Senior Regional EHS Manager

About the role

At Amazon, we prioritize health, safety, and well-being above all else. This position is part of a team dedicated to ensuring compliance with local, regional, and federal regulations to create a safe and healthy working environment for Amazon’s Associates.

Responsibilities

• Partner with a regional operations team to execute company WHS policies and ensure compliance to all applicable local, regional, and federal regulations.
• Leverage lean principles and kaizens to lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce conditional and ergonomic risks.
• Build trust and confidence with the cross-functional operations teams, influencing change through comprehensive risk assessments and safety data analysis.
• Communicate clearly and provide comprehensive guidance on company EHS policies to operations leadership and site WHS professionals.
• Instruct and train operations leadership and site WHS professionals on company safety standards, and assist regional teams in incorporating these standards at their sites.
• Develop and execute leadership development plans for a team of safety managers and professionals within your designated region.
• Communicate organizational direction to your WHS teams and provide frequent and appropriate feedback to ensure they are executing to the core competencies of an Amazon WHS professional.
• Judge and assess safety talent to select appropriate bench strength for current and future business needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• 7+ years of increasing responsibilities in safety and/or environmental programs in manufacturing, production, service operations, or relevant experience
• 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
• Willingness to work a variety of shifts, including nights and weekends

Qualifications

• Master’s degree preferred
• Certified Safety Professional preferred
• Experience in a fast-paced, dynamic organization
• Track record of effectively managing a safety operation comprising both salaried and hourly staff
• Experience developing others into higher levels of responsibility in an organization
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including comfort interfacing with Directors and VPs
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Skills

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills
• Leadership and mentoring abilities
• Lean principles and process improvement
• People and performance management
• Comprehensive risk assessment and safety data analysis
• Training and instruction
• Team management and development
• Incident analysis and trend identification
• Global safety peer review and solution implementation
• Site audit and quality assurance
• Collaboration with corporate and regional field WHS personnel

Benefits

Amazon offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life insurance, AD&D insurance, EAP, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.