Safety Officer - TermOps

Role overview

This position focuses on carrying out site safety requirements and ensuring that all relevant policies, standards, and regulations are implemented effectively. The role is designed to spot risks early, address them promptly, and escalate matters when needed to support a safer operating environment.

Role details

Job role: Engineer Safety

Role variant: Sr. Engineer Safety

Reporting manager role: Lead Safety

Value stream: Asset Operations

Job family: HSEF

Sub-job family: Safety

Location: Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Key responsibilities

• Apply established safety procedures, SOPs, and policies, while helping line managers understand and implement safety requirements correctly.
• Support the rollout of new initiatives and projects in line with existing policies so the site can meet future operational needs.
• Take part in first- and third-party health and safety audits for the assigned plant or area, working closely with the Lead Safety role.
• Engage with industry groups, trade associations, and global forums to stay updated on current practices and emerging trends, and use that knowledge to improve systems and processes.
• Observe and assess safety behavior in the assigned area or plant and recommend actions that help improve safe conduct.
• Keep logbooks, occurrence records, and other shift-related documentation up to date to ensure compliance with safety standards.
• Investigate safety incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and define action plans to reduce the chance of repeat incidents.
• Contribute to risk-management activities such as identifying control measures and supporting incident investigations to reduce site-level risks.
• Prepare management information reports, safety updates, findings, and performance indicators for plant leadership to improve awareness of health and safety performance.
• Monitor leading and lagging safety indicators for the assigned area or plant and drive improvement actions where required.
• Develop training content and organize safety awareness sessions for safety executives and site employees to strengthen safety capability and understanding.
• Review and analyze near-miss cases and suggest corrective and preventive actions to line management.
• Coordinate and support effective plant-level safety committee meetings.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in Engineering or Science with a specialization in Mechanical, Chemical, Instrumentation, or Chemistry.
• 3 to 7 years of experience in process-industry site operations or maintenance.
• At least 2 to 3 years of experience handling HSE responsibilities.
• Strong understanding of safety compliance requirements and related regulations.
• Working knowledge of operations from a technical perspective.
• Experience with legal and regulatory compliance in an HSE environment.
• Ability to support HSE assurance activities and risk-management frameworks.
• Knowledge of fire safety management and incident investigation methods.

Performance measures

• Employee satisfaction with safety policies.
• Number of reportable injuries.
• Number of penalties arising from non-compliance.
• Completion rate of safety training.
• Emergency response time.
• Safety audit score.

Operating network

Internal stakeholders: S&OR, site teams, HR, Finance, and related functions.

External stakeholders: Auditors, government agencies, consultants, and other relevant bodies.

Career movement

This role can grow from an Engineer Safety position and may progress to Lead Safety in the future.

Additional information

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