Safety Engineering Manager, AWS Health & Safety

Job :  | Amazon Data Services, Inc.

Join the world class safety culture at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and be part of supporting the largest cloud computing infrastructure team as a Safety Engineering Manager. We are looking for a manager for the Health and Safety (H&S) Engineering team who will be responsible for driving a strategic approach to delivering high-level engineering services for the AWS Safety team, strategic team leadership and development, setting and driving team vision and objectives, mentoring and growing safety engineer talent, managing team performance and career development

The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated manager with a solid knowledge in safety engineering, and a proven track record of designing, deploying, and managing global safety engineering programs. They will have a history of building partnerships with diverse teams across multiple jurisdictions. The candidate must have the ability to define clear requirements in ambiguity, proactively educate team members, leaders, and other support teams, and communicate effectively and consistently throughout all levels of the business.

The role will evolve with the maturity and growth of the program and requires a high degree of flexibility, including the ability to deep dive into time critical programs and projects, manage a team of safety engineers, and deliver continuous improvement actions.

The AWS Health and Safety (H&S) team is an expanding a dynamic team that is critical to enabling AWS's growth around the world, as well as ensuring compliance of AWS's global operations, including physical data centers, as well as other AWS facilities, customer-facing enterprises and products. The H&S team has responsibility for architecting and implementing AWS's global safety programs. This includes defining and implementing risk management and compliance systems and driving their continuous improvement;

setting and refining global policies and procedures; overseeing the development of standards, tools, auditing and metrics, and employee training;

• Manage and oversee a team of Safety Engineers and the safety lab.
• Manage and oversee multiple safety engineering projects. This includes technical writing, program maintenance, deployment of new projects, tools and programs, and continuous improvement of existing programs.
• Develop trusting relationships with partners and customers, understanding their business needs and troubleshoot challenges
• Collaborate with AWS programs teams, field safety teams, Engineering, and other functional team in the development and implementation of H&S operational excellence solutions
• Identify, action, and/or provide advice on how safety engineering will improve and streamline business operations to drive growth, improve organizational efficiency to improve workplace safety
• Demonstrate excellent time-management skills and the ability to work independently while using centralized resources, policies, and procedures
• Resource allocation and prioritization across team projects
• Strateg