Design, Commissioning & Startup Safety Engineer, SR WHS Design, Construction & Startup

About the role

As a Senior Design & Startup Safety Program Manager within the Workplace, Health & Safety organization, you will drive safety excellence across new facility launches. You will partner with Site Operations, Engineering, Real Estate, and Procurement teams to ensure every site implements Amazon WHS policies and meets regulatory requirements from day one. You will support the safety aspect of design of new building templates, launches across all businesses by coordinating end-to-end lifecycle management of safety in design—from concept review through commissioning.

Responsibilities

• Execute WHS Launch Start-Up plans driving compliance with Amazon policies and local/federal regulations
• Coordinate WHS commissioning activities including site reviews, network-level equipment and process assessments, and Factory Acceptance Testing
• Track and complete action items from site visits with clear accountability and timelines
• Serve as WHS technical resource for launching sites
• Conduct AutoCAD layout evaluations and equipment design reviews to identify and eliminate safety risks
• Apply organizational risk assessment methodology including risk tolerances
• Validate vendor technical safety solutions in partnership with engineering teams
• Analyze safety performance trends across buildings to identify design improvements and support recommendations to leadership
• Build trust and support change management with Engineering, Operations, Real Estate, and Procurement stakeholders
• Communicate technical safety requirements clearly and effectively to managers and senior leaders
• Partner with cross-functional teams to embed safety standards into new systems and processes
• Manage and monitor the WHS start-up plan for new facilities
• Deep dive trends and design improvements to develop proposed action plans to Sr. Leadership
• 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 (e.g., workflows, risk assessments, controls, etc.) 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, scalability, simplicity, and operational excellence
• Validate vendor proposed technical safety solutions and work in partnership with internal engineering and reliability maintenance teams to 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, including liaison with other critical support functions such as Engineering, Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, Procurement, and New Build/Real Estate teams to effectively deliver machinery and system safety standards
• Perform risk assessments on all equipment to include 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
• Review and interpret data and use this information to develop improvement plans within new processes
• Conduct safety reviews of all new processes and equipment
• Develop safety punch list items with all applicable business partners identifying, in detail, all safety issues and recommendations on how such opportunities can be addressed both short and long-term
• Perform Design Reviews with Worldwide Engineering and Ops Engineering in AutoCAD to design in Safety features to the building/processes
• Read blueprints to interpret building template design to ensure it meets regulatory requirements, all safety requirements, aligns with current Amazon Policies and Procedures, and Federal/State/Local jurisdiction requirements
• Provide guidance to design teams and launch stakeholders on compliance requirements, supported by risk assessments, regulatory compliance and Amazon Policies and Procedures
• Travel to sites to perform risk assessments, Factory Acceptance Testing, Site Acceptance Testing, as well as validation of WHS DCS program managers commissioning of equipment/building/modules/safety supplies
• Communicate across multiple stakeholders, analyzing incident trends as it relates to design, and designing out risk to operations
• Document and action post launch lessons learned, design changes and improvements, and module updates/changes
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align changes/improvements of design including risk assessments and risk reduction

Requirements

• 5+ years of program or project management experience
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
• Bachelor's Degree in Safety, Engineering, or Environmental

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
• Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field
• Knowledge of general AI tools
• Experience designing, implementing, and scaling upskilling, apprenticeship, or workforce development programs across large-scale operations or corporate environments, including forecasting workforce needs and leveraging analytics to drive program decisions

Pay

Base salary ranges by location:

• USA, TN, Nashville: $104,100.00 – $155,400.00 USD annually
• USA, VA, Arlington: $115,600.00 – $160,000.00 USD annually
• USA, WA, Bellevue: $115,600.00 – $160,000.00 USD annually