Principal Systems Manager, Facilities, Engineering and Construction

Workplace Health and Safety Technical Solutions Team is seeking a Global Principle Safety Systems Engineer. This role will drive strategic initiatives and business partnerships, across all business units globally. This leader will support the engineering vision and strategy to drive consistency in managing our safety risks across WW Operations. This role will functionally partner with all engineering and stakeholder teams to drive a systematic approach to address risk identification, mitigation, and management of safety risks through engineering solutions.

Key job responsibilities
• Lead key elements of the development and year on year execution of global safety engineering strategy, including defining strategic objectives, goals, and metrics as well as ensuring data driven approach to measuring performance
• Provided a systematic approach to technical project intake and management by creating mechanisms to rank and prioritize projects.
• Develop safety engineering systems and processes that drive a consistent and harmonized approach across BU’s and geographies
• Develop approaches to risk modeling and analysis for mechatronics and integrated systems.
• Work with WHS teams, technical engineering teams, operations to specify safety or other risk-related requirements for projects.
• Support complex risk programs where the organization or business problem and risks strategy are not defined, or where endemic problems surface.
• Engage in creative, out-of-the-box thinking about ways that mechatronics and safety systems and potential impacts, especially for unintentional risks they create.
• Make use of strong skills for building consensus and alignment on project safety goals, balancing the needs of the many stakeholders involved, including considerations on safety, , reliability, cost, and maintainability.
• In partnership with our stakeholders, investigate incidents or unexpected behavior with mechatronics in our buildings and develop concrete proposals to mitigate and prevent future incidents
• Contribute to developing and implementing safety engineering norms and procedures in ways that is scalable.
• Contribute to further building a safety culture that enables our technical engineering teams develop safe and compliant products, systems and solutions.
• Identify gaps/opportunities in 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, scalable, simplicity, and operational excellence
• Support technical review of Global Safety Engineering Standards and Specifications, along with subordinate documents (e.g. procedures) and processes (e.g. risk methodologies).
• Participate in legal team meetings, communicating and defending program, and organizational-level risk to business leaders, regulators and industry associations (where applicable).
• Partnering, maintain and leverage industry partnerships to support safety engineering programs.


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!