Water Solutions Manager, AWS EMEA Energy & Water Team

Job ID: 3066155 | Amazon Data Services UK Limited

This is available in London, Dublin, Zaragoza, Madrid, and Frankfurt.

Overview

Amazon has an opening for a Water Solutions Manager (WSM) to support scaling and growth across our Data Centre network. The WSM drives the water supply strategy and discharge requirements for new sites. The WSM will work to influence onsite design solutions to ensure that water chemistry, treatment and infrastructure are appropriate for on-site needs. This requires multidisciplinary support to design engineering, construction, operations, and maintenance for our global fleet of data centres.

You will define both prescriptive and performance-based design approaches to help define, design, detail, and document the various water needs that our facilities require to ensure safe drinking waters for site staff and water treatment plant sufficiency for industrial use and discharge compliance with environmental regulators.

Key responsibilities

• Water feasibility and due diligence to determine off site supply and discharge infrastructure; design review for onsite water management.
• Creation of project scope, business case and infrastructure requirements, develop contract and draft documentation, request for proposals, and capital requests.
• Project management for capital water infrastructure projects encompassing consultant management for site solution development and strategy formulation, solution design and implementation.
• Own project scope, timeline, and budgets for capital water infrastructure projects, ensuring coordination from conception to completion.
• Support continuous process improvement through leading workflow updates, documenting and implementing lessons learned, and sharing knowledge across delivery teams to improve efficiency across EMEA.
• Regularly report to senior leadership on status of key project metrics vs. commitments.
• Create detailed planning packs to build scalable and future-proof off-site infrastructure.
• Demonstrate deep understanding of water infrastructure construction processes across the EMEA region.
• Program management, risk mitigation and status reporting to management and internal customers.

A day in the life

• Work with third party design vendors to review concept designs and designs in progress to ensure they meet established design standards, local code requirements, and requirements of relevant authorities.
• Ensure prior to PFHO that water systems have been disinfected to national and statutory requirements; water meters are installed, commissioned and calibrated correctly; water treatment plant is commissioned and delivering required outputs (flow/quality).
• Maintain discharges below discharge permit conditions.
• Coordinate with construction, commissioning, and risk management teams to answer RFI and value engineering queries.
• Prepare early stage water-related “Owners Requirements” documentation and work with Procurement teams to create a mechanism via RFQ for Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) in the Specialist Water Contractor (SWC) scope.

About the team

ABOUT AWS:

Diverse Experiences: Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications, we encourage you to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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Work/Life Balance: We value work-life harmony and strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. AWS AIS supports data centers and the cloud infrastructure customers rely on.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate across AWS to deliver high safety and security standards while maintaining capacity at a low cost for customers. You’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

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Mentorship and Career Growth: We continually raise our performance bar and provide knowledge-sharing, mentorship and resources to help you develop professionally.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree and 5-12+ years of water resources, treatment, infrastructure management, and feasibility project experience.
• Experience in stakeholder management including regulators, water utilities, environmental agencies, health departments, and contractors.
• Ability to assess early-stage feasibility and develop an investment business case proposal to secure internal funding for offsite water reinforcement projects.
• Experience in construction management and/or program management in the water and environmental infrastructure industry.
• Comprehensive knowledge of water and environmental sectors, including their interfaces, with design and delivery experience collaborating with telecom construction contractors and vendors.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex project priorities and dependencies.
• Proficiency with MS Office and project management tools.
• Exceptional analytical, quantitative, communication, and presentation skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Experience in managing complex technology infrastructure projects.
• Experience with multiple project management methodologies.
• Excellent multi-tasking and prioritisation skills.
• Extensive experience with contractual and procurement methodologies (procurement, D&B, DBO, etc.) aligned with water utilities, environmental agencies (EU) or 3rd party contractors.
• Experience delivering water infrastructure projects with multiple stakeholders across Europe, Middle East & Africa.
• Fluency in a second European language (e.g., German, French, Italian, Spanish).

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