WHS Regional Manager, Grocery Logistics

WHS Regional Manager, Amazon Grocery Logistics

Our team is seeking a WHS (Workplace, Health & Safety) Regional Manager who will support the AGLI (Amazon Grocery Logistics International) operations. This role is responsible to provide technical support, tactical execution, and deliver a strategy for future expansion in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment. You will be responsible for collaborating with AGLI operations team and the Global WHS team to execute company environmental procedures and ensure compliance with all applicable Country and World Wide regulations.

Utilizing risk assessments and compliance evaluations, this individual will lead continuous improvement initiatives to minimize risk and implement best practices. You must be an effective communicator and send clear, concise and consistent messages, both verbally and in writing. You must possess proficiency in Health and safety regulatory knowledge and demonstrate this expertise when working with teams throughout the EU Operations.

You will need to thrive and deliver a strategy for execution across multiple sites in a fast-paced environment.

Travelling required: 25%.

You are an innovative and passionate leader and you love working with people in the field to improve processes and WHS performance. You possess excellent safety program and ergonomic knowledge and be able demonstrate this expertise when working with Operations. You are detail oriented, self-starting and results-oriented.

• Ensure baseline governance processes and risk assessments are in place, created, regularly reviewed and owned by individual site leaders
• Ensure high levels of support and guidance are provided to the leadership teams to ensure the low-cost operating model is delivered for customers with lean, adaptable EHS program
• Partner with site leaders to ensure they execute safety requirements, track action data entry and completion
• Ensure Ops teams are all able to run their safety toolkit process to ensure minimum standards, engage associates and verify compliance
• Provide guidance and coaching to site based safety personnel
• Ensure site management team are able to assess incidents, root causes and recordability criteria and input information correctly into Austin
• Partner with sites and HR to ensure accurate Austin recordkeeping, and compliance with EU country legal requirements and OSHA reporting standards
• Partner with sites and HR to ensure occupational health support is provided as appropriate to the country in which they are operating
• Create and facilitate regulatory training to site leadership (via onsite training, Learn, webinars)
• Support sites to build and maintain a safety culture, including deployment and operation of safety toolkit
• Partner with EU and NA Central teams on assessing impact of new processes on safety and environment
• Works with specialist partners (such as EAP) as required to identify environmental requirements, coordinate and track execution
• Assess EU operations to ensure both Amazon and local country EHS legal compliance, and report findings to the EU EHS leadership teams

Amazon Grocery Logistics International (AGLI) operates a total 19 Grocery Fulfillment Centers (GFCs) and one Grocery Distribution Centers (GDC) across Spain, UK, Italy and Japan. GFCs sites average 43k ft2, GDC site with 170k ft2 footprint and include high-risk operations driven by walk-in freezers & chillers, Powered Industrial Trucks (PITs) – Pedestrian interaction, Very Narrow Aisles (VNA) racking system and yard environment with FLEX and Delivery Service Partners (DSPs) vendors.

As part of the WHS team, Multi Site Manager will support the safety design review, program development, launch-field execution, and business intelligence and will drive long term safety strategy with direct impact on S-team WHS goals.

• Lean, 5S and Kaizen qualifications/experience
• Experience with EHS application tools
• Previous experience in similar role

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