Environmental Specialist, Project Kuiper

Project Kuiper Environmental Specialist

Project Kuiper is an initiative to increase global broadband access through a constellation of over 3,000 satellites in low Earth orbit (leo). Its mission is to bring fast, affordable broadband to unserved and underserved communities around the world. Project Kuiper will help close the digital divide by delivering fast, affordable broadband to a wide range of customers, including consumers, businesses, government agencies, and other organizations operating in places without reliable connectivity.

The Kuiper Environmental Specialist will support critical environmental initiatives for Amazon's Kuiper project, based at either our Redmond or Kirkland, Washington facility. This role combines technical expertise with program support to enhance Kuiper's environmental performance and regulatory compliance. As an individual contributor, you will help implement environmental management systems, support compliance programs, and participate in continuous improvement initiatives. Working with the environmental team, you will assist in integrating environmental solutions and best practices into daily operations while ensuring regulatory requirements are met. Your responsibilities will include supporting environmental systems, maintaining compliance processes, and implementing sustainable practices.

Key job responsibilities:

- Support implementation of environmental management systems

- Maintain environmental compliance programs

- Assist with environmental permit management and agency communications

- Help develop solutions for environmental challenges

- Support environmental risk assessments

- Conduct facility condition evaluations

- Collect and analyze environmental data

- Participate in compliance reviews

- Support environmental issue resolution

- Stay current with environmental regulations

- Assist with cross-functional environmental projects

- Help deliver environmental training programs

- Support environmental stewardship initiatives

- Maintain stakeholder relationships

- Support environmental program implementation

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 at Redmond or Kirkland, Washington production facility, the Environmental Specialist role supports Amazon Kuiper's EHS Environmental Compliance programs under the supervision of the Environmental Engineer and Sr. Environmental Manager. In this role, you'll help maintain and improve our environmental programs while supporting manufacturing operations. You will be responsible for implementing technical solutions, supporting compliance initiatives, and assisting with environmental challenges in our state-of-the-art facilities. This position offers opportunities to work at the intersection of aerospace technology and environmental compliance, contributing to Kuiper's mission of global connectivity while ensuring environmental excellence.

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.