Regional Environmental Manager, Environmental Assurance and Protection, EAP

Amazons Worldwide Environmental Assurance and Protection (EAP) team is responsible for ensuring that Amazons global operation is the benchmark for environmental excellence across all similar industries. EAP transforms environmental regulatory compliance into a zero-defect process through scalable sustainable and technology-enabled solutions that protect the business our communities and the environment.

The Regional Environmental Manager EAP leads a team of field environmental managers responsible for driving regulatory compliance across the sites in their region. This leader translates the organizations environmental compliance plans into regional execution sets priorities for their team and holds site and operations partners accountable to compliance milestones through regular program controllership mechanisms. They develop the people on their team build bench strength through hiring and coaching and embed environmental compliance into the day-to-day operating rhythm of the sites they support.

The ideal candidate brings strong expertise in environmental regulatory compliance combined with the people leadership capability to grow and direct a field team. They communicate technical compliance requirements clearly to site leaders operations partners and legal stakeholders and use data and business intelligence to find gaps prioritize fixes and improve conformance across their region.

This role requires sound independent judgment comfort with ambiguity and the ability to run the right mechanisms and manage team priorities to meet compliance objectives in a dynamic high-growth operations environment. If you are motivated by solving regulatory problems in the field and building a strong environmental compliance team this role is for you.

Key job responsibilities
- Drive environmental regulatory compliance across the sites in your region aligning your teams priorities to the organizations compliance plans and the OP1 OP2 and quarterly planning cycles.
- Translate media-specific compliance programs and field execution frameworks into regional execution adapting them to the sites and conditions you support.
- Manage your teams resource allocation and input to annual operating plans balancing immediate compliance obligations against the work needed to build durable site capability.
- Operate program controllership mechanisms that drive speed quality and accountability across your team and site partners surfacing and mitigating compliance risk early.
- Communicate compliance status risks and escalations clearly and concisely to senior leaders and partners across Operations Legal Finance and Technology.
- Partner with Amazon Legal state and local regulators environmental consultants and technology teams to resolve compliance barriers at the regional and site level and reduce manual effort in compliance execution.
- Track your region against KPI and compliance metric frameworks using the data to find gaps prioritize fixes and report milestone and regulatory posture across your sites.
- Lead the talent management lifecycle for your team including hiring onboarding and structured development planning that builds depth and capability.
- Oversee work performed by third-party contractors consultants and inspection vendors in your region holding them accountable to milestones and quality standards through structured audit and governance mechanisms.
- Exercise sound independent judgment in an ambiguous high-stakes regulatory environment choosing the right mechanisms and team priorities to deliver compliance outcomes.
- Embed environmental compliance into the day-to-day operating rhythm of the sites you support.
- Travel expected up to 25-50% of the time.

A day in the life
This role will be based in the United States and will report to the Business Environmental Leader. Travel to Amazon sites within the region is expected up to 50% of the time and 5 days/week in office. The REM will partner with the operations leadership teams to execute company environmental procedures and ensure compliance with all applicable specific Federal State and Local regulations. The REM will deliver a strategy for execution supported by the EAP leadership team.

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 conducting workplace risk investigations experience
- Experience building and managing a high-performing team of direct reports
- Experience collecting analyzing and utilizing data to drive process and system improvements
- Bachelors degree in Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) or related field

- Experience managing large teams across multiple locations and languages
- Experience developing and implementing environmental compliance programs including regulated waste water and air regulations in accordance with applicable laws
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt certification
- Experience with Microsoft Office including Outlook Word and Excel
- 7 years of experience conducting workplace environmental or risk investigations
- Masters degree in Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) or related field

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status disability or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees supervisors and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees supervisors and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal state and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies exercise sound judgment effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism and safeguard business operations and the Companys reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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 and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Anaheim - 133300.00 - 180300.00 USD annually
USA CA Burbank - 133300.00 - 180300.00 USD annually
USA CA Culver City - 133300.00 - 180300.00 USD annually
USA CA Torrance - 133300.00 - 180300.00 USD annually