Amazon · 3 weeks ago
Manager, Safety Design Engineering, Workplace Health & Safety
Bellevue, Washington, USA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$136K/yr - $235K/yrAmazon is a leading company in the field of Workplace Health and Safety, seeking a Manager for their Safety Design Engineering team. This role involves leading a team to shape technical safety standards and influence design decisions across Amazon's global operations, ensuring safety is integrated into all engineering processes.
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Responsibilities
Lead, manage, and develop a team that owns WHS design standards and the safety-related elements of Amazon’s system design across Prevention-through-Design (PtD), engineering calculations, simulation requirements, Material Handling Equipment (MHE) envelopes, ergonomics, machine safety, noise-vibration-harshness (NVH), maintenance access, and high-hazard energy systems
Apply Safety first-principles engineering, analytical modeling, and quantitative risk methods to validate system assumptions and establish safe design envelopes for buildings, automation, MHE, and high-energy systems
Develop mechanisms that translate complex facility, automation, and MHE designs into clear safety requirements and repeatable processes that ensure consistent design quality across programs, regions, and business units
Lead cross-disciplinary engineering alignment across mechanical, electrical, controls, and systems engineering to embed safety requirements into upstream design decisions
Create and maintain technical mechanisms—standards, analytical models, specifications, templates, and calculators—that embed PtD from concept development through commissioning
Resolve ambiguous, safety-critical engineering challenges, including certification-path conflicts, racking and MHE geometry issues, and determinations of system-level safety margins
Serve as the technical decision owner for Requests for Proposals (RFPs), vendor evaluations, engineered safety controls, and design reviews for automation, MHE, facility layouts, and high-energy systems
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Power Engineering, or a related field
Experience in engineering team management
Experience in new hardware product development
Experience with the project management of technical projects
Experience leveraging AI technologies to elevate engineering judgment, accelerate design decisions, or scale technical mechanisms across large systems
Experience developing and validating system-level design requirements, envelopes, or engineering criteria for large-scale mechanical, electrical, or automation systems
Preferred
Master's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Power Engineering, or a related field
Experience developing products for large volume production
Experience managing teams of 8+ engineers
Experience managing challenging assignments with aggressive schedules
Benefits
Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
Amazon
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Founded in 1994
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$8.11BKey Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO
Leadership Team
Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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