Site Workplace Safety Head

PI Industries Ltd; Kolkata District; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

PI Industries Ltd seeks a Site Workplace Safety Head to lead EHS culture building and to implement global standards across chemical safety, PPE, electrical, machinery safety, LOTO, training, PTW and JSA. The role spans multiple sites (Jambusar, Panoli, Udaipur) with 10–15 years of EHS experience expected in chemical/pharma/FMCG operations.

Key duties include risk and emergency management, performance monitoring and reporting, incident investigations, and team leadership.

Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Chemical/Mechanical/Electrical engineering.
• 10–15 years EHS experience in chemical/pharma/fmcg/mechanical ops.
• Industry background: Agro-Pharma-Fine-Chemicals.

Responsibilities

• Build an EHS culture and implement global standards across chemical safety, PPE, electrical, machinery safety, LOTO, training, PTW, JSA, fire & emergency and occupational health.
• Establish risk and emergency management framework with preventive controls and emergency plans.
• Monitor performance with KPIs and report to leadership and stakeholders; drive corrective actions.
• Lead EHS incident investigation and reporting; ensure lessons are captured and shared.
• Manage EHS team, training calendars, and capability development across sites.
• Develop and track regional EHS budget and 24x7 safety monitoring systems.

Skills

Data analysis & reporting

Safety awareness

Regulatory & legal compliance

Risk assessment

Emergency response planning

Chemical safety

Education

Graduate degree in Chemical/Mechanical/Electrical engineering

Job description

Position Description

Business Division: CSM AgChem
Department: EHS
Location: Jambusar/Panoli/Udaipur
Position Title: Site Workplace Safety Head
Level: Junior to Sr. Management depending on site
Reporting To: Head Workplace Safety
Dotted Line Reporting to Site Head

Position Purpose

• EHS culture building
• To implement global EHS standards and EHS interim actions on Chemical safety, PPE, electrical, Machinery safety, LOTO, Training, PTW, JSA, Fire & Emergency, Occupational Health etc.
• Risk and Emergency Management
• Performance Monitoring and Reporting
• EHS Incident Investigation and Reporting
• Team Management
• Training / capability development system
• Industrial EHS Database and Best Practices
• To make a monitoring system to ensure that standards are in place and in use 24 hrs 365 days
• To develop and track regional EHS budget

Strategic Responsibilities

• Develop EHS culture and implement global EHS standards on Chemical safety, PPE, electrical, Machinery safety, LOTO, Training, PTW, JSA, Fire & Emergency along with Occupational Health etc.
• Provide a framework to identify all possible risks and foreseeable emergencies, develop control and preventive measures, review implementation of risk mitigation guidelines, develop, communicate and simulate emergency response plans IN ORDER TO mitigate potential business risks from SHE perspective and prevent and address emergencies effectively.
• List down the activities of respective site
• Conduct safety health fire hygiene risk assessment
• List the high, medium and low risk safety health fire hygiene activities.
• Develop the controls to mitigate the safety health fire hygiene risks
• Develop a monitoring system to ensure that safety health fire hygiene controls are in place and in use 24 hrs and 365 days

Operational Responsibilities

• Implementation of standards: Chemical safety, PPE, electrical, Machinery safety, LOTO, Training, PTW, JSA, Fire & Emergency, Occupational Health.
• Establish indicators of performance as per local regulatory, I global and other EHS requirements, Monitor performance against the established indicators; communicate performance to senior management, employees and relevant external stakeholders; Carry out corrective and preventive actions to address adverse trends, Prepare EHS data as may be prescribed by external bodies IN ORDER TO effectively track and report performance and take a timely corrective action if required
• Develop training modules/ calendar covering appropriate personnel across sites
• To help and guide the teams in implementing the standards.
• Improve the capability of plant EHS in implementing standards in the respective site
• Deliver awareness trainings to plant heads, SLT, zone owners and shift in charges on standards and their implementation.
• In order to continually increase competence across PI
• Collect best SHE practices in and outside PI plants, share and track for implementation of EHS good practices, create a system for encouraging to share the EHS good practices.
• Provide standards and process for investigation and reporting, review serious incident cases; conduct quality controls on incident investigation reports and advise teams when required on classification, investigation and documentation; track incidents on a regular basis to identify areas of improvement and create infrastructure for reporting IN ORDER TO ensure incidents are effectively investigated and processes are put in place to prevent the same in the future.
• To develop a system of monitoring the safety, hygiene, health standards are in place and in use 24 hrs. 365 days
• Take initiatives in the matter of EHS with an objective to upgrade the standards of Occupational Safety protection including generating various checklists/ building up standards

Financial Responsibilities

• To develop EHS OPEX and CAPEX budget of respective site and track them for completion.

People Responsibilities

• Conduct goal setting, performance appraisals and mentoring/coaching for own team members; collaborate with HR in manpower planning, recruitment activities and identifying training needs of team members; provide training to team members on new processes when required IN ORDER TO maximize retention and performance of team members
• To work with site leadership team and improve the site EHS culture by focusing on
• Visible felt leadership
• Engaging the employees in EHS
• Improving line accountability in EHS
• Capability and competency building.

Education Qualification

A Graduate Degree in Chemical/Mechanical/Electrical engineering.

Work Experience

At least 10-15 years of EHS experience in Chemical/Pharma//FMCG/ automobiles and other mechanical operations

Industry to be Hired from

Agro-Pharma-Fine-Chemicals

Functional Competencies

• Data Analysis and Reporting
• Safety Awareness
• Regulatory and Legal Compliance
• Risk Assessment
• Emergency Response Planning
• Chemical Safety Expertise

Interaction Complexity and Team Work

Contact Person (Level/position that the position-holder will interact with)
Frequency
Nature of Interaction
Cluster EHS teams, all function heads and Business Head
Daily/Weekly/ Fortnightly
On Aspects of workplace safety

External

• Director of Factories
• Other Regulatory Authorities
• As and when required
• On Regulatory aspects and also Liasoning