Manager, Safety Design Engineering, Workplace Health & Safety

Step into a pivotal leadership role within the Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) organization as the Manager Safety Design Engineering. What sets this role apart is its direct influence on how Amazon designs safe systems at a global scale. You wont just manage a teamyoull shape the technical direction for eliminating hazards from Amazons buildings equipment automation and high-energy systems.

You will lead engineers who define how safety is engineered into new technologies and facility designs guide partners through safety-critical decisions and represent WHS in early architectural reviews and major capital programs. Youll influence long-range planning network design strategy and vendor engagements ensuring safety is established as a core engineering requirement. The team owns the safety-related elements of Amazons designs embedding hazard-elimination and risk-reduction principles into engineering decisions.

What makes this role unique is the range of challenges youll solve cross-organizational technical conflicts addressing ambiguous engineering problems and shaping the safety architecture for emerging automation and high-energy systems. This is a high-leverage position where a single decision can impact safety outcomes across Amazons global operations network.

Key job responsibilities
Lead manage and develop a team that owns WHS design standards and the safety-related elements of Amazons 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 mechanismsstandards analytical models specifications templates and calculatorsthat 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.

A day in the life
This roles primary focus is making sure Amazon designs safe systems. Youll lead a team of engineers who set safety standards build mechanisms and guide early design decisions for buildings automation MHE and high-energy systems. Day to day youll partner with Amazons Engineering and Operations teams to review concepts resolve design conflicts validate assumptions and decide whether proposals meet safety requirements. Youll improve standards templates and calculators and tackle ambiguous engineering problems with no precedent. At times youll step into escalations or pilot deployments where decisions have network-wide impact.

About the team
Our mission is clear: embed safety into Amazons operations from day zero. This team ensures every building automation platform and MHE system begins with Prevention-through-Design and hazard elimination as core engineering requirements. Our vision is a global network where safety performance and innovation advance together. As part of this team you will define the standards models and mechanisms that guide upstream system design across Amazon. You will work directly with Amazons talented Engineering and Operations teams to solve complex design challenges and shape how new technologies are introduced safely reliably and at scale.

- Bachelors 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.

- Masters 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

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $135900/year in our lowest geographic market up to $234900/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.