Health Safety Sciences Manager, AWS Health and Safety

Global Health And Safety Sciences Manager

Join the world class safety culture at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and be part of supporting the largest cloud computing infrastructure team. We are looking for a manager for the Global Health and Safety Sciences team who will be responsible for managing a team of Certified Industrial Hygienists (CIH), ergonomist (Ergo), and Electrical Safety Subject matter experts. This role will drive a strategic approach to delivering high-level safety technical services for the AWS Safety team, strategic team leadership and development, setting and driving team vision and objectives, mentoring and growing talent, managing team performance and career development.

The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated manager with a solid knowledge in Industrial Hygiene (IH) and ergonomics (Ergo), and a proven track record of managing, deploying, and executing global safety IH and Ergo programs. They will have a history of building partnerships with diverse teams across multiple jurisdictions. The candidate must have the ability to define clear requirements in ambiguity, proactively educate team members, leaders, and other support teams, and communicate effectively and consistently throughout all levels of the business. The role will evolve with the maturity and growth of the program and requires a high degree of flexibility, including the ability to deep dive into time critical programs and projects, manage a team, and deliver continuous improvement actions.

The AWS Health and Safety (H&S) team is an expanding a dynamic team that is critical to enabling AWS's growth around the world, as well as ensuring compliance of AWS's global operations, including physical data centers, as well as other AWS facilities, customer-facing enterprises and products. The H&S team is responsible for architecting and implementing AWS's global safety programs. This includes defining and implementing risk management and compliance systems and driving their continuous improvement; setting and refining global policies and procedures; overseeing the development of standards, tools, auditing and metrics, and employee training; ensuring effective engagement by H&S teams on global initiatives, including those that are part of Amazon's ambitious sustainability goals; providing specialist expertise; and engaging with all AWS business units to provide scalable and H&S compliance strategies that support current and future business objectives while ensuring employee safety and compliance with H&S regulations.

Key job responsibilities include managing and overseeing a team of CIHs and Ergonomists; defining organizational level IH risk assessment methodology and IH risk tolerances for the globe; responsible for developing and implementing new strategic and programmatic controls for existing or emerging complex IH risks; engaging cross organizationally with leadership and front-line teams to design IH and Ergo program controls and testing strategy; earning trust of senior leadership by proactively engaging to understand the business, identify emerging risks, and develop risk mitigation strategies; providing technical guidance and solution for global / complex problems; applying IH and Ergo principles into real life complex problems using modeling, data and other methods to eliminate or reduce risk of injury / illness; using data and scientific literature to facilitate and drive business decisions; maintaining subject matter mastery and current industry knowledge to advise senior leadership on emerging trends and regulatory requirements with potential impacts to the business strategic roadmap; establishing and leveraging industry partnerships in order to drive innovation in approaches to IH and Ergo to redefine industry best practices; adapting to fast-paced environments with changing circumstances, direction, strategy and deadlines; high ethical standards with proven ability to handle highly confidential and sensitive information; excellent judgment, discretion and diplomacy; exhibiting excellent problem-solving skills, high judgment and attention to detail; ensuring record keeping is maintained and providing accurate reporting and metrics to support business safety initiatives; budget management and resource planning; travel up to 25%.