Safety Engineer, Workplace Health & Safety

Amazon•Bellevue, WA

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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
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
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
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

Nice To Haves

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
Experience engaging regulatory agencies
Proficiency with Autocad

Responsibilities

Complete risk evaluations in accordance with ISO12100 and ANSI B11 practices
Support the development of policies, standards, training, and safe operating procedures
Interpret and apply regulations, codes, bylaws, and all relevant standards
Advise partner engineering organizations and operations teams on regulations, regulatory compliance concerns, and good engineering practices relating to equipment design
Participate in new standard developments with Engineering, Amazon Robotics, Injury Prevention Specialists, RME, Operations, and other key stakeholders
Work with various teams to review and approve designs of new equipment and modifications to existing equipment
Must display improvement projects
Maintain all regulatory compliance documentation to ensure accurate and up to date adherence to standards
Participate in the development of new organizational standards
Managing projects that require certifications that comply with local, national and international regulations
Knowledge and understanding of equipment certification requirements (CE, UL, etc.) and experience working with NRTLs
Integration of control systems into the design of new and existing equipment
Work with WHS safety teams, technical engineering teams and suppliers to specify safety or other risk-related requirements for projects across multiple regions
Contribute to building a safety culture that enables our technical engineering teams develop safe and compliant products, systems and solutions.