Souq.com is the largest ecommerce site in the Arab world. Every month, Souq.com attracts more than 41 million visits to its catalogue of more than 8.5 million unique products in 35 different categories, including consumer electronics, household goods, fashion, watches, perfumes, toys, and baby products.

Established in 2005, Souq.com today operates both as an award-winning retail business and an online marketplace that allows SMEs, merchants, brands and distributors to distribute their products online.

With more than 4,000 employees, We have offices and local operations in UAE, Egypt, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and leading Product and Engineering centers in Jordan and India, offering a unique opportunity to join the leading player in an ever growing and exciting industry.

It’s in this logistics environment that we will need an experienced Health and Safety Manager to play a critical role. You will be supervising overall Health and Safety standards in this Sort Center, while also working towards the continuous improvement of functionality and efficiency.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Handling Health and Safety and employee satisfaction at your Sort Center, including supervising employee wellbeing and productivity.

• Effectively collaborating on Health and Safety projects, across various Operations sites.

• Providing authoritative guidance on Health & Safety matters to all stakeholders, especially on those relating to your designated area of responsibility.

• Review and audit arrangements for Health & Safety management, while continuously improving these arrangements where appropriate.

• Plan and implement work systems around reducing Health and Safety risks, e.g. recommending suitable adaptations to machinery and processes.

• Ensure robust reporting regimes are in place for Health and Safety statistics.

• Develop written Health & Safety documentation (procedures, tools and training (in both English and local language.

• Provide management with information and statistics related to your area of responsibility.

• Support business change, via effective change management processes in the context of your Sort Centre’s flexible environment

• Direct behavioral culture change programs, across a large, complex, multi-shift operation.

• Implement and review Amazon’s global safety policies, ensuring that local legislative requirements are also met.

• Ensure contractor management safety processes are implemented

Skills

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- 1+ years of workplace health & safety (WHS) related field experience

- Knowledge of OSHA regulations, specifically 29 CFR 1910

- High school or equivalent

- Experience using Microsoft Word in a professional capacity

- Experience maintaining confidentiality in matters involving security or personnel issues in the workplace

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience in emergency response

- Experience in worker's compensation case management