Workplace Health and Safety Risk Manager, WHS Risk

Are you a safety professional that enjoys the technical side of organizational safety risk management? The Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) Risk Manager will be responsible for supporting the development and management of the WHS Risk Program.

The WHS Risk Manager will partner with various operational and support teams across all business units, including Operations, Safety Engineering, Reliability and Maintenance Engineering (RME), Industrial Hygiene, Ergonomics, Global Mobility, Global Road Safety, WHS Design and Construction, Operations Engineering, WW Design Engineering, and other engineering, design, and risk management stakeholders. The individual will be required to facilitate and complete risk assessments and provide training to various teams and individuals on the methodology and execution of operational safety risk assessments.

The WHS Risk Manager will participate in serious injury and near miss investigations to ensure identified risks are incorporated into applicable risk assessments and risk controls are identified and comprehensively defined and evaluated for effectiveness.

The individual will also help to ensure stakeholders from responsible support teams are engaged in the development of risk mitigation solutions and ensuring corrective actions are appropriately defined and reflected in organizational safety risk assessments. The WHS Risk Manager will also be responsible for reviewing change management (CM) requests to ensure WHS risks mitigation controls are identified and incorporated into new process changes.

Key job responsibilities
1. Completion of comprehensive safety risk assessments
2. Work with project teams inside WHS to ensure RA’s are completed and baseline RA’s are used and updated
3. Work with project teams outside WHS to ensure RA’s are used and shared and that sites receive information on hazards, risks, PMV’s, training, etc. for new equipment being deployed
4. Deep dive SI and SNM incidents and ensure failure modes and root causes have been identified, appropriate support stakeholders are engaged, and action plans are assigned and tracked to completion
5. Assist with the continued development, implementation and management of the Global WHS Risk Management Program.
6. Interface with engineering teams to ensure risks mitigation opportunities are defined, incorporated into future state equipment and processes, and required retrofits are made where appropriate.
7. Establish Leading Indicators for WHS Risks and provide consolidated and timely reporting for the organization.
8. Utilize technology to improve and simplify work, data, and programs.
9. Assist with defining business requirements from key stakeholders for the Amazon Electronic Risk Assessment Tool (Austin)
10. Travel (up to 50%)



A day in the life
Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include:
1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options
3. Paid Time Off (PTO)
4. 401(k) Plan

If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply!


About the team
The incumbent must be an effective communicator and be able to send clear, concise and consistent messages, both verbally and in writing and possess excellent program management skills. This individual needs to be an expert in the completion and facilitation of safety risk assessments and root cause analysis incident investigations. They must also have an applied understanding of global safety regulations, codes and harmonized consensus standards.

Role involves travel 30 - 50% of the time.