Senior Workplace Health & Safety Risk Manager #EHS #HSE, Corp - Governance, Compliance & External Affairs

Key skills

• Software Engineering
• Problem Solving
• System Design

Job description

The Worldwide Workplace Health and Safety Governance team seeks a Sr. Risk Manager, an individual contributor role, to serve as the subject matter expert for the end-to-end management of regulatory interactions across North America, requiring deep multi-jurisdictional fluency in federal and state plan enforcement, citation interpretation, penalty assessment strategy, abatement compliance, and agency correspondence including inspections, subpoenas, and complaint investigations. As a technical leader who influences without direct authority, this individual will assess and prioritize regulatory exposure, litigation risk, and financial impact across a high-volume case portfolio while driving cross-functional alignment with Legal, Operations, WHS field teams, and Standards & Procedures to ensure responses satisfy both regulatory obligations and operational feasibility. The role demands the ability to leverage serious injury data and regulatory interaction trends to inform proactive risk mitigation strategies, brief VP+ leaders on emerging risks, translate complex enforcement actions into actionable guidance for site-level teams, and advise and coach L5 case managers in building regulatory response capabilities. The successful candidate will move with urgency on time-sensitive matters while maintaining the documentation rigor and sound judgment that ensures long-term regulatory defensibility across all active matters.

Key job responsibilities

Exhibit excellent judgment

Maintain relentlessly high standards

Serve as a liaison between WW WHS Governance and all business units, such as CF WHS, GSF WHS and ATS WHS for continual alignment.

Ensure quality and timely responses to regulatory agencies.

Support building WHS competencies and awareness across different business units regarding regulatory requirements.

Use of data and case management tools to identify trends related to regulatory interactions.

Monitor performance of business units against applicable regulatory compliance and internal Amazon standards.

About the team

This is an individual contributor role at the Sr. Risk Manager level. The Sr. WHS Regulatory Response and Activity Manager will act as an advisor and coach to L5 case managers and will be responsible for case management that responds timely and accurately to environmental, safety, and health regulatory interactions. We are looking for someone who can contribute to the group's operational excellence by driving the execution of our compliance life cycle and ensuring that high quality compliance inputs are provided in the process. To be successful, one must be comfortable advising and coaching case managers working on repetitive case management tasks requiring strong judgment, have the ability to effectively communicate with Sr. Directors and VP stakeholders, both verbally and in writing, and must be able to identify and document improvement opportunities within the processes these teams work on. One must have prior work experience in a professional setting, a cooperative attitude, and organizational skills. The position requires that you be self-motivated to learn the operations and data analytics, and will involve both independent and team work in a fast-paced environment that is constantly changing.

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