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 to join our team. In this position, the WHS Manager will serve as the site’s designated first aid provider in the warehouse, coordinating and implementing the Amazon Global Program. The Site WHS Manager will partner with the Operations Team at the site level to execute company WHS policies and ensure compliance with all applicable local, regional and federal regulations. The Manager 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 Site WHS Manager 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 Responsibilities
- Provide guidance and oversight to ensure compliance with all applicable Amazon WHS Policies.
- Possess a thorough understanding of local, regional, and domestic regulations and company policy.
- Lead initiatives to reduce conditional and ergonomic risk in our processes to ensure a safe and healthful working environment for our associates.
- Establish high‑quality relationships with both site and regional leadership.
- Measure the site’s performance against published requirements in EHS policies, identify deficiencies, design corrective plans, and drive accountability for implementation.
- 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 non‑compliance equipment and/or processes at the site and implement solutions to eliminate exposure to these risks and prevent injury at other FCs.
- Audit record‑keeping practices and WHS Information System entries to ensure compliance with global WHS standards and local 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, and audit the quality, delivery, and effectiveness of all required WHS training.
- Work flexible shifts which may include day, nights, and weekends.
Basic Qualifications
- 5+ years of increasing responsibilities in EHS or environmental programs in manufacturing, production, or service operations experience.
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Experience leading multiple direct reports or managing multiple sites.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience implementing lean principles and process improvement in an operational environment.
- Experience in a distribution center or manufacturing EHS with a mix of exempt and non‑exempt employees at a site of at least 250 people.
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Compensation & Benefits
The base salary range for this position is listed below. CAN, ON, Brampton - 106,000.00 - 177,000.00 CAD annually. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well‑being.
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