Health and Safety Auditor, AWS Health and Safety in Whitehall

For more than 14 years, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud computing platform. Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of IT resources over the Internet. Instead of buying, owning, and maintaining physical data centers and servers, companies can access technology services, such as computing power, storage, and databases, on an as-needed basis from AWS.

AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones across 24 geographic regions. AWS services are trusted by millions of active customers around the world to power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower costs.

The AWS EHS team is an expanding and dynamic team that is critical to enabling AWS’s growth around the world, as well as ensuring compliance of AWS’s global operations, including physical data centers, as well as other AWS facilities, customer-facing enterprises and products. The EHS team has responsibility for architecting and implementing AWS’s global environmental and safety programs. This includes defining and implementing risk management and compliance systems and driving their continuous improvement; setting and refining global policies and procedures; overseeing the development of standards, tools, auditing and metrics, and employee training; ensuring effective engagement by environmental and health & safety teams on global initiatives; providing specialist expertise; and engaging with all AWS business units to provide scalable and effective environmental and health & safety compliance strategies that support current and future business objectives while ensuring employee safety and compliance with environmental and health & safety regulations.

We are looking for a Health and Safety (H&S) Auditor who will be responsible for driving a systematic approach to delivering high-level, programmatic requirements of the AWS Safety Management Program (SMP), with a focus on defining the program structures, ownership, auditing mechanisms, policies and procedures necessary to formally measure, evaluate and improve individual and organizational H&S performance. The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated individual with a solid knowledge foundation in safety management systems, local and regional safety standards, and a proven track record of designing & improving safety programs & policies. They will have a history of building partnerships with diverse teams across multiple jurisdictions. The candidate must have the ability to define clear requirements in ambiguity, proactively educate team members, leaders, and other support teams, and communicate effectively and consistently throughout all levels of the business. The role will evolve with the maturity and growth of the SMP and requires a high degree of flexibility, including the ability to deep dive time critical programs, manage compliance assurance, and deliver continuous improvement actions.

Key job responsibilities

• Plan and conduct audits of the SMP including on-site verification and remote assessments
• Develop programs, standards, tools, or best practice documentation reflective of regulatory requirements and current-state operations
• Support SMP initiatives and programs, including the initial communication and implementation of SMP
• Act as the subject matter expertise for SMP related questions
• Partner with local operational staff in communication, training, and execution of the SMP
• Provide timely communications to data center (DC) Operations leadership when needed
• Provide SMP program-level training and coaching to local operational staff to ensure technical competence across the region
• Follow up to ensure that corrective actions are implemented where necessary
• Act as a resource to field operations on regulatory compliance documentation to ensure accurate and up to date adherence to SMP requirements
• Implement and oversee SMP related performance metric reporting and communication
• Partner with DC support functions such as DC H&S, Legal, Engineering, Human Resources, Procurement, etc. to continuously capture opportunities for improvement, and facilitate the implementation of these improvements
• Act as a subject matter expert in safety and health standards, possess excellent safety program management skills, and be an effective communicator capable of sending clear, concise, and consistent messages both verbally and in writing.
• Travel estimated at 20-40%.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Experience in compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent
• Experience handling confidential information

Preferred qualification

• Professional auditing qualification, or similar risk or compliance credentials
• Experience with SQL and Excel
• Experience in program requirements definition, together with data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements

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