*Senior Site WHS Manager
At Amazon, we prioritize health, safety, and well-being above all else. There is
nothing more important. To support this priority, Amazon is seeking an
experienced and innovative Senior Site Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) Manager
to join our team. In this position, you will be responsible for partnering with
the site level operations team for your designated site in order to execute
company WHS policies and ensure compliance to all applicable local and regional
regulations. By leveraging lean principles and Kaizen events, you will lead
continuous improvement initiatives to reduce conditional and ergonomic risk in
Amazon’s processes to ensure a safe and healthful working environment for our
associates.
In this role, you must demonstrate the ability to build trust and confidence
with the cross functional operations teams, and influence change through
providing comprehensive risk assessments and safety data analysis. To do so, you
must be an effective communicator and send clear, concise and consistent
messages, both verbally and in writing. You will also be required to instruct
and train operations leadership and site WHS professionals in company EHS
policies while assisting the regional teams in incorporating our safety
standards at their sites. Your experience working in safety programs and your
relevant safety, environmental and ergonomic knowledge in an operations
environment will be crucial.
You will be responsible for developing a team of safety managers and safety
professionals at your designated site. Your teams’ success will depend on your
ability to create and execute leadership development plans for your larger team.
You must demonstrate your ability to clearly communicate organizational
direction through your team. As a senior leader in the WHS organization, you
will also be responsible for judging and assessing safety talent to select
appropriate bench strength for current and future business needs. Additional
responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Act as SME of local/regional regulations and company WHS policy.
• Provide guidance and oversight to ensure compliance to all applicable Amazon
Safety Policies.
• Measure site performance against published requirements in safety policies.
For all deficiencies, identify a plan for the site to implement and fix all
identified deficiencies.
• Ensure safety record keeping and data integrity and provides Operations with
accurate reporting and metrics to support business safety initiatives.
• Deliver on-time and quality projects to Operations.
• Deep Dive safety metrics and review incident weekly and monthly incident
trends to discover trends to justify the allocation of appropriate resources to
areas where the safety risk is highest.
• Deep Dive trends and propose action plans to Sr. Leadership on site.
• Audit record keeping practices and Global Safety Database entries to ensure
compliance to global safety standards and local regulations.
• Audit the workplace organization and Associate behaviors to ensure that
training, auditing and scoring methods are accurate and consistent.
• Manage and mentor the Safety Managers and Safety Associates in your assigned
site.
• Engage the Injury Prevention Specialists (IPS) and Site Leadership to drive
long-term strategic actions to achieve incident reduction.
• Perform targeted Kaizen events in partnership with the Operations teams based
on the risks identified in each task (force, repetition, and awkward postures).
• Ensure site leadership and associates are trained and knowledgeable of their
responsibilities under each policy
• Audit the quality, delivery (including qualifications of the trainer), and
effectiveness of all required safety training.
• Review for effectiveness the deployed safety tools and revise to ensure
continual improvement.
• Partner with corporate and other regional field safety personnel to leverage
global safety and environmental best practices into NA network standards.
