Senior WHS Specialist

Sr. WHS Specialist

This position offers an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team and contribute to the development of psychosocial risk and work design strategy across Amazon AU.

The successful candidate will have a strong focus on implementing global health and wellness programs, as well as coordinating return to work requirements. They will be responsible for providing technical subject matter expertise in occupational health and wellness.

This is a mid-senior level role within the manufacturing and other industries sector, offering a full-time employment type with a seniority level of mid-senior.

• You hold a Bachelor's degree or higher in psychology, behavioural health, public health, health science or a related field.
• You have a minimum 3 years' experience ideally in an occupational setting, with knowledge of Workplace/Occupational Health and Safety legislation.
• You possess strong communication, teamwork, analysis, judgment, and customer focus skills, with ability to analyze accident data, new processes, and equipment for potential concerns and conduct job hazard and job analyses.

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

This role involves working in a fast-paced environment with a focus on delivering results for our customers. The ideal candidate will be able to adapt to changing priorities and deadlines while maintaining high levels of quality and attention to detail.

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, please let us know.

We offer a range of benefits including competitive salary, excellent career opportunities, and a supportive team environment. As a mid-senior level role, you will have the opportunity to take on new challenges and responsibilities while growing your career with our organization.

• Develop strategy and provide technical subject matter expertise in the development of psychosocial risk and work design strategy across Amazon AU.
• Assist the WHS Manager to ensure delivery of Health, Safety and Wellness performance in line with personal, team and functional goals and objectives, programs and projects.
• Be a key driver in the development and implementation of programs specific to occupational health, wellness, injury prevention, injury management, and return to work.
• Supporting the implementation of WHS and Wellness programs within site operations.
• Supporting the site with key risk assessment activities including proactively analyzing tasks for potential psychosocial issues, and execute other Amazon injury prevention activities.
• Participate in incident investigation process, especially those related to psychosocial-related or mental health injuries.
• Supporting the business to ensure compliance to state and Australian WHS legislation.
• Ensuring that WHS systems are kept accurate at all time with completed incident reports and all required supporting documentation, with metrics compiled on key data points to help the WHS Manager prepare/issue regular and ad hoc reports and metric documents.
• Assisting the WHS Manager with the construction of incident prevention programs, contributing to operational requests to improve on site Safety and positively impact accident trends as well as facilitating incident investigation processes.
• Participating in WHS Safety Audits and Inspection programs as required.
• Coordinating, training and coaching team members as required.