Senior Workplace, Health and Safety (WHS) Manager

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.