Our team is seeking a Regional Environmental Manager (REM) who will lead and drive environmental operational excellence across Amazon BUs in the Southeast Region. The REM will be responsible for ensuring environmental strategy and operational tactics are executed by providing technical support for existing operations and future expansion across the US. This role is based at ATL11 and will be based in Atlanta. The REM will travel up to 50%.

Key job responsibilities
- Utilize risk assessments and compliance evaluations, to lead continuous improvement initiatives to minimize environmental aspects and impacts and communicate and implement best practices.
- Manage and execute multi-site responsibilities to comply with air emissions, storm-water, waste, wastewater and other environmental related laws, regulations and permits, which includes required Federal, State and local reporting such as USEPA, EPCRA/SARA, Form R, and Tier II, state mandated permit reporting, and other required reporting as needed
- Develop and maintain relationships with business partners to support their success in environmental compliance, performance and sustainability initiatives
- Drive an environmentally responsible culture within the organization
- Manage and execute business conformance with Amazon Environmental policies through effective execution of Amazon Operational Environmental Procedures
- Develop relevant environmental procedures as dictated by business and regulatory needs
- Provide strategic environmental support and regulatory review for future business growth and expansion
- Partner with operations, special projects and support teams in supporting the change management process
- With continual scaling of organization, will grow to manage a team to successfully support business needs
- Facilitate root cause analyses for all environmental incidents and recommend appropriate corrective actions for network implementation
- Conduct risk assessments and audits as necessary.
- Measure and analyze sites’ performance against requirements and policies

A day in the life
You will report through the Amazon Environmental Assurance & Protection (EAP) team to partner with the operations leadership teams to execute company environmental procedures and ensure compliance with all applicable country/location specific Federal, State/Provincial and local laws & regulations. Utilizing risk assessments and compliance evaluations, you will lead continuous improvement initiatives to minimize environmental impacts, and communicate and implement best practices.

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.

- 5+ years of directly managing and responsible for multiple large projects experience
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience and strong technical background in relevant fields of automated or non-automated material handling equipment

- Master's degree in engineering, mechanical, operations, supply chain, business administration, or equivalent STEM field
- Experience in Lean Management, Six Sigma and other operations engineer tools

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