Sr. Industrial Designer, WHS Global Mobility

Description

The Senior Industrial Designer, Safety Design Engineering provides technical leadership in designing safe systems across Amazon's global operations network. This role ensures hazards are eliminated at the design stage and safety requirements are integrated into the architecture of buildings, equipment, automation, and Material Handling Equipment (MHE) from the earliest concept phases.

You will define how safety is engineered into new technologies and facility designs, guide cross-functional partners through safety-critical design decisions, and represent Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) in capital programs and early design reviews. This position influences long-range planning, network design strategies, and vendor engagements, ensuring safety is established as an engineering requirement embedded in design standards, planning processes, and architectural decisions.

The role operates at network scale, applying deep technical judgment to resolve complex design issues across organizations while setting expectations for how Amazon integrates Prevention-through-Design (PtD) principles into system architecture covering buildings, automation, MHE, and high-energy systems.

Key job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Influence WHS design standards and safety-related elements of Amazon's system architecture, including PtD criteria, engineering calculations, simulation requirements, MHE envelopes, machine safety, ergonomics, noise-vibration-harshness (NVH), maintenance access, and high-hazard energy systems

Apply first-principles engineering, analytical modeling, and quantitative risk methods to validate architectural assumptions and define safe system design envelopes for buildings, automation, MHE, and high-energy systems

Develop mechanisms to decompose complex facility, automation, and MHE architectures into safety requirements and operationalized mechanisms ensuring consistent design quality across programs, regions, and business units

Drive cross-disciplinary engineering alignment across mechanical, electrical, controls, and systems engineering teams, partnering with WWDE, RME, GES, ACES, and Operations to integrate safety requirements into core architecture decisions

Develop and maintain enduring engineering mechanisms-standards, analytical models, architectural specifications, templates, and calculators-that embed PtD from early concept through commissioning

Resolve ambiguous, safety-critical engineering challenges with no established industry standard, including technical conflicts involving certification paths, racking and MHE geometry, and system-level safety margins

Serve as technical decision owner for Requests for Proposals (RFPs), vendor evaluations, and engineered safety controls; act as principal reviewer in architecture and design reviews for automation technologies, MHE systems, facility layouts, and high-energy systems

Benchmark Amazon's safety design architecture against industry engineering standards and emerging technologies, ensuring ahead-of-regulation design performance and long-term strategic alignment

Influence system architecture quality, lifecycle safety performance, operational reliability, and maintainability across Amazon's global operations network, including OP1/OP2 inputs, risk-reduction targets, and long-range planning

A day in the life

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options

3. Paid Time Off (PTO)

4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you're passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!

About the team

The WGM team's vision is to set the global standard for mobile equipment safety excellence by integrating advanced technology, data analytics, and human-centered design. We create sustainable safety solutions that protect Amazon associates, optimize operations, and advance workplace safety innovation across our worldwide network.

Basic Qualifications

* 5+ years of design & innovation, research & development work experience

* Experience with design & innovation and research & development

* Experience in management of engineering design projects

* Experience using business or technical software like MS Excel, MS Project, and CAD software

* Bachelor's degree in Engineering (any domain)

Preferred Qualifications

* 5+ years of specialty (with progressive responsibility) experience

* Master's degree in Engineering (any domain), Operations, Business Administration, or a related field

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