Regional Environmental Manager, Environmental Assurance and Protection Team – Amazon

This role sits inside Amazon’s Environmental Assurance and Protection (EAP) field team, the group responsible for making sure Amazon’s operational sites — fulfilment centres, delivery stations, sort centres and similar facilities across a region — meet environmental regulatory requirements and the company’s own internal standards. A Regional Environmental Manager owns that oversight across a cluster of sites rather than a single building, which means the job is as much about building a repeatable system as it is about solving problems at any one location.

Day to day, expect a mix of site audits and inspections, tracking permits and regulatory filings, investigating and closing out environmental incidents (spills, waste handling issues, emissions concerns), and coaching site operations teams on what good practice looks like so problems get caught before they become compliance breaches. There’s a reporting and documentation layer too: keeping records audit-ready and feeding data up to regional and global EAP leadership. The role requires regular travel between sites within the region.

It suits someone who has worked in EHS (environment, health and safety), environmental compliance, or operational risk within a large logistics, manufacturing or industrial network, and who is comfortable being the person who has to say no to a shortcut when it matters. Amazon’s operations network is large and moves fast, so the role rewards people who can build practical, scalable processes rather than one-off fixes, and who can influence site managers and operations leaders without direct authority over them.

The appeal is scope and impact: a single improvement to how a site handles waste segregation or spill response, once standardised, can be rolled out across every site in the region — which gives this role leverage well beyond what the title alone suggests.

A Regional Environmental Manager protects Amazon from the real operational and reputational cost of environmental non-compliance across a whole cluster of sites, not just one building. A missed permit renewal, a mishandled waste stream, or an unreported spill can trigger regulatory fines, forced site shutdowns, or long-running remediation costs, any of which disrupts the delivery network that the wider business depends on. Because this role sits at the regional level, the standards and audit practices it sets get applied consistently across every site in scope, which means a single process improvement compounds across the whole region rather than staying local to one facility. It also protects the brand: environmental incidents at a company the size of Amazon draw outside scrutiny quickly, and a strong EAP function is part of what keeps that risk contained. Beyond pure risk reduction, the role feeds data and findings upward to regional and global environmental leadership, which shapes how Amazon invests in environmental infrastructure and training going forward, giving this role a say in decisions that outlast any single site visit.

Taking on a regional EAP role at Amazon builds a specific and increasingly valuable skill set: the ability to run environmental compliance programmes at scale across a network of industrial sites, rather than managing compliance for a single location. That distinction matters a lot to future employers, because scaling a standard across dozens of sites with different local regulations and different site cultures is a materially harder skill than enforcing a standard in one place, and it's the kind of experience that logistics, manufacturing and retail companies actively look for in senior EHS and operations risk hires. The role also builds influence skills that transfer well beyond environmental work specifically — getting site operations managers, who are judged on throughput and cost, to prioritise environmental process changes requires genuine persuasion and credibility, not just a compliance mandate. Working inside Amazon's operations network exposes someone to logistics at a scale most environmental professionals never see, and that scale experience tends to open doors to senior EHS, sustainability or operational risk roles at other large employers afterward. For someone who wants to move toward regional or global environmental leadership, or into broader operational risk and governance roles, this position offers a credible, well-regarded stepping stone, since it combines genuine regulatory expertise with cross-functional influence and reporting exposure to senior leadership.

• Experience in environmental compliance, EHS, or environmental health and safety within an industrial, logistics or manufacturing network
• Working knowledge of environmental regulations and permitting relevant to large operational facilities
• Experience conducting site audits, inspections, or compliance reviews
• Comfort investigating incidents and driving corrective action plans to closure
• Strong written reporting skills for regulatory and internal documentation
• Ability to travel regularly between sites within the assigned region
• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, engineering, occupational health, or a related field
• Ability to influence site operations teams without formal authority over them