Environmental Compliance Manager, Environmental Assurance and Protection

Our team is seeking an Environmental Compliance Manager who will support French Environmental Assurance and Protection (EAP) team across all business lines, and lead one business line within France.
This 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 their region.
The Environmental Compliance Manager will report to the Country Leader for France as part of the SEU and the EU EAP team.
The Environmental Compliance Manager will also partner with the 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, this individual will lead site specific continuous improvement initiatives to minimize environmental aspects and impacts and communicate and implement best practices.

This role entails up to 50% travel to multiple sites across France.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage and execute multi-site responsibilities to comply with air emissions, storm-water, waste, wastewater and other environmental related laws, regulations and permits. This includes 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 in contact with the authorities and in the implementation of any notification, permission and approval procedures according to environmental law (water / waste water, 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.

• Be the environmental subject matter expert for your area; 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/helping to establish mechanisms where applicable to bring risk within tolerance levels.

• Manage overall schedules for your 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 the local teams and ensuring the sites and the business as a whole are set up to deliver effective environmental compliance. You could be working with our Legal Team to engage a Regulator or helping sites deliver environmental training.
The ability to flex is essential in this role, as priorities will change on an almost daily basis and as a team, we need to be able to 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.

- Experience in compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent
- Experience handling confidential information
- A Bachelor degree or equivalent level of qualification in line with the European Qualifications Framework (EQF).
- Excellent English and French written and verbal communication skills

- Professional auditing qualification, or similar risk or compliance credentials
- Experience with SQL and Excel
- Experience in program requirements definition, together with data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements

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