Environmental Engineer, AWS Environmental

Environmental Engineer, AWS Environmental

Job ID: 3119238 | Amazon Data Services Spain, S.L.

AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) 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, environmental experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for environmental, 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.

For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud computing platform. What is cloud computing? Cloud computing is the on‑demand delivery of IT resources over the Internet.

In 2019, Amazon announced The Climate Pledge, which includes our commitment to power our operations with 100% renewable energy by 2025, on the path to achieving net zero carbon across our businesses by 2040. To learn more about AWS, visit https://aws.amazon.com and https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/environment/the-cloud.

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 and other AWS facilities, customer‑facing enterprises and products. The Environmental team has responsibility for developing and implementing AWS’s global environmental programs.

We are seeking an Environmental Engineer to support AWS environmental compliance in Spain. The environmental engineer will ensure standards and policies support regulatory compliance, and they will provide appropriate environmental guidance to regional operations teams. The individual will support environmental performance analysis, reporting, monitor metrics and guide the operations teams in implementation of Amazon environmental procedures. The environmental engineer will work with internal and external partners that include government entities, contractors, consultants, design, construction, operations and other key stakeholders.

The Environmental Engineer must have excellent communication skills, local language skills, strong environmental regulatory knowledge, and demonstrated success in supporting roles for program development and management of complex and technical projects.

Key job responsibilities

- Assess and support compliance with local and national environmental regulations, contractual obligations, and Amazon policy.

- Play a key role in regional environmental programs by integrating with engineering, construction, and operation teams – drive an environmentally responsible culture within the organization while maintaining environmental management processes and external accreditation.

- Ensure work performed by contractors, consultants, and employees is completed in accordance with Amazon standards.

- Develop, analyze, and present environmental metrics, horizon scan for risk and effectively communicate insights to internal stakeholders.

- Submit time‑critical environmental reports to various governmental agencies.

- Complete thorough environmental investigations and associated regulatory reporting, including working with operations and necessary stakeholders to develop and implement appropriate corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).

Below you may find additional information about our team culture, benefits, mentorship and career growth, and why AWS is a great place to work.

Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor degree in environmental science, chemical or environmental engineering, or related field of study.

- 5+ years serving as an environmental technical resource, compliance specialist, program specialist, or program manager.

- Experience with regulatory assessments and managing environmental compliance related to areas such as air quality, water quality, waste management, and hazardous materials.

- Applied knowledge of local, national and European environmental laws, regulations, and standards related to areas such as air quality, water quality, waste management, and hazardous materials.

Preferred Qualifications

- Master’s degree or equivalent.

- A builder – not a maintainer in Environmental Program management.

- Ability to follow the plan, but dive into ambiguity to sort 'it out', think big, and apply solutions for long‑term improvement opportunities across a portfolio of projects.

- Use data and anecdotes to support your efforts and operate to a Plan, Do, Check, Act mentality.

- Strong analytical skills on leading and lagging data, with problem‑solving abilities that show results.

- Demonstrated understanding of environmental regulations for the jurisdiction.

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