Amazon Principal Systems Manager Facilities Engineering Construction 

United States, Washington, Bellevue 

647405610

Key job responsibilities
• Lead key elements of the development and year on year execution of global safety engineering strategy, including defining strategic objectives, goals, and metrics as well as ensuring data driven approach to measuring performance
• Provided a systematic approach to technical project intake and management by creating mechanisms to rank and prioritize projects.
• Develop safety engineering systems and processes that drive a consistent and harmonized approach across BU’s and geographies
• Develop approaches to risk modeling and analysis for mechatronics and integrated systems.
• Work with WHS teams, technical engineering teams, operations to specify safety or other risk-related requirements for projects.
• Support complex risk programs where the organization or business problem and risks strategy are not defined, or where endemic problems surface.
• Engage in creative, out-of-the-box thinking about ways that mechatronics and safety systems and potential impacts, especially for unintentional risks they create.
• Make use of strong skills for building consensus and alignment on project safety goals, balancing the needs of the many stakeholders involved, including considerations on safety, , reliability, cost, and maintainability.
• In partnership with our stakeholders, investigate incidents or unexpected behavior with mechatronics in our buildings and develop concrete proposals to mitigate and prevent future incidents
• Contribute to developing and implementing safety engineering norms and procedures in ways that is scalable.
• Contribute to further building a safety culture that enables our technical engineering teams develop safe and compliant products, systems and solutions.
• Identify gaps/opportunities in processes, and organizations (e.g., workflows, risk assessments, controls, etc.) 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
• Support technical review of Global Safety Engineering Standards and Specifications, along with subordinate documents (e.g. procedures) and processes (e.g. risk methodologies).
• Participate in legal team meetings, communicating and defending program, and organizational-level risk to business leaders, regulators and industry associations (where applicable).
• Partnering, maintain and leverage industry partnerships to support safety engineering programs.
A day in the life1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

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

Master’s degree preferred in related safety engineering field
Experience participating on relevant standard development committees (i.e. ISO, IEC, Machinery Directive) and other industry groups
Six Sigma Black Belt, Lean manufacturing or process improvement certification/s