Job summary
The Regional Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) Manager will be responsible for
partnering with a regional operations team in our Amazon Heavy & Bulky (AMXL)
Network to execute company WHS policies and ensure compliance to all
applicable health and safety regulations. By leveraging principles of modern
day safety science such as human performance, this individual will lead
continuous improvement initiatives and influence operational leaders and
support their teams to ‘operationalise’ safety to reduce safety risk in our
processes, supporting the provision of a safe and healthy working environment
for our Associates.
The successful candidate must be able to build trust and inspire confidence
with their operations team. Influence change by being able to clearly
articulate how and why. Successfully support the building of risk foresight
into our operational practices and be able to analyse safety data.
They must be an effective communicator and send clear, concise and consistent
messages, both verbally and in writing. They must support and develop senior
operational leaders on WHS theory, practice, policies and assist the EU
regional teams in embedding, simplifying and innovating our WHS standards
throughout their sites.
This role will be a single threaded leader focusing on compliance across AMXL
EU Operations.
Key job responsibilities
• Possess a thorough understanding of UK & EU Health and safety regulations
and company policies.
• Provide guidance and oversight to assure compliance to all applicable Amazon
WHS Policies.
• Measure the regions and sites’ performance against published requirements in
WHS policies and identify improvement plans for the site to close all
identified gaps.
• Ensure WHS record keeping and data integrity and provides operations with
accurate reporting (lead and lag) metrics to support business WHS initiatives.
• Deliver projects on time to a high standard with operations.
• Analyse WHS metrics to identify trends to justify the allocation of
appropriate resources to areas where the safety risk is highest.
• Analyse Global Safety Peer Review results and develop and implement
solutions to eliminate exposure to these risks and prevent injury at other
FCs.
• 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.
• Ensure our WHS talent is developed and their thinking is challenged to be
constantly at the front of professional practice.
• Review the effectiveness of deployed WHS tools so they are simplified for
use and are adding value.
• Partner with corporate and other regional field WHS personnel to leverage
global WHS best practices into EUUK network standards.
### BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
· several years of increasing responsibilities in health and safety programs
in manufacturing, production, or service operations.
· BSc in safety, ergonomics or a related field required
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including comfort
interfacing with Directors and VPs
· Ability to develop and implement department goals and strategies based on
broader organisation goals.
· Strong analytical skills with demonstrated problem solving ability.
· Ability to travel up to 40%
### PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
· Health and Safety , Master’s degree or equivalent preferred
· Chartered Member of IOSH preferred (or equivalent), working towards will be
considered
· Experience in a fast-paced, changinggrowing organization
· Handle changing priorities, able to work with ambiguity and use of good
judgment in high paced environment.
· Interest in long-term career development through assignments in multiple FCs
across the nation and globally
· Prior experience in a leadership development training program
· Track record of effectively leading an operation comprising both salaried
and hourly staff
· Develop others into higher levels of leadership in an organization
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