Senior Program Manager, Workplace Health & Safety

HSE Blog; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Senior Program Manager for its Central Programs Team, based in Nashville with Arlington and Bellevue listed. You will lead safety projects from concept through pilot and deployment, study processes to reduce hazards, and develop plans with clear milestones. Travel may be required up to 25%.

Ongoing duties include vendor management, data-driven business reviews, and building reusable playbooks to shorten cycles while maintaining a strong safety culture across WHS operations.

Qualifications

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in business, operations, engineering, safety, or related field.
• 7+ years of program or project management experience.
• Experience with data/metrics, end-to-end delivery, and senior-level reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety projects from initial concept through proof of concept, pilot, network deployment and closure.
• Study operations processes, identify risk and build programs that reduce hazards and sustain a strong safety culture.
• Develop project plans, schedules, vendor scopes and tollgate materials with clear milestones and accountability.
• Manage vendors, third-party labour coordination, material suppliers, compliance requirements and purchase orders.
• Produce data-backed narratives for business reviews and escalations and communicate progress to operations, engineering and WHS stakeholders.
• Document lessons learned and build reusable playbooks that reduce cycle time and rework.

Skills

Program management

Data-driven

Stakeholder reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Lead safety projects from concept through pilot and network deployment for Amazon’s WHS Central Programs Team.

Amazon Workplace Health and Safety is seeking a Senior Program Manager for its Central Programs Team, based in Nashville with Arlington and Bellevue also listed.

Responsibilities

• Lead safety projects from initial concept through proof of concept, pilot, network deployment and closure.
• Study operations processes, identify risk and build programs that reduce hazards and sustain a strong safety culture.
• Develop project plans, schedules, vendor scopes and tollgate materials with clear milestones and accountability.
• Manage vendors, third-party labour coordination, material suppliers, compliance requirements and purchase orders.
• Produce data-backed narratives for business reviews and escalations and communicate progress to operations, engineering and WHS stakeholders.
• Document lessons learned and build reusable playbooks that reduce cycle time and rework.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, operations, engineering, safety or a related field.
• At least seven years of program or project management experience.
• Experience using data and metrics and owning strategy, end-to-end delivery and senior-level reporting.

Preferred qualifications

• Process-improvement experience, a relevant master’s degree or MBA, knowledge of AI tools and experience scaling workforce-development programs.

Travel may be required up to approximately 25%.