Regional Safety Manager, DCC Communities

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 Manager. As the Regional Safety Manager, you will own the Health and Safety function of your respective area as well as supervise a team of Health and Safety Managers responsible for similar daily safety functions.

You will be responsible for improving the health and safety of our data centers, advancing safety culture, and protecting our employees. Each day you will work with our data center engineers, the people who make the cloud go. They are working with electrical switching equipment, large scale air handling 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 partner with employees as well as contractors to achieve health and safety goals and improve our already strong safety culture. 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.

This role is for a qualified and experienced people leader. The primary responsibilities of the role are to own the safety strategy for a multi-cluster portfolio of geographically localized data centers and to manage a team of Health and Safety Managers across those sites. You will set the vision and define the safety strategy for your regional portfolio, design the right team structure and mechanisms to meet long-term business goals, and achieve consensus on priorities with senior operations partners. The PDX portfolio is in a period of growth, expanding across established sites and builds, so you will anticipate future growth and investment needs and build a workforce strategy to match.

You will have managed a team of safety professionals and will be able to demonstrate how you improved the performance of an existing team along with displaying skills in creating or growing a team. You will manage succession planning, hiring, coaching, managing performance, and promoting. You will be knowledgeable in US occupational safety regulations, including OSHA recordkeeping requirements (29 CFR 1904), as well as industry best practices related to hazard recognition and mitigation in critical infrastructure environments.

You will be part of a regional and global team that works with internal and external partners to maintain and enhance the safety of operations. Close collaboration with onsite physical security, vendors, compliance officers, risk management, and fire/life safety systems is required. Additionally, you will work with employees and contractors to achieve specific safety objectives.

You must be an effective communicator, sending clear, concise, and consistent messages verbally, in written form, and in public speaking forums. You will write compelling strategic narratives, including QBR and operating plan inputs, and present them effectively to Directors and VPs. You will advise, instruct, and train company safety professionals, as well as operations personnel, on safety policies and procedures. You will also drive learnings from incidents to prevent recurrence across sites and raise the bar on investigation quality across your portfolio.

This role requires regular travel across a geographically distributed set of data center sites.

Key job responsibilities

- Own the safety strategy and lifecycle of complex cross-functional safety programs across a multi-cluster ADC portfolio

- Manage and develop a team of Health & Safety Managers across multiple sites and geographies.

- Implement and ensure compliance with health and safety standards, policies, and practices that meet or exceed regulatory requirements, including safety management systems, training, and risk assessments.

- Own regional MBR and QBR narratives; analyze safety metrics and trends across the portfolio, deep-dive performance gaps, and design strategic responses.

- Conduct cadenced reviews of investigation quality; ensure narratives meet IRB standards before closure and own escalation decisions for high-severity events.

- Partner with construction managers to ensure risks are identified and mitigated prior to live operations as new capacity comes online.

- Influence senior operations Directors and cross-functional partners across Facilities, Construction, Security, and Legal to drive controls adoption at scale.

- Anticipate future growth and investment needs across clusters and build workforce and succession strategy to match a rapidly scaling portfolio.

- Consult and partner with the AWS compliance and legal teams for regulatory interpretations and guidance.

- In order to be qualified for this position, you must be able to obtain and hold TS Clearance within 18 months of being in role.

- All other duties as assigned.

About the team

AWS Infrastructure Services (AIS) owns the design, planning, delivery, and operation of all AWS global infrastructure. In other words, we’re the people who keep the cloud running. We support all AWS data centers and all of the servers, storage, networking, power, and cooling equipment that ensure our customers have continual access to the innovation they rely on. We work on the most challenging problems, with thousands of variables impacting the supply chain - and we’re looking for talented people who want to help.

You’ll join a diverse team of software, hardware, and network engineers, supply chain specialists, security experts, operations managers, and other vital roles. You’ll collaborate with people across AWS to help us deliver the highest standards for safety and security while providing seemingly infinite capacity at the lowest possible cost for our customers. And you’ll experience an inclusive culture that welcomes bold ideas and empowers you to own them to completion.

Diverse Experiences

AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

Why 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.

Inclusive Team Culture

Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.

Mentorship & Career Growth

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 we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Basic qualifications

- Experience in conducting workplace risk investigations

- Experience leveraging technology to drive process improvements

- Experience managing direct reports

- Bachelor's Degree and 6+ years of occupational health and safety, compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experience OR 10+ years of equivalent experience.

Preferred qualifications

- Master's degree or equivalent

- Experience in program requirements definition, together with data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements

- Experience in safety and/or environmental programs in manufacturing, production, service operations, or related fields

- Professional safety qualification (e.g., CSP, ASP), or similar risk or compliance credentials.

- Knowledge of OSHA recordkeeping requirements (29 CFR 1904) and incident investigation methodologies.

- Experience operating in a controlled or access-restricted environment; ability to meet any site-specific access requirements.

- Experience with Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) and Excel.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, OR, Hermiston - 133,300.00 - 180,300.00 USD annually