# Senior Workplace, Health and Safety (WHS) Manager

**Company**: Amazon
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3884

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## Description

As a Senior Workplace, Health and Safety (WHS) Manager at Amazon, you will play a key role in driving strategic improvements across your sites and at a regional level.

You will lead and develop your team, set the safety agenda, and partner with senior leadership to embed a culture of safety and inclusivity across your operations.

Key responsibilities:

- Manage onsite teams and collaborate cross-functionally to ensure compliance with health and safety laws, guidelines, and company policies.

- Use internal reporting tools to analyze data and provide leadership with information to make safety-related decisions.

- Develop, implement, and maintain safety training programs, ergonomics initiatives, and prevention programs to improve the safety culture.

- Perform risk assessments for new processes and machines, review changes to standardized processes, and update existing risk assessments.

- Promote commitment to occupational health and safety measures among management and employees to foster a strong safety culture.

Your role is instrumental in keeping employees safe, managing their satisfaction, and supervising their wellbeing and productivity.

The Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) team plays a crucial role in keeping our people mentally and physically well at work.

Basic qualifications:

- Experience in English-language communication skills, both written and verbal.

- A degree, or equivalent level of qualification in-line with the European Qualifications Framework (EQF), in the Occupational Safety field.

- A NEBOSH Diploma or an IOSH Diploma is required.

- Relevant experience complying with local Health and Safety legislation.

- Relevant experience managing a team.

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience with Lean, 5S or Kaizen methodologies.

- Experience planning or managing environmentally conscious initiatives.

- Membership of a professional body in the field of occupational health and safety.

- Experience managing and communicating with a wide range of stakeholders, including your peers, reports and leadership.

## Skills

### Required
- health and safety management
- team leadership
- data analysis
- risk assessment
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- Lean
- 5S
- Kaizen
- environmental initiatives
- stakeholder management

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