Our team is seeking a Regional Environmental Engineer (REE) who will lead and drive environmental operational excellence across all business units in Italy.
They will also provide technical support at our existing operations and future expansion across Italy.
This role will report to the SEU Environmental Leader through the EU Environmental Assurance and Protection team.
The REE will partner with the operations leadership teams to execute company environmental procedures and ensure compliance with all applicable specific country, state/province, region and local regulations.
Utilizing risk assessments and compliance evaluations, this individual will lead business units specific continuous improvement initiatives to minimize environmental aspects and impacts and communicate and implement best practices.
They must be able to lead a team, to influence broadly to ensure success for business support.
This role entails 50% travel to multiple sites across Italy.
Responsibilities: • Manage and execute multi-site responsibilities to comply with air emissions, storm water, waste, wastewater, biodiversity and other environmental related laws, regulations and permits.
This includes required Country, State/Province and local reporting • Participate in the development, introduction, control, improvement and application of environmental management control systems, procedures, processes and products • Measure and analyze sites' performance against published requirements in environmental policies.
For all deficiencies, identify a plan to implement and fix all identified deficiencies • Cooperate in contacts with the authorities and in the implementation of any notification, permission and approval procedures according to environmental law (water / waste water, pollution control, waste) • Participate in the annual data collection and reporting (internal, external) as well as controls (measurements, reviews) on environmentally relevant issues Key job responsibilities - Ensure work performed by contractors, consultants, and employees is completed in accordance with Amazon standards.
- Support the development of environmental metrics to measure, monitor and forecast performance.
- Conduct thorough and accurate environmental audits to drive continuous improvement.
- Prioritize and manage multiple technically complex assignments concurrently.
- Represent Amazon at appropriate levels with governmental agencies and throughout the company.
- Build collaborative relationships with various stakeholders to ensure risks are identified early and managed appropriately.
- Submit time critical reports to various governmental agencies.
- Complete thorough and accurate environmental incident investigations and associated regulatory reports and develop appropriate corrective actions.
A day in the life Every day will be different.
You will be performing compliance monitoring in our Last Mile locations, engaging with your senior stakeholders and ensuring the sites and the business as a whole are set up to deliver effective environmental compliance.
You could be working with our Legal Team to engage a Regulator or helping sites deliver environmental training.
The ability to flex is essential in this role, as priorities will change on an almost daily basis and as a team, we need to be able to respond accordingly.
About the team The SEU EAP team is a new organisation for the EU.
We have an exciting opportunity to expand and ensure we have more local expertise across the EU.
This is a chance to really make your mark in your given country and demonstrate how environmental compliance can make a positive impact to the business.
The wider team are family.
We all support each other and no query is too much trouble - everyone pitches in to help.
• A completed Bachelor's Degree in civil, chemical or environmental engineering or related field of engineering study • Experience serving as an environmental technical resource, program specialist, or program manager • Excellent English and Italian written and verbal communication skills, including comfortable interfacing with site and regional leaders • In depth knowledge of EU, country and region specific • Experience in engaging with Regulatory Agencies in permit applications • Broad knowledge of EU environmental regulations • Experience in warehouse operations and logistics is preferred • Proficient in Microsoft Office and the use of pivot tables and the development of charts and graphics • Ability to manage multiple sites/remotely • Must be detailed minded and technically oriented to comfortably deep dive with engineering teams to understand operations process for environmental risk assessment.
• Experience managing change in multiple site environments and the ability to influence peers and superiors Amazon is an equal opportunities employer.
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