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Senior Manager, WHS Design & Startup

Amazon· WHS Design, Construction & Startup
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Nashville, TN, Bellevue, WA, Arlington, VA, Tinton Falls, NJ$136.2k - $184.3kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Senior Manager responsible for leading WHS design, construction and startup activities for new Amazon facilities. Partners with Site Operations and New Site Project teams to implement WHS policies, ensure regulatory compliance, manage a team of safety engineers, and drive end-to-end safety in design across launch projects and existing facilities.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and monitor the WHS start-up plan for all new facilities.
  • Deep Dive trends and design improvements to develop proposed action plans to Sr. Leadership
  • Advise senior leaders on emerging trends internally and externally and potential impact on roadmaps and strategy.
  • Maintain organizational safety engineering risk assessment methodology including risk tolerances and make recommendations to senior management.
  • Support new launches by performing suitable risk assessments when appropriate.
  • Identify gaps/opportunities in or between regions, processes, and organizations 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.
  • Possess technical knowledge and engage with cross functional teams to create compliant processes.
  • Validate vendor safety solutions and ensure right first time, legally compliant safety standards for equipment.
  • Support change management processes within operations.
  • Support complex risk programs where problems are not defined.
  • Provide links with Engineering, Reliability and Maintenance, Procurement, New Build Safety and Real Estate teams.
  • Generate regular technical updates for stakeholders; provide monthly project/risk reports.
  • Serve as WHS mentor and SME for launching sites; guide site leadership and Operations.
  • Review processes with Engineering, Reliability, Maintenance, Procurement and Real Estate teams to deliver machinery and system safety standards.
  • Perform risk assessments on all equipment including Factory Acceptance Testing of new technologies.
  • Provide guidance and design standards to ensure compliance with local/state/federal standards and Amazon policies.
  • Apply ergonomics principles in equipment/process reviews.
  • Review and interpret data to develop improvement plans for new processes.
  • Conduct safety reviews of new processes and equipment; develop safety punch lists with detailed recommendations.
  • Perform Design Reviews with Worldwide Engineering and Ops Engineering in AutoCAD to design safety features into buildings/processes.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of program or project management experience
  • 10+ years of cross functional project delivery experience
  • 10+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
  • 10+ years of team management experience
  • Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to determine improvements
  • Bachelor's degree in Safety, Engineering or Environmental

Skills

Required:WHS design and startup leadershipRisk assessmentRegulatory compliancePeople management

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription)
  • Life & AD&D insurance
  • EAP & mental health support
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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