About this role
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