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

Amazon 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. 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. Based at our Kirkland, Washington production facility, the Amazon Leo EHS Manager will develop, communicate, train, drive, manage, audit, improve, and measure Amazon Leo's EHS performance. This 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 of working conditions in places of employment for the prevention of occupational disease and industrial health hazards, with specific references to chemicals, noise, lasers, and other potential worker health hazards. • Collaborate with colleagues across multiple disciplines within the company to assure effective program implementation and cohesiveness. • Promote the successful integration of safety and health risk management into key business operations, processes, and audits. • Perform data analytics on company and industry EHS information to drive improvement initiatives. • Promote EHS awareness throughout the organization through effective employee communications, participation, and programming. • Prepare and execute sampling plans to include determination of appropriate analytic methods, equipment selection, calibration, laboratory analysis, and results interpretations. • Provide technical assistance and support and serve as key point of contact for safety issues and environmental issues. • Manage environmental permits, proper waste disposal, and EHS reporting in accordance with permit and local requirements. • Conduct compliance tasks including storm water sampling, waste inspections, chemical inventory, and life safety audits, as needed. • Ensure full 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. • Provide leadership on Kuiper EHS issues, assist senior leaders in understanding business impacts of EHS issues, thereby enabling prudent allocation of resources and decision-making. • Develop and implement EHS training programs that will engage all levels of Leo teams on EHS responsibilities, compliance requirements and cultural progression. • Provide safety guidance for developing production processes, equipment, and design. Remain up-to-date and conversant with relevant laws, regulations and other statutory requirements that affect EHS. A day in the life Based in Kirkland, WA, the EHS 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 Leo’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