Senior Manufacturing Environmental Program Manager, AWS Environmental Team
About The Position
MOTO is the environmental organization within AWS Infrastructure Services, responsible for ensuring AWS grows responsibly with environmental integrity throughout the infrastructure lifecycle. This role focuses on environmental site development, identifying and clearing environmental paths for new AWS facilities. The team collaborates with AWS Real Estate, Land Use, Legal, Risk, Water, Design, and Public Policy groups to advance projects from initial screening to construction readiness. They engage with regulatory agencies, local planning authorities, and community stakeholders to secure approvals and build relationships. This is a growing team in a priority region, offering ownership, meaningful work on consequential projects, and direct impact on AWS infrastructure growth. As a Sr. Regional Environmental Engineer, you will be the environmental lead for site selection, land acquisition, and greenfield entitlements across multiple global regions. Your work will encompass environmental due diligence, greenfield approvals and permitting, real estate support, and stakeholder coordination. You will serve as the go-to environmental expert for Real Estate, Land Use, Legal, Risk, and Design teams from site identification through permit acquisition. While operations and compliance responsibilities exist, the primary focus is enabling responsible, on-time site development to fuel AWS infrastructure growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in safety, environmental, or equivalent
- Experience engaging with regulatory agencies in permit applications or equivalent
- Proven track record supporting real estate acquisitions with environmental risk assessments and transaction support
- Multi-media permitting experience — including CWA Section 404, NPDES, stormwater, and natural resource permits
- Broad working knowledge of environmental regulations as they apply to site development and land use
Nice To Haves
- Experience with large scale infrastructure
- Experience in environmental compliance and permitting, waste management, contractual, regulatory, and liability assessments, environmental permit evaluations and applications, EIAs and water discharge requirements
- Experience in stakeholder and communication management
- Background supporting real estate transactions with environmental due diligence and risk advisory
Responsibilities
- Lead Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments for greenfield and brownfield candidate sites.
- Evaluate environmental constraints, liabilities, and fatal flaws that could impact real estate acquisitions or development timelines.
- Conduct natural, biological, cultural, and wetland resource evaluations as part of site screening.
- Develop clear environmental risk profiles to aid in smart, fast site selection decisions.
- Support real estate negotiations with environmental findings, risk summaries, and liability assessments.
- Lead noise assessments and other site-specific technical evaluations to inform siting decisions.
- Develop and execute greenfield entitlement strategies covering zoning, land use, and environmental permits.
- Lead multi-media permitting — air, water, waste, and natural resources — for new site development.
- Drive regulatory agency engagement and negotiations to secure greenfield approvals on schedule.
- Manage wetland delineations, threatened and endangered species surveys, and cultural resource assessments.
- Deliver the permits and approvals that enable on-time construction starts.
- Support public hearings and community engagement processes as part of greenfield approval workflows.
- Serve as the environmental subject matter expert for Real Estate and Land Use teams throughout site acquisition.
- Evaluate environmental conditions that affect property value, development timelines, and transactional risk.
- Develop comprehensive environmental due diligence packages for real estate transactions.
- Advise on environmental covenants, deed restrictions, and institutional controls.
- Coordinate with Legal and Risk teams on environmental liability allocation in purchase agreements.
- Support land use entitlement processes with environmental data, analysis, and technical documentation.
- Partner across Real Estate, Legal, Risk, Water, Design, Public Policy, and Construction to move projects forward.
- Represent AWS in conversations with regulatory agencies, local planning authorities, and community stakeholders.
- Communicate environmental risks, constraints, and timing clearly to development project teams.
- Manage external consultants and contractors performing environmental field work.
- Develop compliance frameworks for handoff from development to operations teams as new sites approach readiness.
- Support environmental program development for facilities nearing operational launch.
- Ensure environmental conditions of approval are clearly documented and properly transitioned to the operations team.
Benefits
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parental leave
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
