Amazon Strives to be Earth’s Best Employer and Earth’s Safest Place to work. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven safety professionals.

Amazon Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) is looking for a passionate, results-oriented WHS RME Program Manager to lead our WHS RME High-Risk Operations (HRO) program development and deployment supporting our Reliability & Maintenance Engineering (RME) across India.

The successful candidate will lead, support and provide technical SME advice on WHS RME HRO program development and deployment across all Amazon India businesses. Reporting to the RoW (Rest of world) WHS RME manager and work collaboratively with India WHS team, RME leadership, and partner with cross-functional teams delivering safe work practices and compliant workplaces consistent with India and Amazon WHS standards.

This is a role with a multi-location scope across India, providing technical support and drive implementation of WHS RME HRO programs that; encourage high engagement across all levels, drive risk reduction projects; deliver sustainable continuous performance improvements within a high-risk operation work environment.

You will demonstrate a passion and deep technical knowledge and expertise in workplace safety within a high-risk operation work environments and best practice safety standards, management system and local regulations.

This role requires travel approximately 40 % of time, based in India, Bangalore.

Key job responsibilities
• Establish partnerships with RME leadership and work closely with country and site WHS teams.
• Support RME Leadership engage with technicians and contractors, encourage active involvement through defined expectations and ownership, bias-for-action escalating safety issues, using stop work authority, and support peer review WHS programs.
• You will think big, as well as roll up your sleeves as subject matter expert who will dive deep to identify systemic gaps, provide technical advice and deploy practical solutions.
• Work with stakeholders to continuously improve WHS RME HRO program; effective deployment of standards and procedures, risk management and mitigation actions, incident management, inspection, audit & program assurance, training & communication.
• Leverage India WHS RME HRO programs to dive-deep into country risk profile and define risk mitigation actions along with RME leadership to drive risk reduction and program improvement.
• Invent and simplify new ways to raise awareness and capabilities of RME teams to reach deep understanding of the inherent RME high-risks operations to effectively mitigate risks.
• Support Contract Risk Management (CRM) program, ensuring effective program deployment at site and contractor compliance with regulatory and Amazon WHS policy requirements

A day in the life
You will be responsible for driving the India WHS RME HRO program deployment and continuous improvement ensuring the safety and well-being of our technicians, associates and third-party partners. You will work across the India Amazon business units to understand the RME operational risks and support the RME leadership teams identify, develop and deploy WHS RME High-risk mitigation actions and processes, identify new technology solutions, work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders to continuously “raise the bar” and sustainable deliver results.

About the team
Amazon Strives to be Earth’s Best Employer and Earth’s Safest Place to work Team Vision: Caring for the people who build and maintain our sites Team Mission: WHS RME High-Risk Operations will use its influence and technical capabilities to identify, evaluate and control safety risks to an acceptable level, and instill safety ownership in people to save lives and achieve world class safety performance. - Bachelor's degree
- Bachelor’s degree in workplace safety, engineering or related sciences
- 8+ years’ experience supporting workplace safety within high-risk operations.
- You are able to interface at all levels of leadership and across field organization.
- Diagnose problems, identify and drive appropriate solutions, demonstrate problem solving and analytical capability, acts decisively, promptly and confidently.
- You'll have highly developed written & verbal communication skills, analytical ability, dive deep problem solving, agility to function in a fast paced and innovative environment.
- Experience in workplace safety high risk operation program development and deployment: Fall hazard control, Electrical safe work, Hazardous energy control, Conveyors & machine Safeguarding, Confined spaces, Hot work and Hoisting & Rigging.- Master's degree
- Master’s degree in a related field and have or working towards recognized safety certifications.
- Working knowledge of India regulatory requirements and standards (ISO, etc.)
- Strong analytical skills with demonstrated problem solving ability with experience in technical, standards, or program writing.
- Six Sigma Green Belt certified or equivalent
- Ability to adapt well to fast-paced.