WHS Specialist - Health & Wellbeing

Amazon Inc.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Australia is hiring a Workplace Health, Safety and Wellness (WHSW) Specialist to lead injury prevention and wellbeing programs across our fulfilment and delivery network. You will own the program design, service delivery models, and vendor management to drive safety outcomes while partnering with Procurement, Legal and Operations.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, governance, incident investigations, and continuous improvement to scale successful pilots into network-wide standards

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Health and/or Safety, psychology, behavioural health, public health or a related field.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience, ideally in an occupational setting.
• Knowledge of Workplace/Occupational Health and Safety legislation.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy and act as the technical subject matter expert for musculoskeletal injury prevention and health and wellbeing program design across Amazon Australia.
• Oversee onsite and telehealth physiotherapy program end to end across fulfilment centres, sort centres and delivery stations, including service delivery model, rostering, vendor performance and KPIs, and contract variations.
• Build and run governance with SOPs, KPI tracking, dashboards, and reporting to leadership and Board updates.
• Support WHS Manager to deliver health, safety and wellbeing performance against goals and projects.
• Develop and implement occupational health, injury prevention, early intervention and return-to-work programs; scale pilots to network-wide standards.
• Partner with site WHS and operations teams to implement injury prevention and wellbeing programs, including assessments and ergonomic risks.
• Participate in incident investigations, identify root causes, and recommend controls.
• Ensure compliance with Commonwealth and state WHS legislation and Amazon standards.
• Maintain WHS systems with incident reports and supporting documentation; compile metrics for reporting.
• Develop business case for program investment through planning and budgeting cycles.

Education

Health/Safety degree

Job description

At Amazon we believe that every day is still day one; a day to take a first step; a day to look forwards to new challenges; and today is that day for you. It’s your day to be part of something great; a day to make your ideas come to life; and your day to join a company that redefines itself every day. That’s the energy and passion behind Amazon.

We are currently looking to hire 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. Be able to identify, coordinate and drive improvements in WHS whilst engaging Operational and other Support Function stakeholders. The candidate will be keen to grow their career with Amazon as we continue to expand in Australia, and globally.

Key job responsibilities

• Own the strategy and act as the technical subject matter expert for musculoskeletal injury prevention and health and wellbeing program design across Amazon Australia.
• Own the onsite and telehealth physiotherapy program end to end across fulfilment centres, sort centres and delivery stations, including the service delivery model, site coverage and rostering, vendor performance against service levels and clinical and utilisation KPIs, purchase order and invoice reconciliation, and contract variations and renewals in partnership with Procurement and Legal.
• 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 utilisation data.
• Participate in WHS audits and inspections as required, and train and coach site teams and vendor physiotherapists.

Basic qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Health and/or Safety, psychology, behavioural health, public health, health science or a related field
• Minimum 3 years’ experience, ideally in an occupational setting
• Knowledge of Workplace/Occupational Health and Safety legislation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience managing external physiotherapy or allied health vendors delivering workplace injury prevention programs, including contract and budget oversight, performance tracking against clinical and utilisation KPIs

Description

At Amazon we believe that every day is still day one; a day to take a first step; a day to look forwards to new challenges; and today is that day for you. It’s your day to be part of something great; a day to make your ideas come to life; and your day to join a company that redefines itself every day. That’s the energy and passion behind Amazon.

We are currently looking to hire 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. Be able to identify, coordinate and drive improvements in WHS whilst engaging Operational and other Support Function stakeholders. The candidate will be keen to grow their career with Amazon as we continue to expand in Australia, and globally.

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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