Amazon

WHS Manager-I

Posted On

March 20, 2025

Location

Bhubaneswar, Odisha

Experience Level

Freshers/Experienced

Job Type

Medical, Health, & Safety

Apply By

July 1, 2025

Job Description

The Site WHS Manager will be responsible for partnering with a site operations team in a Receive Center to execute company WHS policies and ensure compliance to all applicable local and regional regulations. By leveraging lean principles and kaizens, this individual will lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce conditional and ergonomic risk in our processes to ensure a safe and healthful working environment for our Associates. The Site WHS Manager must demonstrate the ability to build trust and confidence with the Operations Team and influence change through providing comprehensive risk assessments and safety data analysis.

The Site WHS Manager must be an effective communicator and send clear, concise and consistent messages, both verbally and in writing. This individual must instruct and train Operations Leaders in company safety policies and assist the operations site teams in incorporating our safety standards at their site. The Site WHS Manger will be required to identify best practices and incorporate these best practices into our standards to continuously improve company safety policies. The Site WHS Manager will be required to possess excellent safety program and relevant safety, environmental and ergonomic knowledge and demonstrates this expertise when working with Operations.

The Site WHS Manager will be responsible to lead a safety team members: Safety Specialist, Safety Coordinators, Onsite first aid Associates. This individual must create and execute leadership development plans for their Safety Associates on their team. They must communicate safety team expectations and give frequent and appropriate feedback to their safety teams and ensure they are executing to the core competencies of an Amazon safety professional.
Bachelor’s degree in Engg/ Science/ safety, environmental, ergonomics or a related field required.
Degree/PGDM in EHS from reputed institute.
Experience managing multiple direct reports.
Must be flexible regarding shifts.
6+ years previous experience in Environment, Health & Safety.
Experience implementing lean principles and process improvement in an operational environment.
Experience managing multiple direct reports.