Safety Design And Engineering Manager WHS
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Description Job Description At Amazon, were working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If youd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.
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At Amazon, were working to be the most customer-centric company on earth.
To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people.
If youd like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.
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.
To support this focus area, Amazon is seeking WHS Safety Design and Engineering Managers to play a critical role to ensure high standards of safety are built into systems and processes across new and legacy Fulfilment Centres, Sort Centres and Delivery Stations across 11 countries spreading from LATAM to APAC.
The successful candidates will conduct safety assessments to identify if improvements are required to increase the level of safety.
They must demonstrate the ability to comprehend and apply technical documents, requirements and solutions, using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements.
This team member should be an effective communicator and send clear, concise and consistent messages, both verbally and in writing.
They will be required to possess strong safety and relevant environmental and ergonomic knowledge and to demonstrate this expertise when working with increasing responsibilities in safety and/or environmental programs in manufacturing, production, engineering/facilities or service operations along with Engineering, Design, Construction, Startup and Operations teams.
Building trust and confidence with these stakeholders is key for success in the role.
It is desirable that they will also have technical knowledge of various machinery safety standards and regulations to meet all country’s requirements.
Location: Mix of site and office work.
The role will require frequent travel up to approx. 50% of the time.
For this reason, the candidate must be able to obtain visas for all countries within their remit.
Key job responsibilities
You will be supporting a wide range of projects including liaison with other critical support functions such as Engineering, Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, Procurement, and New Build/Real Estate teams in order to effectively deliver the required right first-time machinery and systems safety standards.
This is an important safety role and will report to the Director of WHS for High Risk Operations.
The Extent Of Your Duties Will Include
- Support Amazon facilities by performing suitable and sufficient risk assessments for legacy and new launch sites.
- Be the strong WHS technical voice, during projects development to ensure compliance with Amazon standards and regulatory requirements. This includes leading safety technical reviews and risk assessments for all new equipment systems.
- Manage the intake of request for support and prioritize the process to suit operational requirements where needed, engaging and managing the involvement of the inspection team with the projects.
- Provide functional working links with other critical functional teams including; Engineering, Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, Procurement, New Build Safety and Real Estate teams.
- Conduct site WHS assessments to ensure all applicable requirements are considered into installation. Create punch lists items using Amazon tools and effectively review corrective measures with relevant teams to ensure mitigation is completed to reduce all risk to an acceptable level.
- Keep tracking data up to date for the inspection program.
- Validate geographically specific real estate standards or World Wide/Geographically specific Building Design Standards are incorporated into the construction/remodeling of a site.
- Support the development of solutions that meet Amazon high standards for safety, risk reduction, customer satisfaction, efficiency, scalability, simplicity, and operational excellence.
- Support the delivery of central Health and Safety pro-active objectives.
- Escalate significant concerns and lessons learned identified during inspections and subsequent site visits.
- Provide input to change projects, build outs and development projects and act as a technical advisor for the Rest of World (ROW) WHS team.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Technology, Reliability Engineering
- Experience in industry work in a related environment
- Knowledge of diverse MHS, industrial mechanical and electrical systems and automation, controls and robotics systems
- 5+ years of demonstrating safety standards experience
- Experience working cross-functionally with a wide breadth of stakeholders, users, engineers, and leaders to generate buy-in
- Can communicate effectively with all levels of the organization
- Experience in written and verbal communication skills to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership
- Experience with computer skills, including proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Robotics and Material Handling Equipment (MHE) knowledge.
- Comprehension and practical application of risk assessments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles / Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvements or equivalent
- Masters degree in a technical field
- Experience of working for a Notified or Approved body for Machinery Safety
- Qualified to NEBOSH Diploma level or equivalent
- Formal training certification in Machinery Safety (such as CMSE)
- TUV Certified Functional Safety Engineer.
- Experience interacting with cross functional teams and managing projects with minimal supervision.
- Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers.
- If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information.
- If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
Job Details
Role Level: Mid-Level Work Type: Full-Time Country: United Arab Emirates City: Dubai Company Website: https://www.aboutamazon.com/ Job Function: Others Company Industry/
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