Job Description

DESCRIPTION

At Amazon, we\'re working to be the most customer-centric company on earth. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you\'d like to help us build the place to find and buy anything online, this is your chance to make history.

One focus area of the Amazon Construction Health & Safety mission is to provide tools, resources, and environment that support safe, efficient, and healthy behaviors and encourage proactive management of health, safety and well-being. This individual will play a critical role to ensure high standards of safety are adhered to across all construction projects in the EU and help establish expectations to manage H&S compliance within existing contractual agreements.

We are seeking to strengthen our team of Design & Construction Safety professionals to support the execution of our growing EU Construction Safety Management program. The role will influence site safety initiatives and safety metric tracking across our vast array of construction facilities with the aim of expanding the Amazon network safely.

The successful candidate will support the delivery of central Health & Safety pro-active objectives and be responsible for developing, updating and maintaining the Construction safety Information System. The role requires prior H&S Construction experience and will require also knowledge of EU Construction safety standards, to meet European country requirements. Emphasis will be on sound safety principles, basic construction knowledge and the ability to engage with cross functional teams, transforming this knowledge into sound, compliant processes for the EU network. The individual will provide a functional working link to critical customer including: Design & Construction, Operations Engineering, Start-up, Launch, Reliability Maintenance Engineering, Procurement, Real Estate and Workplace Health & Safety.

Would you like an opportunity to travel and work in multiple countries and cultures?
The role will be based in UK with up to 50% of time traveling either domestically or to other EMEA countries.

Key job responsibilities
The extent of your duties will include:

• Support construction/project managers in follow-up of serious incidents and near misses.
• Ad hoc site visits to perform observations, support construction managers or participate in other site-based activities, ensuring engagement with construction/ launch managers to provide support, as needed.
• Monitor and update changing regulations and industry trends that may influence the EU Construction Contractor Safety program.
• Support construction and project managers establish and maintain effective work relationship with developers, general contractors and subcontractors.
• Provide real-time assistance to field team to ensure the compliance with local legislation and H&S requirements as required.
• Own a strategic pillar within H&S, understand the problem and support the design & implementation of the strategy, ensuring communications across all business lines for maximum impact.
• Provide onsite team with guidance on health and safety and confirm project site fulfills industry, local, state, and federal guidelines and regulations.
• Guarantee that all work is performed in accordance with approved manuals, internal policies and procedures, contract documents, and good engineering practices.
• Support Technical Vendor Management with Safety data and quarterly safety business reviews
• Manage a portfolio / region of projects and associated ownership of driving safety targets.
• Participate in team meetings and provide regular on-site project presence on demand.
• Ensure a data-oriented assistance approach throughout the overall project lifecycle.
• Run the deep dive assessment within the business and identify the need of developing new standards, SoP\'s, guidelines etc., to support the management system.
• Support the development of solutions that meet Amazon high standards for safety, risk reduction, customer satisfaction, efficiency, scalable, simplicity, and operational excellence.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

London, GBR

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor\'s degree
- 7+ years of project management, real estate development, architecture/design experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- \xe2\x80\xa2 Experience implementing lean principles and process improvement in an operational environment. \xe2\x80\xa2 Experience interacting with cross functional teams and managing projects with minimal supervision \xe2\x80\xa2 NEBOSH certification is preferred. \xe2\x80\xa2 Country specific legal awareness, such as Italian, Spanish, German or French. \xe2\x80\xa2 Proficiency in German, French, Polish, Italian are considered preferred qualification. Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills.

Amazon is an equal opportunities employer. We believe passionately that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We value your passion to discover, invent, simplify and build. Protecting your privacy and the security of your data is a longstanding top priority for Amazon. Please consult our Privacy Notice (https://www.amazon.jobs/en/privacy_page) to know more about how we collect, use and transfer the personal data of our candidates.

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