HR Partner, Human Resources

At Amazon, we are committed to being Earth’s Safest Place to Work, Best Employer and Most Customer-Centric Company. To get there, we need exceptionally talented and empathetic leaders passionate about making every day better for all employees - and you would play a key role in that journey! Our Human Resources leaders care deeply about the employee experience and support employees and managers to focus on people through engagement, technology and innovation. As you start your career at Amazon, the HR Partner role in our Worldwide Operations People Experience and Technology (PXT) team can provide you with: - Ability to influence change and foster an environment of inclusion for all employees. - Skills in employee engagement and problem solving with diverse populations. - Experience with working in a rapid and complex changing environment driven by continuous innovation. - Knowledge and application of HR fundamentals. - Partnering with leaders at multiple levels of the organization to develop forward looking strategies and goals focused on the employee experience. - Experience in coaching and supporting leaders in onboarding and talent management. - Exposure to a multi-faceted human resource organization to jumpstart your career.In this role, you will partner with front-line business leaders to innovate, implement and deploy HR strategies focused on employee engagement, internal customer service, talent management, organizational effectiveness and workforce planning. In addition, you will provide front-line support to our employee, PXT and leadership teams calling on HR expertise and empathy. To thrive, you will need a flexible skill set, including the ability to connect to the bigger picture while diving deep into the details and collaborate across many teams, levels, and situations.As a HR Partner, no two days look the same, but a typical day will most likely include the following responsibilities: - Work with a team of hourly and senior PXT employees in creating a best in class employee experience (Onsite hourly team will not exist in all PXT business lines). - Foster and role model an environment of inclusion for all employees. - Advocate for employees’ success through end-to-end experiences that help employees feel fully engaged in the work they do and valued for who they are. - Equitably exercise high-judgment, manage through ambiguity and serve as first point of escalation for employee concerns. - Create and drive an active approach to impact change and innovation around employee engagement. - Promote adoption of technology, self-service, change management and continuous improvement. - Support employee queries and situations with discretion and expertise along with routine standard work around employee onboarding, performance management, engagement processes and benefits services. - Provide effective internal and external customer service with focus on strong communication and business acumen. - Coach, develop and support leadership through decision making with empathy and sound judgment through leadership 1:1s, roundtables and training. - Collaborate with multiple levels of the organization ranging from front-line employees to senior leaders. - Influence and guide partners to prioritize employee experience and customer obsession when innovating. - Use data and metrics to identify trends, anticipate business needs and develop action plans, including attendance and attrition deep dive and planning.- Proactively manage professional and personal development through continuous learning and training.- Be ready to work hard while having fun!We might be a great match if you:- Courageously advocate for equity when you see inequity in behavior or processes.- Are excited to work in a fast-paced and team-oriented environment, it is always Day 1!- Are passionate about interacting with and advocating for employees, leaders and HR teams who are working directly with products (everything from picking product, driving trucks or servicing a customer) to meet customer promise.- Are excited by an active, non-typical work environment. You aren’t looking for a Monday through Friday job sitting at a computer all day... We are on the production floor engaging our teams, coaching our leaders and creating the earth’s best place to work!- Are flexible in supporting our field workforce and able to work flexible schedules. PXT teams supporting our field workforce will work various hours and be aligned to the operational shifts of their client group. This includes working weekends, evenings, and rotating schedules based on business needs.- Insist on the highest standards, have an outstanding work ethic, and desire to achieve excellence.We will support you through training and onboarding that will help teach you everything you need to know to be a successful HR Partner. Here are a few qualifications you should have from Day 1 with Amazon:BASIC QUALIFICATIONSBasic Qualifications:- Bachelor's Degree from accredited university. ...

Senior Regional EHS Manager, Senior Regional WHS Manager

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 Regional Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) Manager to join our team. In this position, you will be responsible for partnering with a regional 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 operations 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 operations leadership and site WHS professionals in company EHS policies while assisting the regional 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 safety managers and safety professionals within your designated region. Your teams’ 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 your WHS teams while ensuring they are executing to the core competencies of an Amazon WHS professional. As a senior leader in the 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 responsibilitiesResponsibilities include but are not limited to:• Act as SME of local/regional regulations and company WHS policy.• Provide guidance and oversight to ensure compliance to all applicable Amazon WHS Policies.• Measure the regions 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.• 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.• Analyze Global Safety Peer Review results and develop and implement solutions to eliminate exposure to these risks and prevent injury at other SCs.• Audit the workplace organization and Associate behaviors to ensure that training, auditing and scoring methods are accurate and consistent.• Lead soft tissue injury reduction efforts by performing targeted Kaizens in partnership with the Operations teams based on the risks identified in each task (force, repetition, and awkward postures).• Partner with corporate and other regional field WHS personnel to leverage global WHS and environmental best practices into NA network standards.BASIC QUALIFICATIONSBachelor’s degree• 7+ years of increasing responsibilities in safety and/or environmental programs in manufacturing, production, service operations, or relevant experience applicable to the role• 7+ years of increasing responsibilities in people and performance management• Experience implementing lean principles and process improvement in an operational environment.• Ability to travel up to 50%• Office within one of the designated region's sites. Must be willing to relocate if not currently within region• Willingness to work a variety of shifts, including nights and weekends, as required to support direct reports and site needs. ...