Health & Safety Manager, WHS

DESCRIPTION

At Amazon we believe that every day is still day one; a day to take a first step; a day to look forwards to new challenges; and today is that day for you. It’s your day to be part of something great; a day to make your ideas come to life; and your day to join a company that redefines itself every day. That’s the energy and passion behind Amazon.

We are currently looking to hire a Safety Manager to join the team and play a critical role in supporting the EHS function for one of our logistic sites. The successful candidate will be an experienced, innovative, hands-on and customer obsessed individual, passionate about Safety and able to drive strategy to build an engaging safe environment, identify, coordinate and drive improvements in Safety whilst engaging Operational and other Support Function stakeholders.

Key job responsibilities
Key Tasks & Responsibilities:

· Contributing to the EHS Team to ensure delivery of Safety performance in line with personal, team and functional goals and objectives, facilitating and/or arranging training programs on critical EHS issues

· Supporting the implementation of EHS programs within Operations

· Supporting the site with key risk assessment activities

· Supporting the business to ensure compliance to local and EU legislation

· Ensuring that EHS systems are kept accurate at all time with completed incident reports and all required supporting documentation, with metrics compiled on key data points to help the EHS Manager prepare/issue regular and ad hoc reports and metric documents

· Building strategies to create a safety cultural environment and drive injuries to zero with the construction of incident prevention programs, contributing to site requests to improve on site Safety and positively impact accident trends

· Participating in the EU EHS Safety Audit program

· Coordinating and training of new Safety coordinator team members

· Arranging, facilitating and contributing to Safety Steering Committee meetings

· Arranging and conducting basic surveys and checks in the SC environment, SC processes, Safety supplies and on employee behaviours

· Any other reasonable request

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

– 5+ years of increasing responsibilities in EHS or environmental programs in manufacturing, production, or service operations experience
– Bachelor’s degree
– Experience leading multiple direct reports or multiple sites

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

– Experience implementing lean principles and process improvement in an operational environment
– Experience in a distribution center or manufacturing EHS with mix of exempt and non-exempt employees at a site of at least 250 people