Global Safety Engineer - Hardware & Design

Amazon Data Services, Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Global Safety Engineer to provide technical leadership for safe, maintainable products and installations in AWS hardware engineering.

You will collaborate with design teams across phases to ensure safe design and manage safety projects. You’ll partner with Data Center Health & Safety, Hardware Engineering, and Product Compliance to apply Inherently Safe Design, perform risk assessments, support incident investigations, and help meet environmental and

Responsibilities

• Utilize knowledge of Health and Safety technical and functional requirements to ensure Global Safety Engineering Team and Partner teams build safe products and programs around these requirements
• Work with Data Center Health and Safety team and other H&S field teams and stakeholders' teams (Hardware Engineering, Data Center Engineering, Global Trade and Product Compliance (GTPC), Product Compliance Legal (PC Legal), Health and Safety Legal (HS Legal), and Operations) to implement Inherently Safe Design principles within work processes and new equipment/product designs
• Provide H&S input during the product scoping phase to ensure H&S workplace safety concerns are identified
• Evaluate and review schematics and drawings and provide H&S input during product development/early design and phased reviews with design and construction partners
• Complete preliminary design risk assessments from desk-based review during the Engineering Validation/Testing phase of design
• Validate equipment functionality and employee/vendor against preliminary risk assessment and update as necessary
• Evaluate equipment and activities in the field against the risk assessment, SOPs and MOPs
• Provide technical support including input into product development at the Global Safety Engineering Innovation lab and Hardware Engineeering and Design Engineering Labs in Seattle
• Independently provide technical guidance on equipment/product design, machine and electrical safety related issues
• Provide advice to support business objectives with due consideration to safe design, electrical code compliance, occupational health and safety regulations, and industry best practices.
• Follow up on significant incident investigations and complete internal and external incident investigation reports as needed.

Job description

Amazon Data Services, Inc. is seeking a Global Safety Engineer to provide technical leadership for safe, maintainable products and installations in AWS hardware engineering.

You will collaborate with design teams across phases to ensure safe design and manage safety projects. You’ll partner with Data Center Health & Safety, Hardware Engineering, and Product Compliance to apply Inherently Safe Design, perform risk assessments, support incident investigations, and help meet environmental and