Senior Safety Engineer, Amazon Robotics EHS, Robotics Technology

3 weeks ago

Pittsburgh, United States Amazon.com Services LLC Full time
Amazon Robotics’ Environmental Health and Safety Team is seeking a Senior Safety Engineer to support our automation technology development and manufacturing teams. This role will provide technical safety expertise and leadership associated with innovation and ideation phases as well as the manufacturing and production system by driving a systematic approach to identify, mitigate and manage risk to meet Amazon, regulatory and industry standards.

This role will functionally partner internally with Manufacturing, System Integration, Innovation, HW, Design and Functional Safety Engineering, Controls, SW, Program, Deployment and Site EHS teams, and externally with 3Ps, Integrators, NRTLs, etc. Role may require travel up to 15% of the time.

Key job responsibilities
• Establish and communicate safety requirements and specifications for Manufacturing/Production System and Innovation labs based on Amazon, regulatory, and harmonized industry standards
•Develop and drive safety and compliance roadmap for manufacturing/production system. Make use of strong skills for building consensus and alignment between internal and external partners on project safety goals, balancing the needs of the many stakeholders involved, including considerations on safety, security, reliability, cost, and maintainability.
•Lead and support innovation and production system teams and 3Ps to deliver safe design for various build, commission and test phases per regulatory requirements such as OSHA/NRTL/Machinery Directive, as well as industry standards such as ISO 12100/ANSI B11/NFPA 79/IEC 60204/ISO 13849/other applicable standards such as ANSI B30.13/EN 528/ANSI RIA R15.06/R15.08/ISO10218/EN.
•In collaboration with our Innovation, Manufacturing and Site EHS teams, investigate incidents or unexpected behavior with the technology in our buildings and develop concrete proposals to mitigate and prevent future incidents.
•Develop approaches to risk analysis for robotics and integrated systems including unintentional risks they create during manufacturing.
•Build a safety culture that enables and supports our technical engineering teams to develop and deploy 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’s high standards for safety, risk reduction, customer satisfaction, efficiency, scalablability, simplicity, and operational excellence.
•Participate in legal team meetings, communicating and defending program, and organizational-level risk to business leaders, regulators and industry associations.
•Maintain and leverage industry partnerships to support safety engineering programs.
•Apply project management skills to manage scope, define technical requests, research appropriate expertise required, identify the relevant teams and members to coordinate resource deployment on tasks, analyze risks and develop mitigation strategies to proactively identify and resolve issues.

A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Austin, TX, USA | Boston, MA, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | North Reading, MA, USA | Pittsburgh, PA, USA | Seattle, WA, USA | Westborough, MA, USA

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

•Bachelor’s degree in engineering, safety or related field
•10+ years’ experience in safety engineering programs in manufacturing or production environment
•Experience working within a global company, with global or multi-country responsibilities
•Deep knowledge and experience of safety risk assessment, functional safety analysis and electrical safety
•Strong ability to represent, verbally and in writing, technical information, risk levels, complex decisions, and potential solutions in clear simple language to business and other stakeholders to enable decision making
•Deep knowledge and extensive experience of driving safety systematically into production systems
•Working knowledge and experience with National Recognized Test Laboratory (NRTL) and Notified Bodies.
•Working knowledge of International and EU/NA Standards such as EU Machinery Directive, ISO, IEC, ANSI, NFPA, UL, OHSA, CFR, NFPA, ANSI, FCC
•Demonstrated ability to be flexible, adapting the approach to meet the needs of customers, business and program stakeholders, and engineering teams involved
•Able to think big, insist on high standards and deliver results
•Ability to self-manage priorities and deliverables. Flexible in responding to changing demands, goals, timelines, and priorities
•Ability to collaborate and lead in a flexible, detail-oriented, fast-paced team environment in a changing and growing organization
•Ability to interact in a positive and professional manner, excellent critical thinker with problem-solving skills, think big and insist on highest standard while having the ability to work cooperatively in a team setting

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

•Master’s degree preferred in related safety or engineering fields
•Experience participating on relevant standard development committees and other industry groups

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