Safety Design and Engineering Manager

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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 team member should be an effective communicator and send clear, concise and consistent messages, both verbally and in writing.
They will be required to possess strong safety and relevant environmental and ergonomic knowledge and to demonstrate this expertise when working with increasing responsibilities in safety and/or environmental programs in manufacturing, production, engineering/facilities or service operations along with Engineering, Design, Construction, Startup and Operations teams.
Building trust and confidence with these stakeholders is key for success in the role. It is desirable that they will also have technical knowledge of EU machinery safety standards and regulations to meet all European country's requirements.
Location: Mix of site and office work. The role will require frequent travel up to approx. 60% - 70% of the time. For this reason, a driving license with experience in UK and Continental Europe is highly desirable.

Key job responsibilities
You will be supporting a wide range of projects including liaison with other critical support functions such as Engineering, Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, Procurement, and New Build/Real Estate teams in order to effectively deliver the required right first-time machinery and systems safety standards. This is an important safety role and will report to the Sr. Mgr. WHS Design & Startup (Europe).

The extent of your duties will include:

• Support Amazon facilities by performing suitable and sufficient risk assessments for legacy and new launch sites.

• Be the strong WHS technical voice, during projects development to ensure compliance with Amazon standards and regulatory requirements. This includes leading safety technical reviews and risk assessments for all new equipment systems.

• Manage the intake of request for support and prioritise the process to suit operational requirements where needed, engaging and managing the involvement of the inspection team with the projects.

• Provide functional working links with other critical functional teams including; Engineering, Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, Procurement, New Build Safety and Real Estate teams.

• Conduct site WHS assessments to ensure all applicable requirements are considered into installation. Create punch lists items using Amazon tools and effectively review corrective measures with relevant teams to ensure mitigation is completed to reduce all risk to an acceptable level.

• Keep tracking data up to date for the inspection program.

• Validate geographically specific real estate standards or World Wide/Geographically specific Building Design Standards are incorporated into the construction/remodeling of a site.

• Support the development of solutions that meet Amazon high standards for safety, risk reduction, customer satisfaction, efficiency, scalability, simplicity, and operational excellence.

• Support the delivery of central Health and Safety pro-active objectives.

• Escalate significant concerns and lessons learned identified during inspections and subsequent 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 own travel applying frugality and efficiency of time on sites.

Basic Qualifications:
- Experience in a similar role of machinery inspection.
- Robotics and Material Handling Equipment (MHE) knowledge.
- In-depth understanding of the EU Machine Directive 2006/42/EC and its relevant harmonized standards.
- Comprehension and practical application of risk assessments.
- Demonstrable record of managing machinery safety inspections across large multi-site businesses.
- Credibility and be able to effectively engage and influence other functional leaders and their teams, to build buy-in to EU Health and Safety strategies and change processes.
- Used to operating at all levels of the organization from warehouse floor to senior management.
- Solid oral and written communication skills.
- Proficient in use of Microsoft Office and other computer-based tools to support system engineering and briefing/proposal development activities.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience of working for a Notified or Approved body for Machinery Safety
- Qualified to NEBOSH Diploma level or equivalent, preferably gained in a low margin, high volume environment with warehousing and logistics beneficial.
- Formal training certification in Machinery Safety (such as CMSE)
- Experience implementing lean principles and process improvement in an operational environment.
- TUV Certified Functional Safety Engineer.
- Experience interacting with cross functional teams and managing projects with minimal supervision.

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