Safety Design and Engineering Manager, AMSCI
Job ID: 2992655 | Amazon Data Services Italy S.R.L. - D08
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One focus area of the Amazon Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) mission is to provide tools, resources, and environments that support safe, efficient, and healthy behaviours and encourage employees to proactively manage their health and well-being. To support this focus area, Amazon is seeking WHS Safety Design and Engineering Managers to play a critical role to ensure high standards of safety are built into systems and processes across new and legacy Fulfilment Centres, Sort Centres and Delivery Stations across Europe. The successful candidates will conduct safety assessments to identify if improvements are required to increase the level of safety. They must demonstrate the ability to comprehend and apply technical documents, requirements and solutions, using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements. This role requires strong safety and relevant environmental and ergonomic knowledge and the ability to work with Engineering, Design, Construction, Startup and Operations teams. Location involves a mix of site and office work with travel up to 60%–70% and a driving license with experience in UK and Continental Europe is highly desirable.
Key responsibilities
* Support Amazon facilities by performing suitable and sufficient risk assessments for legacy and new launch sites.
* Be the technical safety voice during project development to ensure compliance with Amazon standards and regulatory requirements, including leading safety technical reviews and risk assessments for all new equipment systems.
* Manage the intake of requests for support and prioritise the process to suit operational requirements, engaging and managing the involvement of the inspection team with projects.
* Provide functional links with other critical teams including Engineering, Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, Procurement, and New Build/Real Estate teams.
* Conduct site WHS assessments to ensure applicable requirements are incorporated into installation; create punch lists and review corrective measures with relevant teams to mitigate risk.
* Maintain up-to-date tracking data for the inspection program.
* Validate building design standards and real estate standards are incorporated into construction/remodeling as applicable by geography.
* Support development of solutions that meet high standards for safety, risk reduction, customer satisfaction, efficiency, scalability, simplicity, and operational excellence.
* Support the delivery of central Health and Safety proactive objectives and escalate significant concerns and lessons learned from inspections and site visits.
* Provide input to change projects, build outs and development projects and act as a technical advisor for the EU WHS team.
* Plan and arrange travel efficiently and with frugality.
Basic Qualifications
* Experience in a similar role of machinery inspection.
* Robotics and Material Handling Equipment (MHE) knowledge.
* In-depth understanding of the EU Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC and relevant harmonized standards.
* Comprehension and practical application of risk assessments.
* Proven track record of managing machinery safety inspections across large multi-site businesses.
* Ability to engage and influence other functional leaders and their teams to build buy-in to EU Health and Safety strategies and change processes.
* Experience operating at all organizational levels, from warehouse floor to senior management.
* Solid verbal and written communication skills.
* Proficiency with Microsoft Office and other tools to support system engineering and briefing/proposal development.
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience with a Notified or Approved body for Machinery Safety.
* NEBOSH Diploma or equivalent, preferably in a low-margin, high-volume warehousing/logistics environment.
* Formal training in Machinery Safety (e.g., CMSE).
* Experience implementing lean principles and process improvement in an operational environment.
* TUV Certified Functional Safety Engineer.
* Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams and managing projects with minimal supervision.
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