Safety Specialist, WHS

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Description

Year-on-year, as we continue to grow, we need to work as smart as we can, to keep all our team members fulfilled, motivated and empowered. With your Bias for Action, we'll need you to step in and take real ownership of Health and Safety in one of our Fulfilment Centres.

Our Fulfilment Centres are at the heart of Amazon's rapidly growing business: they're where we handle our fast-moving inventory. Our associate teams stow deliveries, pick products, package them up and ship them out: each of these groups have played their part in taking us where we are today.

It's in this logistics environment that we will need an experienced Safety Specialist to play a critical role. You will be supervising overall Health and Safety standards in this Fulfilment Centres, while also working towards the continuous improvement of functionality and efficiency.

Your Responsibilities

You will be coordinating key aspects of output: people management, metrics, productivity targets, and process improvements. The extent of your responsibilities will include:

• Handling Health and Safety and employee satisfaction at your Fulfilment Centres, including supervising employee wellbeing and productivity.
• Effectively collaborating on Health and Safety projects, across various Operations sites.
• Providing authoritative guidance on Health & Safety matters to all stakeholders, especially on those relating to your designated area of responsibility.
• Review and audit arrangements for Health & Safety management, while continuously improving these arrangements where appropriate.
• Plan and implement work systems around reducing Health and Safety risks, e.g. recommending suitable adaptations to machinery and processes.
• Ensure robust reporting regimes are in place for Health and Safety statistics.
• Provide management with information and statistics related to your area of responsibility.
• Support business change, via effective change management processes in the context of your Fulfilment Centre's flexible environment
• Direct behavioral culture change programs, across a large, complex, multi-shift operation.
• Implement and review Amazon's global safety policies, ensuring that local legislative requirements are also met
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 1+ years of workplace health & safety (WHS) related field experience
• High school or equivalent
• Experience using Microsoft Word in a professional capacity
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in emergency response
• Experience in worker's compensation case management