Sr Sustainability Program Manager, GES Sustainability & Automation

** The role could be based in London, Barcelona or Munich **

The successful candidate will be a key leader in the Global Engineering Services Sustainability and Automation (GES S&A) Execution Planning team. They will be responsible for the execution planning, communication, and tracking of Sustainability initiatives to drive buildings-focused decarbonization, energy efficiency, and resource positivity (waste, water, biodiversity) for the First (CF), Middle (ATS), and/or Last (AMZL) Mile business units (BU) GES supports in the EU. The Sr Sustainability Execution Planning PM's focus will be to ensure connectivity between BU sustainability strategies and the implementation by GES Execution teams, foster thought leadership, and enhance data transparency and communication. This opportunity combines technical construction engineering disciplines, program planning, and project management. It requires a person who can demonstrate proven ability in planning, design, and project management, as well as experience in developing sustainability requirements for new buildings and enhancing existing buildings (ideally in the industrial or logistics sectors).

Would you like an opportunity to travel and work in multiple countries and cultures? The role will be based anywhere in Lux with up to 20%-30% of time on job travel, either domestically or to other EMEA countries.

Key job responsibilities

• Oversee construction engineering, planning, and design for Sustainability inclusions into new fulfillment center launches

• Track carbon footprint of new launches, perform engineering calculations when comparing design alternates, reviewing material/equipment specifications to assess energy usage, efficiency, carbon footprint impact, payback, etc.

• Maintain a program-level view to be able to drive decisions and direction while remaining informed about site-level progress.

• Provide visibility to leadership in challenging situations where tradeoffs have high opportunity cost.

• Liaising with the Project Management Office (PMO) for budget/labor planning, milestones reporting, and highlighting program-related risk.

• Prepare reports, specifications, and technical analyses to fully define the design requirements, equipment, and services required for Sustainability inclusions.

• Surveying FCs, developing and documenting procedures to audit FCs, providing evaluations and analyses, and recommending energy- and carbon-saving solutions to building mechanical systems and core-and-shell.

• Evaluate embodied and operational carbon of Build-to-Suit building designs, implement strategies to reduce carbon intensity of Amazon facilities.

• Serve as sustainability SME for internal/ external stakeholders and communicate with pre-construction managers, construction managers, general contractors, and design teams.

• Manage contractors, designers, and consultants for carbon modelling, carbon reduction, and/or energy-efficiency studies.

• Liaise and work with permitting authorities to support Sustainability inclusions in new and existing buildings.

• Facilitate and partner with stakeholder teams (Design and Construction, Global Sustainable Development, Asset Management, Finance, Construction Tech, Operations Sustainability, etc) on due diligence evaluations of new opportunities.

• Establish and operate the information systems necessary to track progress of the execution of Sustainability inclusions across New Build and Retrofit programs that the candidate is responsible for as part of the team.

• Collection of lessons learned and coaching of other team members on best practices

A day in the life

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor's degree

- Demonstrated experience in construction project management, real estate development, architecture/design with a sustainability focus.

- Program or project management experience.

- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements.

- Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership.

- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization, and building processes.

- Ability to deliver in ambiguity, work autonomously and multitask in an agile environment.

- Ability to collaborate across teams and drive agreement and alignment on complex topics.

- Experience delivering results in large, cross-functional initiatives.

- Ability to work effectively in a dynamic environment with changing priorities.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Advanced degree (MBA, MS, etc.)

- LEED Accredited Professional, PE, CEM, LFA, or other building professional accreditation - Experience reading and interpreting building engineering drawings.

- Demonstrated Green building experience and demonstrated industry-leading sustainability design and construction.

- Experience with European building regulations.

- French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, Afrikaans and Zulu are considered preferred qualifications.

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