VP Health, Safety & Environmental

Oil Authority; Louisville (KY); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Generous parental leave

Excellent retirement benefits

Job summary

BP is seeking a visionary Vice President, Health, Safety & Environmental (HSSE) to set strategic direction and lead HSSE performance for its US Convenience & Mobility business. This executive will oversee safety, risk management, and environmental programs across a large, multi-site network of company-owned and franchised locations.

The role drives enterprise standards, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement while partnering with senior leaders to enable sustainable growth and safe

Qualifications

• Significant experience in health, safety, environmental or risk management leadership.
• Strong understanding of HSSE regulatory requirements (DOT, OSHA and EPA).
• Experience leading HSSE teams in a distributed, multi-site network.
• Bachelor's degree preferred; equivalent experience considered.

Responsibilities

• Own the USCM Health, Safety & Environmental strategy and operating plan across sites and networks.
• Serve as the senior advisor to USCM leadership on safety, environmental and operational risk.
• Lead the USCM HSSE team with defined priorities and accountability for outcomes.
• Maintain alignment with bp central HSSE standards and governance.
• Ensure compliance with federal, state and local health, safety and environmental regulations.
• Embed safety into site design, operations and field execution with cross-functional partners.
• Lead incident investigations and translate lessons into store-level improvements.
• Report safety performance and emerging risks to the USCM CEO and leadership.

Skills

HSSE leadership

Regulatory compliance

Incident investigation

Risk management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in occupational safety, environmental science, or related field

Job description

Job Family Group:

HSSE Group

Job Description:

About us

Our purpose is to bring together people, energy and markets to power and navigate a changing world. In a time of constant change and possibility we need new talent to pursue commercial opportunities, fueled by world-class insight and expertise. We’re always striving for more innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes and closer collaboration across our company and beyond, and you could be part of that too. Together we continue to grow as the world’s leading energy company!

Role Purpose

As the Vice President, Health, Safety & Environmental (HS&E) you are responsible for setting the strategic direction and providing executive leadership for HSSE performance across bp's U.S. Convenience & Mobility business. This role serves as the senior HS&E leader for a large, geographically dispersed operation encompassing company-owned retail sites, franchise locations, bakery operations, field teams, offices, and support functions across the United States.

The Vice President is accountable for developing and delivering an integrated HS&E strategy that protects people, communities, assets, brand reputation, and business performance while enabling sustainable growth. The role ensures compliance with all regulatory requirements and bp standards while fostering a culture where safety, risk management, operational rigor, and environmental stewardship are embedded into every aspect of the business.

Partnering closely with executive leadership, operations teams, franchise partners, and bp's central HS&E organization, the Vice President will establish enterprise-wide standards, strengthen risk management capabilities, drive continuous improvement, and ensure consistent execution of HS&E programs across a network supporting thousands of employees, contractors, customers, and business partners.

This leader will provide oversight for operational risk management, process safety, occupational safety, environmental compliance, emergency preparedness and response, incident prevention, regulatory engagement, and business resilience. The role plays a critical part in enabling safe and reliable operations while supporting commercial performance, transformation initiatives, network growth, and long-term value creation.

The Vice President will serve as a trusted advisor to bp’s US Convenience & Mobility leadership team, ensuring HS&E risks are identified, understood, and managed effectively while driving a culture of accountability, learning, and continuous improvement throughout the organization.

Key Accountabilities

• Own the USCM Health, Safety & Environmental strategy and operating plan, ensuring risks across sites, fueling operations and store environments are identified, managed and mitigated.
• Serve as the senior advisor to the USCM leadership on health, safety, environmental, security, and operational risk matters.
• Lead the USCM HSSE team, setting clear priorities, performance expectations and accountability for safety and environmental outcomes across the network.
• Maintain a strong dotted-line relationship with bp's central HSSE function to ensure USCM continues to apply enterprise standards, tools and governance expectations.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable federal, state and local health, safety and environmental regulations, including DOT, OSHA and EPA requirements, across USCM's store and fueling network.
• Partner with Operations, Construction & Maintenance and Store Support teams to embed safety and environmental considerations into site design, store operations and field execution.
• Lead incident investigation, root cause analysis and corrective action processes, translating lessons learned into practical improvements at store level.
• Provide regular reporting on safety performance, environmental compliance and emerging risks to the USCM CEO and leadership team.

Skills & Experience

• Significant experience in health, safety, environmental or risk management leadership, ideally within convenience retail, fuel retail, grocery or another multi-site operating environment.
• Strong understanding of HSSE regulatory requirements applicable to retail fueling and convenience store operations, including DOT, OSHA and EPA standards.
• Experience leading HSSE teams and building a hands-on, field-credible safety culture across a distributed, multi-site network.
• Proven ability to work across matrixed reporting lines while maintaining clear accountability and independence of judgement.
• Strong incident investigation, risk assessment and corrective action experience.
• Bachelor's degree in occupational safety, environmental science, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience will be considered.

Who you will work with

You'll work with bp's central HSSE function, Operations, Construction & Maintenance, Store Support Organizations, and Legal/Compliance. This role reports to the USCM CEO, with a dotted line into bp's central HSSE function.

Why join BP

At BP, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.

• flexible working options
• a generous paid parental leave policy
• excellent retirement benefits, among others

Travel Requirement:

Up to 50% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

Relocation may be negotiable for this role

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Accounting for people, Accounting for people, Agility core practices, Communication, Continuous Learning, Cost-conscious decision-making, Cost Leadership, Cost Performance Management, Crisis and emergency response management, Decision Making, Driving and transport safety, Fire incident response, Hazard Identification, Health risk management, HSE data knowledge, HSSE auditing and self-verification, Human Performance, Incident investigation and learning, Large scale evacuation, OMS and bp requirements, Personal Safety, Process safety culture, Process Safety Management, Project and construction safety, Reporting and classification {+ 3 more}

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status.Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process,please contact us. If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.