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Compliance Assurance Risk Manager, WHS, Governance, Compliance & External Affairs

Amazon

Arlington, VAJob$74–130K/yrSeen 1 day agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$74–130K/yr
Location
Arlington, VA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Bachelor's degree

Job overview

The Workplace Health & Safety Compliance Assurance Risk Manager manages programs and processes that maintain legal compliance and conformance to internal WHS procedures. The role designs, develops, tests, implements, verifies, and improves assurance processes, partnering with business teams and subject matter experts across functions and geographies. It also supports scalable WHS compliance actions through legal research, stakeholder engagement, data analysis, investigations, root cause analysis, and risk management.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Compliance Program ManagementLegalGovernanceAuditRisk ManagementLoss PreventionConfidential Information HandlingProgram Requirements DefinitionData and MetricsProgram ImprovementProfessional AuditingSQLExcel

Qualifications

4+ Years Compliance or Related ExperienceBachelor's in Environmental Health and Safety or Related FieldProfessional Auditing Qualification or Similar Risk or Compliance CredentialMaster's in Environmental Health and Safety or Related Field3+ Years Program Requirements and Data Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Parental Leave
Paid Time Off
401(k) Match

Full job description

Description

Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) Compliance Assurance Risk Manager will be responsible for managing programs and processes that maintain legal compliance and conformance to internal WHS procedures, including assurance processes design, development, testing, implementation, verification, and continual improvement. The role will engage, collaborate, and partner with Amazon businesses, geographical units, and technical subject matter experts (SMEs) in Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) and other functions (i.e., field operations, governmental affairs, legal, engineering, data scientists and tech teams (AFT), business intelligence engineers, purchasing) to continually improve compliance. More specifically, this role will serve to assist with scalable and reliable actions for managing Workplace health and safety (WHS) compliance in different jurisdictions across the globe. The role involves self-driven, independent, and hands-on work in the areas of understanding stakeholder needs and expectations, legal research, stakeholder engagement, data analysis, investigation and root cause analysis, and risk management.

Key job responsibilities

  • Key responsibilities include defining, applying, and defending environment, health and safety compliance requirements; operating in alignment with legal or regulatory requirements; and testing, remediating, and enhancing risk management controls. Partners with legal teams to interpret and define obligations. Engage cross-organizationally with leadership to design program controls and test strategy. Influence senior leadership to implement strategic and programmatic controls.

Promote culture of environment, health and safety compliance and risk management

  • Key responsibilities include building awareness of compliance assurance programs and expectations across organizations; and acting as a continual improvement evangelist.

  • Should be an effective communicator and send clear, concise, and consistent messages, both verbally and in writing.

A day in the life

Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:

  1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage

  2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options

  3. Paid Time Off (PTO)

  4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you!

Basic Qualifications

  • 4+ years of compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experience

  • Experience handling confidential information

  • Bachelor's degree in Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) or related field

Preferred Qualifications

  • 3+ years of program requirements definition and data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements experience

  • Professional auditing qualification, or similar risk or compliance credentials

  • Experience with SQL and Excel

  • Master's degree in Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) or related field

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, VA, Arlington - 74,200.00 - 129,800.00 USD annually

How this job compares

Set against the 2,774 open Compliance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$74–130K/yr
  • Virginia median$122–184K/yr102 salary ranges
  • US median$115–185K/yr1,867 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $102K, is 37% below the Virginia median midpoint ($163K) — in the lowest quarter of Compliance salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 124 open Compliance jobs in Virginia and 2,774 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Compliance postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,352 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 1,163 of the 2,774 open Compliance jobs (42%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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