At Amazon, we prioritize health, safety, and well-being above all else. There is nothing more important. To support this priority, Amazon is seeking an experienced and innovative Senior TOM Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) Manager to join our team. In this position, you will be responsible for partnering with the network operations team to execute company WHS policies and ensure compliance to all applicable local, regional and federal regulations. By leveraging lean principles and kaizens, you will lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce conditional and ergonomic risk to ensure a safe and healthful working environment for Amazon’s Associates.

In this role, you must demonstrate the ability to build trust and confidence with the cross functional TOM operation teams, and influence change through providing comprehensive risk assessments and safety data analysis. To do so, you must be an effective communicator and send clear, concise and consistent messages, both verbally and in writing. You will also be required to instruct and train TOM operations leadership while assisting the TOM operational teams in incorporating our safety standards at their sites. Your experience working in safety programs and your relevant safety, environmental and ergonomic knowledge in an operations environment will be crucial.

You will be responsible for developing a team of TOM Safety Leads and TOM operations within your designated network. Your team’s success will depend on your ability to create and execute leadership development plans for your larger team. You must demonstrate your ability to clearly communicate organizational direction through your team and give frequent and appropriate feedback to TOM operation teams while ensuring they are executing to the core competencies of an Amazon WHS professional. As a senior leader in the TOM WHS organization, you will also be responsible for judging and assessing safety talent to select appropriate bench strength for current and future business needs.


Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Act as SME of regional/national regulations and company WHS policy.
• Provide guidance and oversight to ensure compliance to all applicable Amazon WHS Policies.
• Measure the regions and network’s performance against published requirements in WHS policies. For all deficiencies, identify a plan for the site to implement and fix all identified deficiencies.
• Ensure WHS recordkeeping and data integrity and provides TOM Operations with accurate reporting and metrics to support business WHS initiatives.
• Deliver on-time and quality projects to TOM Operations. Deliver quality projects on time to TOM 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 safety risk is highest.
• Actively manage and develop your team through targeted career growth actions .
• Audit the workplace organization and Associate behaviors to ensure that training, auditing and scoring methods are accurate and consistent.
• Spend time at the fulfillment center trailer yards and seek input from WHS teams, Associates and TOM leaders on WHS program improvement opportunities. Ensure open communication on status of progress and resolution against these suggestions.