Amazon Web Services (AWS) hiring Enviro PM - EMS & Audits, DCC Communities in Arlington, Virginia, United States | LinkedIn (2024)

DescriptionAWS 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. Amazon is looking for a talented and self-motivated Environmental Management System (EMS) Program Manager to support Amazon Web Services (AWS), a dynamic and rapidly growing business within Amazon.com. AWS is at the forefront of the cloud computing and service industry, providing IT infrastructure services such as on-demand compute capacity, storage, content delivery, database services, browsers and more. AWS is committed to running our business in the most environmentally friendly way possible, and our scale allows us to achieve higher resource utilization and energy efficiency than the typical on-premises data center. 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 successful candidate will join the AWS Environmental team, 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. The Environmental team has responsibility for building and implementing AWS’s global environmental programs. We are searching for a Program Manager to partner with internal teams in the field and corporate-levels to serve as the central technical resource to drive highest level of data center environmental compliance management systems on behalf of our customers demand for ISO 14001 EMS (Environmental Management System). An EMS is a set of processes and technologies/tools that collectively through data driven decisions, enable the Enviro Team, both in the field and programs, to systematically and continually, over time, reduce its environmental impacts and increase its program scalability throughout all data centers in the field, its operating effectiveness and efficiency. The successful candidate will have a results-oriented approach, strong analytical skill set, and proven ability to independently lead complex projects across multiple teams. You will be expected to represent the AWS Environmental team internally as well as to external groups, including vendors, customers, and policy makers. You will be responsible for developing, implementing and standardizing our EMS programs globally as well as developing metrics and reporting progress to internal stakeholders. The optimal candidate is a high-judgment, EMS subject matter expert with a proven track record of success building and improving EMS. This individual will focus on implementing programs that ensure we meet our regulatory and sustainability obligations globally while also driving continuous improvements in our EMS program.

Key job responsibilities

• Uses expertise and judgement to define region and/or global EMS and compliance goals and design a long-term risk mitigating strategies in collaboration with field and programmatic internal and external stakeholders in multiple countries regionally and globally.
• Leads independently with limited guidance.
• Manages execution of tactical and strategic objectives and goals throughout the organization to enable an EMS. Collaborate closely with internal Enviro and InfraOps teams to conduct pro-active identify risks in the field and programs, facilitate stakeholder reviews, implement short term mitigations, and executing long-term strategies and programs including technical and tactical support for field or data center specific projects.
• Establishes workflows, service level agreements (SLAs), and operational excellence mechanisms.
• Ensure work outcomes are auditable, decisions are data driven and work quality measurable.
• Participate in 1-3 year strategic initiatives and long term planning regionally and globally.
• Writes effective communications.
• Actively learns to influence and negotiate priorities.
• Determines where to simplify or extend solutions for the best outcomes. Drives sharing of best practices.
• Able to manage complex problems, decisions, and escalations to mitigate long-term risks. Finds path forward in difficult situations. Makes trade-offs: short vs. long-term needs.

About The TeamAmazon 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. Amazon 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. 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. 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. 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. The AWS Environmental (Enviro) 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. The Enviro team has responsibility for architecting and implementing AWS’s global environmental programs. This includes defining and implementing risk management and compliance systems and driving their continuous improvement; setting and refining global policies and procedures; overseeing the development of standards, technology for Environmental Management Systems, auditing and metrics, and employee training; ensuring effective engagement by 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 risk management strategies that support current and future business objectives while ensuring compliance with environmental regulations.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience serving as a regional and/or global environmental management systems technical resource managing complex environmental compliance initiatives and programs across functional teams, building processes that scale globally in a fast paced, growing organization including: compliance obligations, risk assessments, performance indicators, environmental controls, emergency preparedness and response plans, training, internal and external audits, environmental incidents, and continual improvements.
• 8+ years of experience managing regionally distributed/dispersed teams
• 5+ years of experience in managing field/site-level and multi-site level technical EMS and environmental compliance regionally
• 5+ years of experience managing deployment and implementation of environmental management information systems (EMIS Including AI) and technology (i.e Gensuite, AUSTIN, Salesforce, Enablon)

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in science, engineering or a related field
• Experience in regional and/or global EMS and compliance management in cloud-based infrastructure companies preferred
• 10+ years of experience in multinational company EMS and compliance program development, deployment, implementation and verification.
• 10+ years of experience in developing and maintaining multisite EMS.
• 10+ years of experience developing and managing environmental management information systems (EMIS)
• 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.

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, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.

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Job ID: A2645543