Global H&S Audit Manager, AWS Health & Safety

Description

For more than 14 years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud computing platform. What is cloud computing? Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the Internet. Instead of buying, owning, and maintaining physical data centers and servers, companies can access technology services, such as computing power, storage, and databases, on an as-needed basis from AWS.

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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; ensuring effective engagement by H&S teams on global initiatives, including those that are part of Amazon's ambitious sustainability goals; providing specialist expertise; and engaging with all AWS business units to provide scalable and H&S compliance strategies that support current and future business objectives while ensuring employee safety and compliance with H&S regulations.

We are seeking a Global H&S Audit Manager to lead the strategic direction and governance of AWS's Internal Health & Safety Audit Program. This role is focused on defining audit strategy, building and mentoring a high-performing global team, and engaging with senior leadership to drive safety assurance outcomes s role does not primarily execute audits - it shapes how, where, and why audits happen across the organization.

Key job responsibilities

You will:

- Define and own the global H&S audit strategy, including program expansion into new and emerging business lines, and regions

- Lead and mentor a globally dispersed team of auditors across multiple regions, time zones, cultures, and regulatory environments- developing their capability to independently deliver high-quality audits

- Engage with leaders to communicate audit program strategy, risk posture, and safety performance through Monthly Business Reviews (MBRs), Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs), and other forums

- Build and maintain partnerships across Operations, Legal, DCHS, and the SMP team to ensure alignment between audit strategy and business objectives

- Navigate ambiguity - determine where audit coverage is needed most, particularly in new or evolving parts of the business where safety frameworks may not yet exist

- Insist on the highest standards for program governance and audit quality, applying broad technical knowledge and sound business judgment to drive organizational outcomes

Responsibilities

- Strategic Direction & Program Design

- Define the multi-year audit strategy, including scope, coverage model, and prioritization framework aligned to organizational risk appetite

- Design and implement audit methodologies for new departments, business lines, and operational environments where audit coverage does not yet exist

- Establish audit mechanisms, metrics, and reporting frameworks that inform senior leadership decision-making

- Continuously evaluate and evolve the audit program to reflect changes in the business, regulatory landscape, and emerging risks

- Partner with the SMP team, DCHS, and HS Legal to ensure audit strategy creates a continuous loop of feedback that drives systemic safety improvements

Senior Leadership Engagement & Governance

- Present audit program performance, emerging risks, and strategic recommendations at MBRs, QBRs, and leadership forums

- Serve as the primary point of contact for on all matters related to H&S audit assurance

- Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for the audit program, providing data-driven insights leadership

- Influence without authority across a matrixed, global organization to drive accountability for safety outcomes

- Earn trust through proactive engagement to understand business priorities and educate on audit value

Global Team Leadership, Mentorship & Development

- Lead, coach, and develop a team of auditors dispersed across…