Regional Enviro Engineer- Southwest US, AWS Environmental Team
Amazon· Operations, IT, & Support Engineering
Hybrid (Austin, TX), Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$111.3k - $186.1kfull-timePosted yesterday
About the role
Regional Environmental Engineer focusing on site due diligence, permitting, and environmental compliance for AWS datacenter development in the Southwest US. Partners with Real Estate, Legal, Risk, Design, Water, Public Policy, Construction, and external stakeholders to lead environmental due diligence, permitting strategies, and compliance throughout the development lifecycle.
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 detailed compliance plans for environmental permits.
- Develop, manage and track metrics to evaluate project success and compliance status.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in safety, environmental, or equivalent
- 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
- 7+ years experience conducting environmental due diligence for greenfield and brownfield sites, including Phase I and Phase II ESAs and support for investigative and remedial activities.
- At least 3 years of project or task management experience for environmental permitting and/or due diligence projects.
Skills
Required:Environmental due diligence (Phase I & II ESAs)Environmental permittingRegulatory agency negotiations
Benefits
- base salary with sign-on payments and RSUs
- comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D with option for Supplemental Life plans), EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parential leave
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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