Senior Safety Engineer, Amazon Robotics EHS, Robotics Technology

Amazon•North Reading, MA

About The Position

Amazon Robotics’ Environmental Health and Safety Team is seeking a Senior Safety Engineer to support our automation technology development and manufacturing teams. This role will provide technical safety expertise and leadership associated with innovation and ideation phases as well as the manufacturing and production system by driving a systematic approach to identify, mitigate and manage risk to meet Amazon, regulatory and industry standards. This role will functionally partner internally with Innovation, HW, Design and Functional Safety Engineering, Controls, Manufacturing, System Integration, SW, Program, Deployment and Site EHS teams, and externally with 3Ps, Integrators, NRTLs, etc. Role may require travel up to 15% of the time.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field
10+ years’ experience in safety engineering programs in manufacturing or production environment
Deep knowledge and experience of safety risk assessment, functional safety analysis and electrical safety
Working knowledge of International and EU/NA Standards such as EU Machinery Directive, ISO, IEC, ANSI, NFPA, UL, OSHA, CFR, NFPA, ANSI, FCC

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred in related safety or engineering fields

Responsibilities

Establish and communicate safety requirements and specifications for Innovation, R&D labs, Manufacturing/Production System based on Amazon, regulatory, and harmonized industry standards
Develop and drive safety and compliance roadmap for R&D and manufacturing/production system. Make use of strong skills for building consensus and alignment between internal and external partners on project safety goals, balancing the needs of the many stakeholders involved, including considerations on safety, security, reliability, cost, and maintainability.
Lead and support innovation and production system teams and 3Ps to deliver safe design for various build, commission and test phases per regulatory requirements such as OSHA/NRTL/Machinery Directive, as well as industry standards such as ISO 12100/ANSI B11/NFPA 79/IEC 60204/ISO 13849/other applicable standards such as ANSI B30.13/EN 528/ANSI RIA R15.06/R15.08/ISO10218/EN.
In partnership with our Innovation, Manufacturing and Site EHS teams, investigate incidents or unexpected behavior with the technology in our buildings and develop concrete proposals to mitigate and prevent future incidents.
Develop approaches to risk analysis for robotics and integrated automation systems including unintentional risks they create during testing and manufacturing.
Build a safety culture that enables and assists our technical engineering teams to develop and deploy safe and compliant products, systems and solutions.
Identify gaps/opportunities in processes, and organizations (e.g., workflows, risk assessments, controls, etc.) to enable high standards and consistency in application.
Support the development of solutions that meet Amazon’s high standards for safety, risk reduction, customer satisfaction, efficiency, scalablability, simplicity, and operational excellence.
Maintain and leverage industry partnerships to support safety engineering programs.
Apply project management skills to manage scope, define technical requests, research appropriate expertise required, identify the relevant teams and members to coordinate resource deployment on tasks, analyze risks and develop mitigation strategies to proactively identify and resolve issues.