Health & Safety Manager

• Completed degree in Health & Safety or qualified to NVQ5/NEBOSH Diploma level or equivalent.


• Professional experience in Health & Safety, ideally gained in a logistics
  environment.


• You're a chartered member of an industry body representing the interest of
  Human Resources, such as IOSH (CMIOSH) or equivalent.


• Experience in leading a group of Health & Safety team members.


• Experience communicating with and presenting to senior leadership.


• You possess an in-depth understanding of EU & local Health and Safety
  legislation.

Job summary

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 Health and
Safety Manager 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.
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Effectively collaborating on Health and Safety projects, across various
Operations sites.
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Providing authoritative guidance on Health & Safety matters to all
stakeholders, especially on those relating to your designated area of
responsibility.
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Review and audit arrangements for Health & Safety management, while
continuously improving these arrangements where appropriate.
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Plan and implement work systems around reducing Health and Safety risks, e.g.
recommending suitable adaptations to machinery and processes.
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Ensure robust reporting regimes are in place for Health and Safety statistics.
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Provide management with information and statistics related to your area of
responsibility.
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Support business change, via effective change management processes in the
context of your Fulfilment Centre's flexible environment
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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

• You possess experience of Lean, 5S and Kaizen methodologies.


• Qualifications or experience of environmentally-conscious initiatives would be
  advantageous.


• Communication and influencing skills: you're also results-oriented and
  tenacious.


• Flexible approach to work, while always managing your own priorities and
  workload.


• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and to motivate teams.


• You can quickly build credibility, using your influencing skills and
  strategies to build buy-in for change.


• Proven record of propelling significant change through an operation.