Sr WHS Country Leader, BR , Workplace Health and Safety
Job Description
The Sr WHS Country Leader, BR will be primarily responsible for managing all health, and safety related matters to our FCs and logistics operations team in Brazil. He/She will implement company safety policies and ensure compliance to all applicable local and regional regulations. By leveraging lean principles and kaizens, this individual will lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce WHS risks in our processes to ensure a safe and healthful working environment for our Associates and Contractors. He/She 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 Sr WHS Country Leader must be an effective communicator and send clear, concise and consistent messages, both verbally and in writing. This individual must instruct and train Operations Leaders in company safety policies and assist the regional teams in incorporating our safety standards at their sites. He/She will be required to identify best practices and incorporate these best practices into our standards to continuously improve company safety policies. This Senior WHS Manager will be required to possess excellent safety program and relevant safety, environmental and ergonomic knowledge and demonstrates this expertise when working with Operations.
The Sr WHS Country Leader, BR will also support the WHS activities and programs in relating to the new expansions and new launches in the region to ensure new launches/projects are executed safely without any delays due to safety reasons. This individual will work closely with BD, launch and engineering etc. team and provide WHS assessments at different phases.
The Sr WHS Country Leader, BR will be responsible to lead a team of WHS professionals. This individual must create and execute leadership development plans for his/her team members. He/She must communicate the team expectations and give frequent and appropriate feedback to his/her team members and ensure they are executing to the core competencies of an Amazon WHS professional. This individual must also demonstrate the ability to judge and assess WHS talent and select appropriate bench strength to current and future business needs.
Key job responsibilities
- Possess a thorough understanding of local/regional regulations and the ability to work with these and company policies.
- Provide guidance and oversight to ensure compliance to all applicable Amazon WHS Policies.
- Measure the region and sites’ performance against published requirements in WHS policies. For all deficiencies, identify a plan for the site to implement and fix all identified deficiencies.
- Ensure QHS record-keeping and data integrity and provides Operations with accurate reporting and metrics to support business WHS initiatives.
- Deliver on-time and quality projects to Operations. Deliver quality projects on time to Operations.
- Analyze WHS metrics and review incident weekly and monthly incident trends to discover trends to justify the allocation of appropriate resources to areas where the WHS risk is highest.
- Analyze WHS review and audit results and develop and implement solutions to eliminate exposure to these risks and prevent injury at other facilities.
- Audit record keeping practices and Gensuite entries to ensure compliance to 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.
- Manage and mentor the WHS team in the assigned facilities.
- Spend time at the FCs and DS (including Exchange Stations) and seek input from WHS teams, Associates and leaders on WHS program improvement opportunities. Ensure open communication on status of progress and resolution against these suggestions.
- Lead injury reduction efforts by performing targeted Kaizens in partnership with the Operations teams based on the risks identified in each task/at each job position.
- 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.
- Review for effectiveness the deployed WHS tools and revise to ensure continual improvement.
- Partner with corporate and other regional field WHS personnel to leverage global WHS best practices into Brazil's network standards.
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Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Environmental, Health, Ergonomics or a related field required.
- Tenured experience in increasing responsibilities in safety and/or environmental programs in manufacturing, logistics, production, or service operations.
- Experience implementing lean principles and process improvement in an operational environment.
- Fluent in English and Portuguese.
- Experience leading change in multiple site environment.
- Experience managing multiple direct reports.
- Ability to travel up to 50%.
Preferred Qualifications
- Distribution Center or Manufacturing WHS experience.
- Injury management and return to work.
- Master’s degree preferred.
- WHS specialist preferred but not essential experience with WHS regulators and ability to manage multiple sites/regions/remotely, ability to develop and implement WHS goals, strategies, improvement plans, strong analytical skills with demonstrated problem solving ability.