Leo is Amazon’s low Earth orbit satellite broadband network. Its mission is to deliver fast, reliable internet to customers and communities around the world, and we’ve designed the system with the capacity, flexibility, and performance to serve a wide range of customers, from individual households to schools, hospitals, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in locations without reliable connectivity.

Based in Redmond, Washington at our satellite manufacturing facility, the Leo EHS Manager will help support, develop, communicate, train, drive, manage, audit, improve, and measure Amazon’s Leo EHS performance. This individual contributor role will include developing and enhancing EHS compliance and risk management processes. Driving understanding, engagement to provide EHS performance improvement, for the Leo portfolio, influence business units leadership, and further integrate EHS into daily operations.

Key job responsibilities
- Conducts investigations based of risks, hazards, and incidents.
- Promote EHS awareness throughout the organization through effective employee communications and participation.
- Execute sampling plans
- Serve as key point of contact for safety issues and environmental issues.
- Conduct compliance tasks including storm water sampling, waste inspections, chemical inventory, and life safety audits.
- Execute compliance with applicable laws, regulations and customer requirements.
- Support and conduct EHS audits, developing action plans to resolve findings, and implement countermeasures promptly and effectively.
- Perform job hazard analysis and risk assessments for new processes and equipment.
- Maintain accurate daily, weekly, and monthly metrics to report to onsite management teams and corporate based reporting systems.
- Recommend appropriate risk mitigation measures to management, including ergonomics.
- Drive continual improvement efforts to reduce site EHS risk
- Support site stand-up meetings, safety committees, and floor inspections

Candidate must be willing to work flexible shifts including days, nights and/or weekends

Export Control Requirement:
Due to applicable export control laws and regulations, candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (i.e., current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum

A day in the life
Based in Redmond, WA, the EHS Manager role will support the development and will execute Amazon Leo’s EHS compliance programs and be supported under the supervision of the Leo EHS Manager. You will support Kuiper’s personnel in the development, testing, and manufacture of space hardware, which will include developing and executing new programs to strengthen our programs EHS compliance and risk management processes.

This role is accountable for supporting development and implementation of environmental, health and safety programs, tools and standards in line with Leo Global EHS policies. Responsibilities include training and communication in a manner that ensures compliance to regulatory and internal standards, as well as business needs. Key to this role is building and maintaining strong relationships with all levels of the organization from leadership to individual workers to support them in determining best in class methods to achieve compliance.

About the team
Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. Amazon has ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

At Amazon, our mission is to be the most customer-centric company on Earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright and driven people. We're dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Amazon tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship.

Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Manager, Amazon Leo