Safety Design and Engineering Manager, Safety & Risk Engineer

Overview

At Amazon, we aim to be the most customer-centric company on earth. We seek exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people to help build the place to find and buy anything online. One focus area of the Amazon Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) mission is to provide tools, resources, and environments that support safe, efficient, and healthy behaviours and encourage employees to proactively manage their health and well-being. Amazon is seeking WHS Safety Design and Engineering Managers to ensure high safety standards are integrated into systems and processes across new and legacy Fulfilment Centres, Sort Centres and Delivery Stations across Europe. The successful candidates will conduct safety assessments to identify improvements needed to increase safety. They must comprehend and apply technical documents, requirements and solutions, and use data and metrics to drive improvements. Building trust and delivering clear, concise messages, both verbally and in writing, is essential. Strong safety and relevant environmental and ergonomic knowledge are required, with experience in safety and / or environmental programs in manufacturing, production, engineering / facilities, or service operations alongside Engineering, Design, Construction, Startup and Operations teams. Knowledge of EU machinery safety standards and regulations to meet European country requirements is desirable. Location : mix of site and office work with travel up to 60–70% of the time. A driving license with experience in the UK and Continental Europe is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

Support Amazon facilities by performing suitable and sufficient risk assessments for legacy and new launch sites.

Be the strong WHS technical voice during project development to ensure compliance with Amazon standards and regulatory requirements, including leading safety technical reviews and risk assessments for all new equipment systems.

Manage the intake of requests for support and prioritise the process to suit operational requirements, engaging and coordinating the involvement of the inspection team with projects.

Provide functional links with other critical teams including Engineering, Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, Procurement, and New Build Safety and Real Estate.

Conduct site WHS assessments to ensure applicable requirements are considered during installation. Create punch list items and review corrective measures with relevant teams to mitigate risk to an acceptable level.

Keep tracking data up to date for the inspection program.

Validate that geographically specific real estate standards or World Wide / Geographically specific Building Design Standards are incorporated into construction / remodeling of sites.

Support development of solutions that meet Amazon safety, risk reduction, customer satisfaction, efficiency, scalability, simplicity, and operational excellence standards.

Support the delivery of central Health and Safety pro-active objectives.

Escalate significant concerns and share lessons learned identified during inspections and site visits.

Provide input to change projects, build outs and development projects; act as a technical advisor for the EU WHS team.

Plan and arrange travel efficiently and frugally.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Experience in compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk / loss prevention, or equivalent.

Experience handling confidential information.

Professional auditing qualification, or similar risk or compliance credentials.

Experience with SQL and Excel.

Experience in program requirements definition, with data and metrics-driven approach to drive improvements.

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