EU Safety Engineering Expert , Safety Engineering (EU & Rest of World)

Senior Safety Design and Engineering Manager, Safety Engineering (EU & Rest of World)

At Amazon, we're working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people.

One focus area of the Amazon Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) mission is to provide tools, resources, and environments that support safe, efficient, and healthy behaviors and encourage employees to proactively manage their health and wellbeing.

To support this focus area, Amazon is seeking an experienced WHS Senior Safety Design and Engineering Manager to play a critical role in ensuring high standards of safety are built into systems and processes across new and legacy Fulfilment Centres, Sort Centres, and Delivery Stations across Europe.

The successful candidate will serve as the lead safety expert for projects, providing comprehensive technical guidance, guiding procurement, and facilitating design processes to ensure compliance, leading proactive safety initiatives, and developing and implementing comprehensive safety programs.

The role will be filled by an experienced Senior Safety Design and Engineering Manager with detailed technical knowledge of EU safety regulations and best practice engineering and procedural controls to reduce risk to operators and maintainers.

Emphasis will be on technical knowledge and the ability to engage with cross-functional teams, transforming this knowledge into sound, compliant processes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Define new and update existing technical standards for and process controls, working closely with EU internal experts.
• Generate regular technical updates for the Safety Engineering team on latest safety regulations, standards (ISO, IEC, EN), and emerging technologies to keep the team current with compliance requirements and best practices.
• Look for industry innovation for new, safer risk reduction measures as well as inspection techniques, tools, and opportunities for improving performance and reducing impact to stakeholders in terms of time and cost.
• Be the leading WHS technical voice during projects development to ensure compliance with Amazon standards and regulatory requirements.
• Support Amazon facilities by performing suitable and sufficient risk assessments of all relevant new projects, mentoring, and developing other team members whilst doing so.

Basic Qualifications

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office products and applications at an advanced level
• A Bachelor degree or equivalent level of qualification in line with the European Qualifications Framework (EQF)
• Extensive experience of Safety Engineering risk management, mainly focused on managing or inspecting machinery safety to EU standards and directives

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent certification
• Experience leveraging technology and implementing lean principles / Six Sigma methodologies to drive process improvements or equivalent
• Master's degree or equivalent
• CMSE – Certified Machinery Expert
• FS Engineer – Functional Safety Engineer (IEC 61508 etc).

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