WHS Launch & Design Senior Manager

Amazon; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 151,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon in Bellevue is seeking a Senior Manager for WHS Design, Construction and Start Up to lead safety design, startup planning and risk management for new facilities. You will supervise safety engineers, coordinate with engineering, Real Estate and Operations, and drive end-to-end safety standards across sites.

The role emphasizes regulatory compliance, ergonomics, and continuous safety improvements, with heavy interaction with Sr. Leadership and multiple partner teams.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of program or project management experience.
• 10+ years of cross functional project delivery experience.
• 10+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience.
• 10+ years of team management experience.
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Bachelor's degree in Safety, Engineering or Environmental.

Responsibilities

• Manage and monitor the WHS start-up plan for all new facilities.
• Deep Dive trends and design improvements to develop proposed action plans to Sr. Leadership.
• Advise senior leaders on emerging trends internally and externally and potential impact on roadmaps and strategy.
• Maintain organizational safety engineering risk assessment methodology including risk tolerances and make recommendations to senior management.
• Support new launches by performing suitable risk assessments when appropriate.
• Identify gaps/opportunities in or between regions, processes, and organizations to enable high standards and consistency in application.
• Support the development of solutions that meet Amazon high standards for safety, risk reduction, customer satisfaction, efficiency, scalable, simplicity, and operational excellence.
• Possess technical knowledge and the ability to engage with cross functional teams, transforming this knowledge into sound, compliant processes.
• Validate vendor proposed technical safety solutions and ensure right first time, legally compliant safety standards for equipment.
• Support business change by effectively influencing change management processes within operations.
• Support complex risk programs where the organization or business problem and risks strategy are not defined, or where endemic problems surface.
• Provide functional working links with other critical functional teams including; Engineering, Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, Procurement, New Build Safety and Real Estate teams.
• Generate regular technical updates for stakeholders.
• Provide monthly reports on upcoming projects and current in-process schemes with clear analytical measures of status and risk.
• Serve as a WHS mentor and subject matter expert for all launching sites for both WHS site leadership and Operations.
• Review processes with Engineering, Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, Procurement, and New Build/Real Estate teams to deliver machinery and system safety standards.
• Perform risk assessments on all equipment including Factory Acceptance Testing of new technologies.
• Provide guidance and design standards to ensure compliance to all applicable local/state/federal regulatory standards and Amazon Safety Policies and Procedures.
• Possess strong understanding of Ergonomics and apply in review and design of equipment/processes.
• Review and interpret data to develop improvement plans within new processes.
• Conduct safety reviews of all new processes and equipment and develop safety punch list items with partners.
• Perform Design Reviews with Worldwide Engineering and Ops Engineering in AutoCAD to design in Safety features.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional delivery

Team management

Data-driven decisions

Education

Bachelor's degree

Bachelor's degree in Safety/Engineering/Environmental

Job description

Amazon in Bellevue is seeking a Senior Manager for WHS Design, Construction and Start Up to lead safety design, startup planning and risk management for new facilities. You will supervise safety engineers, coordinate with engineering, Real Estate and Operations, and drive end-to-end safety standards across sites.

The role emphasizes regulatory compliance, ergonomics, and continuous safety improvements, with heavy interaction with Sr. Leadership and multiple partner teams.