Regional Environmental Engineer - Data Center Permitting

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 111,000 - 186,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

AWS Environmental, part of Amazon, leads regional environmental permitting and compliance for data centers and related facilities, shaping strategies for site development and regulatory engagements across the US. The role emphasizes due diligence, permit execution, and cross-functional collaboration with Real Estate, Legal, Risk, and Design teams.

The successful candidate will manage multi-project environments, ensuring compliance with federal/state environmental rules, particularly CWA 404 and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of project management in data centers or comparable critical infrastructure experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field.
• Experience delivering multi-media environmental due diligence, permitting, and compliance projects with specific expertise in CWA 404 and NPDES permitting, groundwater protection, wastewater discharge, and natural and cultural resource evaluations.
• Knowledge of critical data center equipment.
• Experience managing and/or supporting community/public interactions.

Responsibilities

• Assess environmental risks and requirements and develop mitigations and strategies to support data center siting and development strategies and site-specific project delivery.
• Lead technical aspects of environmental due diligence, including Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments, regulatory and permitting evaluations, natural, biological and cultural resource evaluations, and noise assessments.
• Deliver environmental permits, approvals, and plans to enable on-time and compliant construction and operations for new data center locations and expansion of existing sites.
• Communicate environmental requirements, risks, and activities to internal and external project partners.
• Coordinate with partner teams including Real Estate, Design, Water, Legal, Risk, Power, and others to optimize site designs to consider natural resource or operational constraints.
• Develop site development and permitting strategies that are environmentally responsible and sustainable while meeting project timelines.
• Lead regulatory agency interactions and negotiations in support of environmental permit acquisition and regional development strategies.
• Develop, manage and track metrics to evaluate project success

Skills

MS Excel

MS Word

Windows OS

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

MS Office

Job description

AWS Environmental, part of Amazon, leads regional environmental permitting and compliance for data centers and related facilities, shaping strategies for site development and regulatory engagements across the US. The role emphasizes due diligence, permit execution, and cross-functional collaboration with Real Estate, Legal, Risk, and Design teams.

The successful candidate will manage multi-project environments, ensuring compliance with federal/state environmental rules, particularly CWA 404 and