Overview

At Amazon, we are working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. We seek exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people to help us build the place to find and buy anything online. One focus area of the Amazon Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) mission is to provide tools, resources, and environments that support safe, efficient, and healthy behaviors and encourage employees to proactively manage their health and wellbeing.

Amazon is seeking an experienced WHS Senior Safety Design and Engineering Manager to play a critical role in ensuring 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 candidate will serve as the lead safety expert for projects, providing comprehensive technical guidance, guiding procurement and facilitating design processes to ensure compliance, and leading proactive safety initiatives through to the development and implementation of comprehensive safety programs. This role requires detailed technical knowledge of EU safety regulations and best practice engineering and procedural controls to reduce risk to operators and maintainers. Emphasis will be on technical knowledge and the ability to engage with cross-functional teams, transforming this knowledge into sound, compliant processes. The candidate must be able to comprehend and apply technical documents, requirements and solutions, using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements. Strong communication skills (verbal and written) are essential. The role involves working with safety and environmental knowledge within manufacturing, production, engineering/facilities or service operations, alongside Engineering, Design, Construction, Startup and Operations teams. Location: Mix of site and office work. Frequent travel up to approximately 60% – 70% of the time. A driving license with experience in the UK and Continental Europe is highly desirable.

A day in the life and the team structure are described further below.