2025 Safety Specialist Intern, Operations

DESCRIPTION

With every order made and parcel delivered, customer demand at Amazon is growing. To meet this demand, and keep our world-class service running smoothly, we're growing our WHS team across Australia and offering a 3-month internship to a Safety Intern.

As a Safety Specialist Intern, you will be a passionate advocate for creating and delivering safe yet efficient working environments. You will have excellent analytical, organizational and interpersonal skills, be an effective communicator, have a high sense of (internal) customer service and be able to work with cross-functional teams including Senior Management.

The Internship Program:
You can expect to:

- Define your goals, exceed them, and set new ones.
- Think ahead and put long-term value over short-term wins. We believe in investing in your future.
- To be the best version of yourself - to continuously evolve and improve
- Become excellent at making fast decisions, taking calculated risks and fearlessly chasing excellence.
- Make the impossible, possible.

As an intern you can also expect;
- Competitive pay
- Impactful project and internship/role deliverables
- Networking opportunities with fellow interns
- Internships events such as speaker series, intern panels, Leadership Principles sessions, Amazon writing skills sessions.
- Mentorship and career development

If you’re successful during your internship, you could be considered for a graduate role after finishing your university studies

Key job responsibilities
- Familiarize and help with the organization and WHS processes for the operations site
- Assist the site WHS Manager and the site WHS teams in delivering safety processes and operations
- Support safety process systems through participation in planned audits, inspections and injury prevention processes
- Support day to day operational WHS requirements on site including participation in Daily deep dive meetings, weekly operational WHS meetings, site inspections and audits, incident investigations, risk assessments, procedural implementation, compliance assessments
- Analyze accident data and develop standards to ensure prevention of accidents
- Help to develop safety procedures and implement training programs to meet the needs of Managers and Associates in regards to critical safety issues
- Reporting out on WHS requirements and trends, this can include deliver of WHS related induction or trainings

A day in the life
Your project will require you to work as part of the WHS team alongside the site operations team on a risk reduction project/Ergonomic and MSD Injury reduction project/ WHS Data and benchmarking project/ WHS Health and Wellness project (choice of projects in consultation with your Hiring Manager)

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

We want to hire the world’s brightest minds, and offer them an environment in which they can relentlessly improve the experience for our customers.
- Currently in the penultimate year of your university degree/Masters in Occupational/ Workplace Health & Safety, Engineering or similar discipline
- Excellent analytical skills, preferably with proficiency in Excel (e.g. macros, pivot tables, complex formulas)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Problem-solving mind set with proactive issue resolution
- You are able to demonstrate curiosity and pro-activity, which will allow you to gain greater autonomy in the course of the internship and make the most of your time with us to fully achieve your learning and development goals

Please note: Our internship dates are from 1st December 2025- 20th February 2026, you will need to be available full-time for those dates to be eligible.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Ability to work successfully in a fast-moving environment, and to meet tight deadlines and prioritise workload even when faced with conflicting priorities
- Previous work experience - a summer job, internship; if it’s an experience in a related field or business, even better

Acknowledgement of country:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges 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.

IDE statement:
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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