Safety Engineer, Workplace Health & Safety
Job Description
The Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) organization is seeking a Senior Safety Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for partnering with Amazon Worldwide Design Engineering teams to ensure new equipment and modifications to existing equipment installed in operational Amazon buildings comply with all applicable codes, regulations and harmonized standards. You will also partner with various engineering, design and operations teams including, Operations Engineering, Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, Business Operations Leaders, Field WHS teams, and other key stakeholders. In addition, you will be required to lead risk assessments, assist in the development and review of equipment designs and provide guidance on requirements on controls and devices. This role will functionally partner with all engineering teams to drive a systematic approach to address risk identification, mitigation, and management of safety solutions.
This position requires travel 25-50% of the time.
A day in the lifeAmazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options3. Paid Time Off (PTO)4. 401(k) PlanIf you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!
Responsibilities
Key job responsibilitiesComplete risk evaluations in accordance with ISO12100 and ANSI B11 practicesSupport the development of policies, standards, training, and safe operating proceduresInterpret and apply regulations, codes, bylaws, and all relevant standardsAdvise partner engineering organizations and operations teams on regulations, regulatory compliance concerns, and good engineering practices relating to equipment designParticipate in new standard developments with Engineering, Amazon Robotics, Injury Prevention Specialists, RME, Operations, and other key stakeholdersWork with various teams to review and approve designs of new equipment and modifications to existing equipmentMust display improvement projectsMaintain all regulatory compliance documentation to ensure accurate and up to date adherence to standardsParticipate in the development of new organizational standardsManaging projects that require certifications that comply with local, national and international regulationsKnowledge and understanding of equipment certification requirements (CE, UL, etc.) and experience working with NRTLsIntegration of control systems into the design of new and existing equipmentWork with WHS safety teams, technical engineering teams and suppliers to specify safety or other risk-related requirements for projects across multiple regionsContribute to building a safety culture that enables our technical engineering teams develop safe and compliant products, systems and solutions.
Job Requirements
Basic Qualifications
- 3+ years of program or project management experience
- 3+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience
- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level and SQL
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering
- 5+ years of experience in safety engineering programs in manufacturing or production environment
- Experience working within a global company, with global or multi-country responsibilities
- Knowledge and understanding of certification bodies for approvals that comply with local, national and international regulations
- Knowledge of the core business systems and/or broad understanding of company systems/ technologies (relevant to safety engineering)
- Working knowledge and experience with National Recognized Test Laboratory (NRTL) and Notified Bodies.
- Knowledge of international and EU/NA Standards such as EU Machinery Directive, ISO, ANSI, OSHA, NFPA
Preferred Qualifications
- 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- 3+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules
- Master’s degree preferred - Mechanical, Structural, Electrical or Industrial Engineer
- Distribution Center or Manufacturing experience with mix of exempt and non-exempt employees preferred
- CSME or other functional safety certification
- Demonstrated ability to be flexible, adapting the approach to meet the needs of customers, business and program stakeholders, and engineering teams involved
- Ability to self-manage priorities and deliverables. Flexible in responding to changing demands, goals, timelines, and priorities
- Ability to collaborate and lead in a flexible, detail-oriented, fast-paced team environment in a changing and growing organization
- Ability to interact in a positive and professional manner, excellent critical thinker with problem-solving skills, think big and insist on highest standard while having the ability to work cooperatively in a team setting
- Strong analytical skills with demonstrated problem solving ability
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Ability to adapt well to fast-paced environments with changing circumstances, direction, and strategy ·
- Experience engaging regulatory agencies
- Proficiency with Autocad
- Strong ability to represent, verbally and in writing, technical information, risk levels, complex decisions, and potential solutions in clear simple language to business and other stakeholders to enable decision making
