Regional Environmental Manager, Environmental Assurance and Protection, EAP

Description

Amazon's Worldwide Environmental Assurance and Protection (EAP) team is responsible for ensuring that Amazon's 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 organization's 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 team's priorities to the organization's 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 team's 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.

Basic Qualifications

• 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

• Bachelor's degree in Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) or related field

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 conducting workplace risk investigations experience

• Master's 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 Company’s 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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .

USA, CA, Anaheim - 133,300.00 - 180,300.00 USD annually

USA, CA, Bloomington - 133,300.00 - 180,300.00 USD annually

USA, CA, Redlands - 133,300.00 - 180,300.00 USD annually

USA, CA, San Bernardino - 133,300.00 - 180,300.00 USD annually