We strive to be Earth's most customer-centric company, best employer, and safest workplace. We seek exceptional talent to help achieve these goals and make a global impact.

Why Join Us?
You'll shape the future of workplace safety, contribute to a company-wide health and wellness culture, and help make Amazon the safest place to work on Earth.

We're hiring a Principal Program Manager for Workplace Health & Safety (WHS) in Melbourne. You'll manage our risk-mitigation strategy and uphold the highest safety standards across our network. Reporting to the Senior WHS Country Leader, you'll collaborate with various teams to drive safety initiatives.

In this role, you will dive deep into Operations processes; identify risks through data and first-hand experience; build and execute programs, and improve processes to eliminate risks; and influence Operations to sustain a culture of safety. This role will focus on coordinating and leading large, strategic projects / programs within Amazon Business Units (BUs) and will be strongly focused on injury and accident prevention as well as improvements across health, safety and wellness.

Apply now to make a significant impact and help realize our vision of being the best employer.

Key job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with subject matter experts to identify risks and improve WHS standards.
- Conduct WHS regulatory research and promote a safety-focused culture.
- Stay attuned to changing regulations and internal WHS performance to change standards when required.
- Measure business and site performance against published requirements in WHS standards. For all deficiencies, ensure plans are implemented to address areas of weakness.
- Understand and analyze WHS data and information (e.g. WHS laws, regulations, bench marking studies, industry best practices) to discover trends to justify the allocation of appropriate resources to areas where risk is highest.
- Manage regulatory relationships, including interactions, and identify trend areas for improvement.
- Analyze data and write technical reports on safety metrics and performance.
- Lead strategic projects to prevent injuries and enhance WHS practices.
- Support building WHS competency and awareness across different business units. Lead, develop and deploy a standard method for monitoring work performed by contractors, and consultants, in accordance with WHS standards.