Job Description
Are you excited to drive high-visibility construction and engineering solutions to help streamline Amazon"s building carbon footprint?
The Global Engineering Sustainability & Automation (GESA) team is looking for an experienced Civil/ Environmental/Structural Engineer with a passion for construction sustainability. The industry specialist will be responsible for research and assessment of scope 3 core and shell building materials. This person will work on completing the full life-cycle of a technology or strategy by overseeing integration, implementation, tracking and report out of the deployment on an Amazon Ops site and working on standardizing the adoption. As a specialist, you will communicate with cross-functional teams including design and construction, Amazon's central sustainability organization and outside stakeholders/ vendors. This role will contribute directly towards Amazon Ops buildings decarbonization glidepath.
In 2019, Amazon co-founded the Climate Pledge - a commitment to be net zero carbon across the businesses by 2040, a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement goal of 2050. Embodied Carbon reduction in Amazon's Ops buildings is of strategic importance to meet this ambitious goal.
Key job responsibilities
- Creating and modifying existing mechanism to track carbon throughout the project life-cycle.
- Understand design and construction of commercial mass timber buildings and concrete and steel large span structures.
- Proficient in scope 3 material quantity takeoffs, MAC, NPV and simple pay back analysis.
- Communication across various stakeholders to ensure alignment of goals and tasks to ensure the overall success of the program/ projects
- Strategic planning and forecasting to appraise performance and problem resolution related to emerging technologies in building construction that are not yet market ready
- Track and keep accountability for multiple deployments of complex projects simultaneously
- Work within various time constraints to meet critical business needs; we work fast and hard
- Critically examining the impact of Scope 3 building materials on Amazon Ops carbon glidepath
- Leading calls with vendors, reporting project status and following up to successfully closeout out Scope 3 tech assessment
- Influencing embodied carbon initiatives beyond their assigned region
- Interacting with external-facing sustainability initiatives
- Work with Engineering, Procurement, and Construction teams to collaboratively develop new design concepts
- Identify and manage project risks
- Ability to travel up to 25% at times
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Bellevue, WA |
| Industry | Retail |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1994 |
| Website | http://Amazon.com/militaryroles |
About Company
At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.
It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here
Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
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