Role in brief
BP is hiring a Senior Lab HSSE & OPEX Manager to lead safety operations and compliance in their India labs. This role focuses on implementing global safety initiatives, managing risk, and ensuring environmental standards. It suits an experienced HSSE professional with a background in industrial or lab settings, who can drive safety protocols and manage incident response.
About the role
This role involves leading and assuring safe operations within BP's laboratory environment in India. The manager acts as the primary point of contact for all HSSE matters, overseeing the communication, planning, coordination, execution, and monitoring of safety-critical processes. This includes implementing global HSSE initiatives and ensuring compliance with established frameworks like the OMS.
A key part of the position is managing various safety aspects, from chemical risk and critical equipment oversight to maintaining the site risk register. The manager will lead environmental and sustainability efforts aimed at reducing the site's carbon footprint. Additionally, this role provides HSSE leadership for major capital expenditure and construction projects, acting as a safety lead and approving permits.
Success in this position means effectively managing contractor engagement, leading incident response and investigations, and ensuring business continuity and crisis preparedness. The manager is also responsible for delivering safety-related training, developing HSSE procedures, and reporting on key performance indicators to both central HSSE teams and local stakeholders.
The annual salary for this role is between $16,250 and $26,250.
Skills that matter here
- HSSE management: This role requires proven experience in managing health, safety, security, and environmental protocols within a laboratory or industrial setting.
- risk management: The manager will oversee chemical risk, maintain the site risk register, and ensure barrier health using tools like NOVA.
- safety regulations: The position demands strong knowledge of relevant safety regulations to ensure compliance and effective control measures.
- communication: Effective communication is essential for conveying safety-critical processes, leading training, and reporting to stakeholders.
- leadership: This role provides leadership for safe operations, guides HSSE initiatives, and leads incident response teams.
Who this role suits
- A professional with a bachelor's degree in HSSE or a related field.
- Someone with a background in HSSE management within a lab or industrial environment.
- An individual who can lead and govern safety frameworks, ensuring compliance and effective risk mitigation.
- A person capable of managing incident response, crisis preparedness, and delivering safety training.
From the employer
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver strategy through implementation and execution of global HSSE initiatives.
- Provide leadership and governance of OMS framework, encompassing CoW, risk assessments, MoC, self‑verification, audits, and compliance management.
- Act as site owner for chemical risk management, safety‑critical equipment oversight, and maintenance of the site risk register, assuring barrier health through structured annual reviews using risk tools (e.g., NOVA).
- Provide HSSE leadership for major CAPEX and construction projects, acting as Safety Lead and SPA, including approval of permits and CoW authorities for both project and BAU activities.
- Lead environmental and sustainability initiatives to support reduction of the site’s carbon footprint.
- Lead contractor engagement and management, manage safety walks and track actions.
- Support facilities management with coordination of activities across site.
- Own HSSE KPI reporting and self‑verification outputs for central HSSE teams and local stakeholders.
- Act as on‑site incident response and investigation lead, including planning and delivery of emergency response exercises.
- Lead business continuity and crisis preparedness, including BCP ownership, crisis and continuity training (including leadership teams), and coordination with site security.
- Ensure delivery of safety‑related training and competence development aligned to site training matrices.
- Develop, maintain, and govern HSSE procedures, work instructions, and risk assessments, ensuring effective controls, compliance, and traceability.
Required qualifications and experience
- Bachelor’s degree related to HSSE or a similar field.
- Proven experience in HSSE management within a laboratory or industrial environment.
- Strong knowledge of risk management and safety regulations.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills.
Questions about this role
What is the seniority level for this position?
This is a senior-level position.
Is this role remote?
Yes, this role is remote.
What are the key responsibilities of this role?
Key responsibilities include implementing global HSSE initiatives, managing risk assessments, leading environmental efforts, overseeing incident response, and ensuring compliance with safety procedures.
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