AMS Safety Manager, Amazon Manufacturing Services

Amazon.com Inc

Seattle, WA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Continuous Improvement, Corrective Action, Data Analysis, Documentation Standards, Ergonomics, Hazard Analysis, Industrial Hygiene, Machining, Machining Operations, Maintain Compliance, Manufacturing Management, Mentoring, Operational Audit, Problem Solving Skills, Prototyping, Risk, Risk Analysis, Safety Process, Safety/Work Safety, Technical Leadership, Testing, Training/Teaching
LOCATION
Seattle, WA
POSTED
30+ days ago

Own safety for an entire high-risk facility-driving compliance, innovation, and a world-class safety culture with minimal guidance. Be a trusted advisor and technical leader who identifies risk, influences senior leaders, and delivers scalable safety solutions that protect people and power operational excellence.

Key job responsibilities: • Own safety program execution across an entire building, including oversight of machine shop operations, equipment, and processes. • Conduct hazard analyses, risk assessments, and industrial hygiene testing (e.g., noise, dust, VOCs) with minimal guidance, and design mitigation strategies. • Lead safety audits, document findings in standard reporting tools, and influence senior leaders to take corrective actions. • Partner with operations teams to ensure safe work practices, including machine safeguarding, lockout/tagout, chemical handling, and ergonomics. • Mentor junior safety staff and act as a subject matter expert (SME) for peers across clusters or regions. • Drive safety-related continuous improvement projects where the solution or process is not well-defined, requiring high judgment and innovation. • Facilitate and deliver training on safety policies, procedures, and cultural reinforcement. • Serve as the primary safety point of contact for the building, escalating and resolving complex issues independently. • Promote a proactive, high-quality safety culture by modeling safe behaviors and engaging employees and leaders through regular interaction.

 

A Day in the Life

Your day starts on the floor, walking the building and connecting with operators, technicians, and leaders to understand real-time risks and work conditions. You observe machine shop operations, review equipment status, and proactively address hazards before they become incidents. Between floor time, you analyze safety data, complete risk assessments, and follow up on corrective actions from audits or investigations, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks.

As the day progresses, you partner closely with operations and engineering leaders-advising on machine safeguarding, lockout/tagout, ergonomics, and chemical safety decisions that directly impact productivity and employee well-being. You may lead a safety investigation, deliver targeted training, or mentor junior safety staff. By day's end, you've influenced decisions at multiple levels, driven continuous improvement, and strengthened a culture where safety and operational excellence go hand in hand.

 

About the Team

Safety is integral to the culture for AMS. We are a high-functioning prototype and production shop that serves internal Amazon customers. No day or job is the same.

About the Company

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Amazon.com Inc

At Amazon, we don’t wait for the next big idea to present itself. We envision the shape of impossible things and then we boldly make them reality. So far, this mindset has helped us achieve some incredible things. Let’s build new systems, challenge the status quo, and design the world we want to live in. We believe the work you do here will be the best work of your life.

Wherever you are in your career exploration, Amazon likely has an opportunity for you. Our research scientists and engineers shape the future of natural language understanding with Alexa. Fulfillment center associates around the globe send customer orders from our warehouses to doorsteps. Product managers set feature requirements, strategy, and marketing messages for brand new customer experiences. And as we grow, we’ll add jobs that haven’t been invented yet.

It’s Always Day 1
At Amazon, it’s always “Day 1.” Now, what does this mean and why does it matter? It means that our approach remains the same as it was on Amazon’s very first day – to make smart, fast decisions, stay nimble, invent, and stay focused on delighting our customers. In our 2016 shareholder letter, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos shared his thoughts on how to keep up a Day 1 company mindset. “Staying in Day 1 requires you to experiment patiently, accept failures, plant seeds, protect saplings, and double down when you see customer delight,” he wrote. “A customer-obsessed culture best creates the conditions where all of that can happen.” You can read the full letter here

Our Leadership Principles
Our Leadership Principles help us keep a Day 1 mentality. They aren’t just a pretty inspirational wall hanging. Amazonians use them, every day, whether they’re discussing ideas for new projects, deciding on the best solution for a customer’s problem, or interviewing candidates. To read through our Leadership Principles from Customer Obsession to Bias for Action, visit https://www.amazon.jobs/principles
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Retail
FOUNDED
1994
WEBSITE
http://Amazon.com/militaryroles