Workplace Health and Safety Technical Solutions Team is seeking a Principal Safety Engineer. This role will lead strategic initiatives and business partnerships globally. This role will carry the engineering vision and strategy to drive consistency in implementing and managing our process management safety risks across WW Operations with particular focus in hydrogen fuel use and associated safety risks. This role will functionally partner with all engineering teams to drive a systematic approach to address risk identification, mitigation, and management of safety solutions. Role may require travel approximately 50% of the time (domestic and global).

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Providing process safety leadership to all Amazon business units regulated by Amazon and determine if potential projects are safe/acceptable within Amazon’s risk profile.

- Creating tools for compliance with Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) Process Safety Management (PSM) requirements including Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) for inspection, analysis, identification and prioritization of potential process hazards as well as other safety requirements with be required.

- Evaluation of process safety risk and recommending controls, coordinating the development of Process Safety Information, and serving as point of contact for, and collaborating with, internal and external stakeholders and technical resources on control solutions.

- Training, coaching, and mentoring others involved in process safety improvement activities including developing and providing training on process safety topics and developing and reporting process safety leading metrics and best practices is also required.

- Leading and/or participating on incident investigations that are related to PSM, risk assessment teams, and EHS self-assessments and/or audits is a job responsibility.

- Supporting site wide Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) programs, systems, and processes including a willingness to be on-call for emergencies is needed.








Key job responsibilities
Attributes we look for in a candidate:
- 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

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!


About the team
Our Mission: The Global PSM team’s mission is to ensure the safe design and reliable operation of facilities that contain or use Highly Hazardous Chemicals (HHCs). Our mission is to provide the necessary support so Amazon can achieve the 2040 Climate Pledge responsibly and in a manner that safeguards the safety of our associates and the community at large.

Program Strategy: the team focus is on building a safety program that reduces the HHC risks at Amazon to as low as reasonably possible. To do so, we are working to establish process safety frameworks in four important aspects of HHC processes:
Technology – Process Safety Information, Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Safe work practices
Facilities – Mechanical Integrity, Pre-Start-up Safety Reviews, Management of Change (MOC)
Personnel – Process Safety Training, Process Safety Incident Investigations
Audit and Assurance – Monitor program performance and maturation

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

Bellevue, WA, USA