. The REM is a key member of the Global Environmental leadership team and will drive global environmental strategy, complete environmental performance analysis, establish and monitor metrics, and guide the teams in implementing Amazon environmental standards. The REM will work with internal and external partners including contractors, consultants, design, construction, operations and other key stakeholders. This position is based in Sydney and will require domestic and international travel.

Key job responsibilities

• Directly manage multiple Regional Environmental Engineers and Regional Environmental Managers across regions.

• Ultimate responsibility for the management of environmental compliance activities and completion of tasks in APAC.

• Develop and influence new and existing regional and global strategy.

• Sets strategic direction for the regional environmental teams, environmental programs, operations, and construction teams.

• Provide technical support and execute tactical compliance tasks across regions.

• Perform complex technical research or regulatory analysis on customer regulatory compliance needs (e.g., emission source changes triggering new compliance obligations) where problem and process to solve is not clearly defined.

• Document issues in standard reporting tools.

• Identify and drive implementation of improvement opportunities.

• Execute project-specific regulatory/agency engagement and negotiation.

• Execute global programs where business strategy is not defined and deliver with complete independence.

• Be recognized regionally as a SME amongst customers and business partners.

• Expert understanding of APAC regulations and global standards in addition to Amazon policy.

• Determines where to simplify or extend solutions for the best outcomes, driving sharing of best practices.

• Able to manage complex problems, decisions, and escalations to mitigate long-term risks. Finding paths forward in difficult situations and able to make trade-offs: short vs. long-term needs.

• Hire, manage performance, coach and promote direct reports and employees.

About the team

The Environmental team has responsibility for architecting and implementing AWS’s global environmental programs. This includes defining and implementing risk and compliance systems and driving their continuous improvement; setting and refining global policies and procedures; overseeing the development of standards, tools, auditing and metrics, and employee training; ensuring effective engagement of environmental teams on global initiatives, including those that are part of Amazon’s ambitious sustainability goals; providing specialist expertise; and engaging with all AWS business units to provide scalable and effective environmental compliance strategies that support current and future business objectives while ensuring employee compliance with environmental regulations.

About AWS

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

Work/Life Balance

We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or a related field.

• Several years of experience as an environmental technical resource, or regulatory compliance specialist managing complex environmental compliance initiatives and programs across functional teams, building processes that scale globally in a fast paced, growing organization.

• Several years of experience managing globally distributed/dispersed teams in Asia

• Several years of experience in managing site-level and multi-site level technical environmental compliance in Asia

• Able to travel at least 25% as required

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in science, engineering or a related field.

• Experience in environmental management in cloud-based infrastructure companies preferred.

• Several years of experience in multinational company environmental program development, deployment, implementation and verification.

• Several years of experience in developing and maintaining environmental management systems.

• Experience implementing lean principles and process improvements across multiple organizations and countries.

• Excellent communication skills, strong relationship builder, solid influencing and negotiation skills, and the ability to coach at multiple levels.

• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated problem solving ability.

Acknowledgement of country:

In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

IDE statement:

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes.