Workplace Health and Safety Manager

Job 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, well need you to step in and take real ownership of Health and Safety in one of our FulfilmentCentres.Our Fulfilment Centres are at the heart of Amazons rapidly growing business: theyre where we manage 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 partin taking us where we are today.Its in this logistics environment that we will need an experienced Health and Safety Manager to play a critical role. You will be managing overall Health and Safety standards in this Fulfilment Centres, while also working towards the continuous improvementof functionality and efficiency.Your responsibilities:You will be managing key aspects of output: people management, metrics, productivity targets, and process improvements. The extent of your duties will include: Managing Health and Safety and employee satisfaction at your Fulfilment Centres, including supervising employee wellbeing and productivity, Proactively collaborating on Health and Safety projects, across all UK-based 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 strategise 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 Centres fast-paced environment, Drive behavioural culture change programmes, across a large, complex, multi-shift operation, Implement and review Amazons global safety policies, ensuring that local legislative requirements are also met.BASIC QUALIFICATIONSBasic Qualifications Educated to degree level, and/or qualified to NVQ5/NEBOSH Diploma level: you have significant Health and Safety experience, ideally gained in a logistics environment Youre a chartered member of an industry body representing the interest of Human Resources, such as IOSH (CMIOSH) or equivalent Flexible approach to work, while always managing your own priorities and workload Youre able to effectively lead and manage a team You possess excellent communication and influencing skills: youre also results-oriented and tenacious Youre also comfortable communicating at all levels of seniority within a large organisation You possess an in-depth understanding of EU & UK Health and Safety legislation You can quickly build credibility, using your influencing skills and strategies to build buy-in for change Demonstrable record of driving significant change through an operation.PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONSYou own the below as well Even better! You possess experience of Lean, 5S and Kaizen methodologies, Qualifications or experience of environmentally-conscious initiatives would be advantageous.Were looking forward to receiving your application, preferably in English. Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experienceand skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Amazon takes your personal data protection seriously and respects EU and local data protection laws. Unless you express otherwise, by submitting your CV you authorize the hiring Amazoncompany to store your personal data in the electronic database maintained by Amazon Corporate LLC. in the USA or one of its affiliates for the purpose of assessing your suitability for this and future job vacancies and to pursue your recruiting process. Ifat any time you want your personal data to be deleted, you simply need to notify the hiring Amazon company. Amazon will not share your personal data with any third party without your prior consent. As part of your interview process with Amazon you may be askedto authorize the hiring Amazon company to separately verify your application data and personal background through a third party service provider.