Environmental Compliance Manager (12 Month FTC), Environmental Assurance and Protection
Job ID: | Amazon Road Transport Spain, S.L.U.
Our team is seeking an Environmental Compliance Manager who will support the Spain Environmental Assurance and Protection (EAP) team across all business lines, and lead one business line within Spain. The role is responsible for ensuring strategy and operational tactics are executed by providing technical support for existing operations and future expansion across multiple facilities within the region. The Environmental Compliance Manager will report to the Country Leader for Spain as part of the SEU and the EU EAP team.
The Environmental Compliance Manager will partner with 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, the individual will lead site-specific continuous improvement initiatives to minimize environmental aspects and impacts, and communicate and implement best practices.
This role requires 50% travel to multiple sites across Spain.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage and execute multi-site responsibilities to comply with air emissions, stormwater, waste, wastewater, and other environmental-related laws, regulations, and permits, including required country, state/province, and local reporting.
- Develop and maintain relationships with business partners to support their success in environmental compliance, performance, and sustainability initiatives.
- 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 for the site to implement and fix all identified deficiencies.
- Cooperate with authorities and in the implementation of any notification, permission, and approval procedures according to environmental law (water/wastewater, pollution control, waste).
- Participate in the annual data collection and reporting (internal, external) as well as controls (measurements, reviews) on environmentally relevant issues.
- Manage environmental risk program(s) and/or projects, where the risk is defined, but the business problem and solution may not be defined.
- Serve as the environmental subject matter expert for your area; stay up-to-date on related industry trends (e.g., changing regulations, innovations in risk mitigation, testing mechanisms), knowing how to apply them across teams, and when not to.
- Drive goal and regulation-based control outcomes and/or risk reduction, informing or helping to establish mechanisms where applicable to bring risk within tolerance levels.
- Manage overall schedules for environmental risk mitigation projects, overcome issues, and keep the scope of effort under control.
A Day in the Life
Every day will be different. You will be visiting our Spain locations, engaging with local teams, and ensuring the sites and the business as a whole are set up to deliver effective environmental compliance. You may work with our Legal Team to engage a regulator or help sites deliver environmental training. Flexibility is essential, as priorities can change almost daily, and the team must respond accordingly.
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
- Experience in compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent.
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, SharePoint, and PowerPoint).
- Experience using in-depth knowledge of EU environmental regulations, through to country and local environmental regulations, specifically in Spain.
- A completed Bachelor’s degree in engineering (civil, chemical, environmental), environmental science, sustainability, environmental management, natural sciences, or another relevant discipline.
- 4+ years of compliance, audit, or risk management experience.
- Experience diving deep with multiple stakeholders (engineering, legal, public policy, procurement, safety) to understand operations processes.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing change in multiple site environments and the ability to influence peers and superiors.
- Master's Degree in civil, chemical, or environmental engineering or related field of engineering or science study.
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Agile, or equivalent certification.
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