Executive Safety - Nemam Plant

Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages (HCCB); Chennai; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages (HCCB) seeks a Safety Professional to lead safety culture-building efforts at the site in Chennai. You will design training, implement risk assessments, and drive statutory compliance while promoting safe behaviors across all shifts.

Key responsibilities include safety audits, incident investigations, emergency planning, and cross-functional coordination with plant leadership to ensure a safe working environment in a fast‑moving FMCG setting.

Qualifications

• Minimum B. Tech /BE -Mechanical/ Industrial / Production/Chemical Engineering + Diploma in Industrial Safety
• Minimum 5 years in factory, minimum 2 years as Safety Professional; FMCG/Food/Beverage preferred.

Responsibilities

• Analyze behaviors of people in plant toward safety and support site leadership to devise strategies to change behaviors.
• Devise site reward & recognition schemes to promote Safe Behaviors.
• Decide safety training strategy and prepare safety training calendar for Workmen, Execs, Managers & contractual employees.
• Conduct training on Safety Standards, Work Permit Systems, Risk Assessment, Emergency Plan.
• Prepare a site Safety Committee and conduct routine meetings as per Factorys Act.
• Develop calendar for Safety Audits and create audit checklists; track compliances and close gaps.
• Lead Risk Assessment tools like FMEA, CTI/THA, Location/Equipment Risk Assessment, What-If, HAZOP; prepare Emergency plan and conduct drills.
• Report hazards, ensure accident reporting and investigation processes are followed.

Skills

Safety management

Risk assessment

Audits & compliance

Training delivery

Emergency planning

Education

B.E./B.Tech in Mechanical/Industrial/Production/Chemical Engineering

Diploma in Industrial Safety

Tools

FMEA

HAZOP

Job description

Role & responsibilities

Safety Culture Building

• Analyze behaviors of the people in plant toward safety and support site leadership to devise strategies to change behaviors
• Devise site reward & recognition schemes to promote Safe Behaviors

Training

• Decide safety training strategy for the site and prepare safety training calendar for Workmen, Execs, Managers & contractual employees
• Conduct training of necessary stakeholders in areas of Safety Standards, Work Permit Systems, Risk Assessment, Emergency Plan
• Devise a system & allocate responsibility to conduct safety briefing to all contractual employees

Statutory Compliances

• Responsible for Safety related Statutory compliances for the site
• Prepare a list of all Statutory Requirements related to Safety , allocate responsibility & develop a mechanism for tracking
• Prepare a site Safety Committee as per Factorys Act and conduct routine meetings

Internal Audits

• Develop a calendar for conducting Safety Audits in plant, allocate responsibility & track compliances
• Develop Safety audit checklists in co-ordination with functional stakeholders
• Highlight key audit findings to site leadership and get the audit gasps closed with functional stakeholders
• Maintain necessary documents

Safety Risk Assessment /Emergency Plan

• Train the functional stakeholders on various Risk Assessment tools such as FMEA, CTI/THA, Location /Equipment Risk Assessment, What-If Analysis, HAZOP
• Hand hold the functional stakeholders to conduct Risk Assessment and ensure highest quality of the same
• Prepare site Emergency plan
• Lead Emergency Mock-Drills as per requirement
• Annual review of Risk Assessment & Emergency Plan
• Maintain necessary records

Hazard Identification & Mitigation / Accident Investigation

• Devise a system of spotting and reporting Hazards and mitigation of same
• Ensure compliance to Accident reporting and Investigation protocol

Participate in Accident investigation process

Preferred candidate profile

Qualifications: Minimum B. Tech /BE -Mechanical/ Industrial / Production/Chemical Engineering + Diploma in Industrial Safety

Experience: Minimum 5 years in factory. Minimum 2 years as Safety Professional. Preference to FMCG/Food /Beverage Industry