WHS Manager

One focus area of the Amazon Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) mission is to provide tools, resources, and environments that support safe, efficient, healthy behaviors and encourage employees to proactively manage their health and wellbeing.

To support this focus area, Amazon is seeking an experienced and innovative Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) Manager (Night shift) to join our team at our first robotics site in Australia in Western Sydney. The WHS Manager (night shift) will report to the senior site WHS Manager and will be responsible for partnering with an Operations Team across evening / night shifts to execute company WHS policies and ensure compliance to all applicable local, regional and federal regulations. This individual will lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce conditional and ergonomic risk in our processes to ensure a safe and healthful working environment for our associates. The WHS Manager (Night Shift) must demonstrate the ability to build trust and confidence with the Operations Team and influence change through providing comprehensive risk assessments and WHS data analysis.

Key job responsibilities
• Possess a thorough understanding of local/regional regulations and company policy.
• Provide guidance and oversight to ensure compliance to all applicable Amazon WHS Policies.
• Measure site’s performance against published requirements in WHS policies. For all deficiencies, identify a plan for the site to implement and fix all identified deficiencies. Drive accountability for the plan on their shift.
• Analyze WHS metrics and review incident trends to justify the allocation of appropriate resources to areas where the WHS risk is highest.
• Perform frequent site WHS audits to identify all non-compliant equipment and/or processes at the site. Implement solutions to eliminate exposure to these risks and prevent injury at other sites. Review all changes to ensure new equipment and process are compliant.
• Audit recordkeeping practices and Austin/Gensuite (WHS Databases) entries to ensure compliance to global WHS standards and regulations.
• Audit the workplace organization and Associate behaviors to ensure that training, auditing and scoring methods are accurate and consistent
• 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 WHS training.
• Must be able to work flexible shifts which could include day, nights, and weekends. This role is based on a fixed schedule evening/night shift.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Kemps Creek, NSW, AUS

- A Bachelor's Degree or 2+ years Amazon experience.
- 5+ years of increasing responsibilities in WHS and/or environmental programs in manufacturing, production, or service operations
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including comfort interfacing with site leaders.
- Ability to develop and implement department goals and strategies.
- Strong analytical skills with demonstrated problem solving ability.