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Amazon Regional Safety Engineer, Data Center Health and Safety in Hilliard, Ohio
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About AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses.
Join the world class safety culture at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and be part of supporting the largest cloud computing infrastructure team as a Regional Safety Engineer in the Northern Virginia, USA region. As a Regional Safety Engineer, you will lead the Health and Safety function of your assigned area. You will be responsible for advancing safety culture and improving the health and safety of our data centers, by protecting our employees through safety incident prevention, investigation, and mitigation. Each day you will work with our data center community, the people who make the cloud go. They are working with electrical switching equipment, large scale air handling and mechanical systems, and critical IT gear. You will work closely with experts in security, construction, operations, logistics, compliance, corporate counsel, and human resources to further the global health safety program. You will use data to evaluate trends related to leading and lagging indicators to help your customer focus on safety, our organization's number one tenet. You will partner with employees as well as contractors to achieve health and safety goals and improve our already strong safety culture. As AWS increases data capacity you will partner with construction managers to ensure risks are identified and mitigated prior to live operations. You will work in a fast-paced environment where our operations are rapidly changing, advocating safe changes in the face of new infrastructure, new tools, and new products/processes.
Key job responsibilities
Daily interactions with our customers delivering health and safety leadership and guidance
Implement health and safety standards, policies and practices including, but not limited to; safety management systems, training, risk assessments, and applicable safety regulations
Assist with industrial hygiene and ergonomics assessments.
Conduct health and safety audits of data centers and active construction sites to ensure compliance with health and safety requirements as well as life safety requirements
Ensure compliance and implementation of global health and safety programs that exceed regulatory requirements.
Develop health and safety plans for on-site emergencies, business continuity, and other unique events.
Maintain adequate safety record keeping and data integrity.
Perform data trend analysis to present to cluster leadership to support business and safety initiatives.
Consult and partner with compliance and legal teams for interpretations and guidance.
Identify risks and partner with Operations to permanently mitigate them via the hierarchy of controls.
About the team
Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we celebrate our differences. Our employee-led affinity groups reach tens of thousands of employees around the world, furthering our culture of inclusion and influencing our innovative employee benefit offerings. We host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, that help us think bigger to seek diverse perspectives, learn, and be curious.
Mentorship & Career Growth
We have a career path for you no matter what stage you’re in when you start here. We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance
We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud
Basic Qualifications
Minimum four year college degree in a health and safety, physical science, related field or equivalent experience in health and safety management.
3 or more years with a degree, or 5 or more years without a degree of field health and safety experience in general industry or construction.
1 or more years of experience designing, revising, and implementing health and safety processes and procedural documentation.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting technical groups such as IT, Engineering, and facility management.
Experience supporting physical plant operations including electrical and mechanical systems
CSP or CIH certification.
Working knowledge of the NFPA70E Standard and experience providing safety guidance for those working on medium voltage electrical systems.
Experience with detailed hazard recognition and preparation of written assessments/proactive remedies.
Knowledge of applicable region specific federal, state, and local health and safety regulations (OSHA standards).
High ethical standards with proven ability to handle highly confidential and sensitive information; excellent judgment, discretion and diplomacy.
Self-directed and driven to deliver with quality.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presenting information to leadership within AWS.
Excellent problem solving skills; self driven to develop quick, scrappy control measures.
Strong proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and aptitude for learning additional software tools.
Ability to develop and implement department goals and strategies.
Understands/Practices Amazon’s Leadership Principles found here: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/principles
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please visit https://www.amazon.jobs/en/disability/us.
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