WHS Specialist - Health and Wellbeing

Amazon Inc.; Sydney; Presencial; AUD 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Amazon Inc. is seeking a Workplace Health, Safety and Wellness (WHSW) Specialist to support the WHS function in our Sydney area. You will drive improvements, engage stakeholders, and coordinate injury prevention and return-to-work programs across sites.

The role focuses on governance, data reporting, and compliance with state and federal WHS requirements, delivering practical safety solutions and continuous improvement.

Responsabilidades

• Build and run the program's governance, including SOPs, KPI tracking, case follow-up and dashboards, and report performance to leadership through reviews and Board updates
• Support the WHS Manager to deliver health, safety and wellbeing performance against goals, programs and projects
• Drive development and implementation of health, injury prevention, early intervention, injury management and return to work programs, scaling pilots into standards
• Partner with site WHS and operations teams to implement injury prevention and wellbeing programs, provide specialist on physical demands, task analysis and ergonomic risk assessments
• Participate in incident investigations for musculoskeletal and physical health injuries, identify root causes and recommend controls
• Support compliance with Commonwealth and state WHS legislation, codes of practice and Amazon standards
• Keep WHS systems accurate with incident reports and documentation, and compile metrics for reporting
• Build business case for program investment using injury, cost and utilization data
• Participate in WHS audits and inspections, and train site teams and vendor physiotherapists

Conocimientos

WHS governance

Injury prevention

Ergonomic risk analysis

Incident investigations

Descripción del empleo

We are currently looking for a Workplace Health, Safety and Wellness (WHSW) Specialist to join the team and play a critical role in supporting the WHS function. The successful candidate will be an experienced, innovative, hands-on and customer obsessed individual, passionate about WHS, injury prevention, effective management of, and engaged return to work processes. The successful candidate should be able to identify, coordinate and drive improvements in WHS whilst engaging Operational and other Support Function stakeholders.

Key responsibilities:

• Build and run the program's governance, including standard operating procedures, weekly KPI tracking, case follow-up and dashboards, and report performance to leadership through weekly, monthly and quarterly business reviews and Board updates
• Support the WHS Manager to deliver health, safety and wellbeing performance against team and functional goals, programs and projects
• Drive the development and implementation of occupational health, injury prevention, early intervention, injury management and return to work programs, scaling successful site pilots into network-wide standards
• Partner with site WHS and operations teams to implement injury prevention and wellbeing programs, and provide specialist support on physical demands assessments, task analysis and ergonomic risk assessments
• Participate in incident investigations for musculoskeletal and physical health injuries, identify root causes and recommend engineering and work design controls
• Support the business to maintain compliance with Commonwealth and state WHS legislation, codes of practice and Amazon global standards
• Keep WHS systems accurate and complete, with incident reports and supporting documentation, and compile metrics to support regular and ad hoc reporting
• Build the business case for program investment through the annual planning and budget cycle, using injury, cost and utilization data
• Participate in WHS audits and inspections as required, and train and coach site teams and vendor physiotherapists