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The Regional WHS Manager will lead Amazon Transportation Systems’ WHS operations across multiple sort centers in India. We are looking for strong leaders who are passionate about safety and will help build a world class WHS organization and a strong WHS culture. The leader will be responsible for leading a team of safety mangers and partnering with operations teams in Sort Centers to execute the company WHS policies and ensure compliance to all applicable local and regional regulations. By leveraging lean principles and kaizens, this individual will drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce conditional and ergonomic risk in our processes to ensure a safe and healthful working environment for our Associates. The leader must demonstrate the ability to build trust and confidence with the Operations Team and influence change through providing comprehensive risk assessments and safety data analysis.
The WHS leader will be required to identify best practices and incorporate these best practices into our standards to continuously improve company safety policies. They will be required to possess excellent safety program and relevant safety, environmental and ergonomic knowledge and demonstrate this expertise when working with Operations.
The Regional WHS Manager will be responsible to lead a team of safety managers and safety teams at different fulfillment center locations in his assigned region. This individual must help execute leadership development plans for his Safety team. He must communicate safety team expectations and give frequent and appropriate feedback to the safety managers/ teams and ensure they are executing to the core competencies of an Amazon safety professional.
Key job responsibilities
The candidate shall be responsible for the following, at a minimum:
• Possess a thorough understanding of local/regional regulations and company policy.
• Measure and communicate the site's performance against published requirements in safety policies.
• Ensure site leadership is trained and knowledgeable of their responsibilities under each policy.
• Ensure site leadership is given current and regular safety information that enables them to talk about safety with their peers and Associates.
• Spend time on floor seeking input from Associates and leaders on safety improvement opportunities.
• Inform leadership when they are required to resolve a safety concern/suggestion.
• Lead proactive hazard identification and abatement efforts, communicate results and track open items to resolution.
• Ensure a timely, thorough and accurate response to uncontrolled risks once they are discovered.
Plan and carry out peer audits to ensure compliance to the organization’s safety policies.
• Analyze incident data to discover trends to justify the allocation of appropriate resources to areas where the safety risk is highest.
• Escalate risks that present an imminent danger to life or health or if the solution is either insufficient to protect Associates from harm and/or is delayed in getting fully implemented.
Performance Review
At least monthly, but more frequently, when necessary, the One-on-One meetings to be conducted with superiors and sub ordinates to ensuring alignment of safety priorities and proper allocation of resources. These meetings will also be useful in aiding the growth and development of high potential safety specialists and coordinators. It is expected that action items arising through this process are tracked to resolution.
- Bachelor's degree
- Experience leading multiple direct reports or multiple sites
- - Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements in WHS field operations role
- Experience owning warehouse/Site/Plant or manufacturing unit’s strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership - Bachelor's degree. –
- 5+ years of warehouse/Site/Plant or manufacturing unit’s experience or project management experience –
- 5+ years of working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams experience –
- 5+ years of defining and implementing process improvement initiatives using data and metrics experience –
- Knowledge of Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookUps) at an advanced level. –
- 5+ years of driving process/performance in WHS field role improvements experience –
- Master's Diploma/Degree