Safety Technician
DESCRIPTION
This is a permanent full-time role requiring flexibility to work Shifts.
Year-on-year, as we continue to grow, we need to be innovative and able to agree solutions that keep all our team members safe, fulfilled, motivated and empowered when delivering our customer promise. To help us achieve this, we’re seeking a driven WHS Technician. Using your communication, coaching and mentoring skills, you will be providing health and safety advice, guidance and support all levels of our operational team to manage and drive health and safety in one of our Fulfilment Centres (FCs).
Our Fulfilment Centres are at the heart of Amazon’s rapidly growing business: they’re where we manage our fast-moving inventory. Our associate teams stow deliveries, pick products, package them up and ship them out: each of these groups have played their part in taking us where we are today.
In this crucial health and safety position, you’ll report into the WHS Manager, as part of a shift-based role.
Key job responsibilities
- Provide high visibility presence within the Fulfilment Centre to drive engagement and build relationships with associates and managers at all levels of the business
- Attendance at site meetings, such as daily deep dive, flow meetings etc. as needed
- Completion of key duties such as observations, inspections and audits to drive injury prevention and training compliance, and participation in management audits to build trust and fulfil support role
- Assist in the First Aid and incident investigation processes, providing technical advice and support to the leadership team, to ensure that duty of care is met and causal factors are identified; help identify and drive corrective actions to facilitate injury prevention
- Understand and track compliance of key regulatory, legislative and internal standards and/or requirements and highlight reports to WHS Manager as needed
- Complete daily standard work as determined by WHS Manager and communicate completion of standard work to WHS team
- Advise and collaborate with the operations team to undertake and review of scheduled and dynamic risk assessments as required, to ensure we can meet our customer promise safely, while proactively monitoring the deployment of control measures
- Accurately completing daily metrics and callouts whilst meeting deadlines.
- Learn, understand and implement Amazon WHS procedures, providing technical WHS advice and support to leadership
- Conduct yourself professionally at all times: you maintain confidentiality in matters involving safety investigations
- Assist with coaching, training, and briefing to operational teams (all levels) to ensure compliance with the safety management system and promoting safe behaviours
- Undertake and support deployment of any site and/or regional projects
A day in the life
Explore the world of Amazon Operations : https://www.amazontours.com/
About the team
Operations sits at the heart of the Amazon customer experience. We look after everything from the moment a customer clicks buy, to the moment their item is delivered – from desktop to doorstep. Across Europe we have more than 50 fulfilment centres, hundreds of delivery stations, thousands of machines, and tens of thousands of employees, all working together in harmony to make sure the right item gets delivered to the right person, in the right place, at the right time. In our buildings, millions of items are picked and packed by our employees every year. And on the road, our teams and partners work hard to make sure we get our customers what they want, when they want, wherever they are. We put the safety of our people above everything else, working in a modern, engaging environment as part of a team that welcomes individuality and diversity. The culture in our Operation is built on the way our teams bond and a work ethic that helps our business run like clockwork. We take real pride in a job well done, looking out for each other as we play our part in delivering the quality service Amazon is known for around the world.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- Health and Safety NVQ Level 3 or NEBOSH General Certificate (or equivalent)
- Experience working with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- B2 level of English in written and verbal English
- Experience running metrics report, analysing data to identify problems and a root cause
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in logistics / operations/ warehouse/ customer-oriented environment, a plus.
- Demonstrable ability to learn quickly, while closely adhering to new processes and procedures;
- Demonstrate willingness to change, adapt and innovate within the business
- You possess a meticulous level of sustained attention-to-detail
- You’re able to work independently, at times under minimum levels of supervision, demonstrating your ability to organise and prioritise your time effectively to meet targets and deadlines
- You can work at all levels, coaching and mentoring others to work safely
- Great team player: you contribute to a positive and healthy team environment
- You bring plenty of drive, enthusiasm and self-motivation with you each day
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