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Design & Startup Program Manager, WHS, WHS DCS

Amazon· Amazon.com Services LLC / WHS DCS
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Nashville, TN, Arlington, VA, Bellevue, WA$104.1k - $155.4knot specifiedPosted 2d ago

About the role

New Construction & Launch Workplace Health and Safety Program Manager responsible for partnering with Launch and Engineering teams to manage safety deliverables when opening new sites and executing start-up plans to ensure compliance with safety procedures and regulations.

Responsibilities

  • Manage and monitor the WHS start-up plan for new facilities.
  • Deep Dive trends and design improvements to develop proposed action plans to Sr. Leadership
  • 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 the ability to engage with cross functional teams, transforming this knowledge into sound, compliant processes.
  • Validate vendor proposed technical safety solutions and work with internal engineering and reliability maintenance teams to ensure right first time, legally compliant safety standards for equipment.
  • Support business change by effectively influencing change management processes within operations.
  • Support complex risk programs where the organization or business problem and risks strategy are not defined, or where endemic problems surface.
  • Provide functional working links with other critical functional teams including; Engineering, Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, Procurement, New Build Safety and Real Estate teams.
  • Generate regular technical updates for stakeholders.
  • Provide monthly reports on upcoming projects and current in-process schemes with clear analytical measures of status and risk.
  • Serve as a WHS mentor and subject matter expert for all launching sites for both WHS site leadership and Operations.
  • Review processes, including liaison with other critical support functions such as Engineering, Reliability and Maintenance Engineering, Procurement, and New Build/Real Estate teams to effectively deliver machinery and system safety standards.
  • Perform risk assessments on all equipment to include Factory Acceptance Testing of new technologies.
  • Provide guidance and design standards to ensure compliance to all applicable local/state/federal regulatory standards and Amazon Safety Policies and Procedures.
  • Possess strong understanding of Ergonomics and the ability to use these principles in the review and design of equipment/processes.
  • Review and interpret data and use this information to develop improvement plans within new processes.
  • Conduct safety reviews of all new processes and equipment. Develop safety punch list items with all applicable business partners identifying, in detail, all safety issues and recommendations on how such opportunities can be addressed both short and long-term.
  • Perform Design Reviews with Worldwide Engineering and Ops Engineering in AutoCAD to design in Safety features to the building/processes.

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of program or project management experience
  • Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
  • Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership
  • 7+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience
  • 7+ years of cross functional project delivery experience
  • 7+ years of program or project management experience
  • Bachelor's degree in safety, engineering or environmental
  • Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership

Skills

Required:Program or project managementData-driven decision makingCross-functional collaboration

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
  • Maternity and Parental Leave Options
  • Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • 401(k) Plan
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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