Title: Environmental Project Manager
Duration: 12+ months contract (possible extension)
Location: Cupertino, CA(Hybrid)
Job Description:
At the company, every team works on the environment, and it impacts every decision we make. As we work to scale climate solutions across our entire value chain, teams have created various frameworks and specifications to direct efforts. At the same time, external initiatives continue to revise their guidance on corporate best practices, so there is a need to continually evaluate and refine our standards.
You will engage and interview teams to collect, review, and provide recommendations for the harmonization or development of internal standards and guidance documents on climate interventions, including sourcing renewable energy (for both electricity and non-electricity demands) and related accounting methodologies.
Responsibilities:
- Research, review, and summarize external standards and criteria emerging from relevant and leading industry associations, coalitions, and standards bodies.
- Interview internal team leads and collate their needs and the documents they've created.
- Summarize internal requirements and positions and identify potential conflicts or gaps.
- Establish cross-functional working groups to clarify the Company's requirements for high-quality renewables procurement and decarbonization solutions.
- Aligned the Company's criteria and standards across decarbonization technology types that can be used across teams and suppliers to engage with external parties with high confidence about how the Company defines "high quality”. Preliminary priorities:
- Renewable electricity sourcing, and the application thereof to a carbon footprint
- Renewable energy sources (non-electricity), including green hydrogen, biomass, and biomass-derived fuels, and the application thereof.
- Aligned Company criteria and guidelines for the accounting of decarbonization solutions across emissions Scopes within existing methodological guidance. Preliminary focus on electricity accounting practices including treatment of grid mix, the temporal basis of accounting, how scope 3 solutions are sized, how regionality is considered, and others.
- Computer science with experience or an MS degree plus experience, or equivalent.