Director, Health, Safety, Security & Environment

The HSSE Manager owns health, safety, security and environmental performance for the Bangalore lab facility, ensuring statutory compliance, effective risk management, and robust safe systems of work across the lab operations and workplace/facilities boundary. The role is the site's technical authority on HSSE matters and works closely with the Technical Manager and Site Lead to ensure safety is embedded across all operational and engineering activity.

• Develop and maintain the lab-specific HSSE plan, integrated with the site-wide/building HSSE plan.

• Chair site HSSE governance forums and report performance to site leadership.

• Monitor changes in legislation, regulations and building codes relevant to lab facility operations (e.g. flammable inventory storage requirements in India) and implement compliance actions.

• Own statutory compliance for lab-specific hazardous storage and process safety obligations.

• Own and maintain the lab/office operational risk register, covering lab-specific process and operational risk.

• Oversee closure of HAZID/HAZOP actions and technical risk assessments arising from design or process changes.

• Approve and own management-of-change (MOC) decisions from a safety perspective for lab process and operational changes.

• Maintain linkage between the lab risk register and the workplace/building risk register for consolidated site reporting.

• Own Control of Work governance, including permits, risk assessments and task safety analysis for lab-owned activities.

• Approve permits for laboratory infrastructure work, retaining sign-off authority for lab-owned activities.

• Ensure consistent application of control-of-work standards across JLL-administered and lab-operations-led activities.

• Lead investigation and root-cause analysis of lab-related incidents and near-misses.

• Oversee incident reporting and tracking systems (e.g. IRIS) and drive corrective and preventive actions to closure.

• Own the emergency response and security model for out-of-hours facility alarms, fire strategy and evacuation readiness, in consultation with BP Security.

• Ensure hazmat-trained spill response arrangements are in place for lab areas and the external storage yard.

• Hold clinical accountability for first aid, on-site medical response and occupational health provision, in coordination with the BP Health function.

• Ensure adequate first-aid kit provisioning, trained-responder coverage and site medical response readiness.

• Own classification and technical compliance of hazardous material storage and inventory.

• Retain operational oversight of gas bottle and cylinder handling as a safety-critical activity.

• Own classification and disposal accountability for laboratory-origin hazardous waste.

• Own accountability, regulatory compliance and drainage segregation requirements for laboratory effluent and drainage, including oversight of Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) operation.

• Own delivery of HSSE induction and refresher training (e.g. Management of Change system training) for new starters and system users.

• Drive a strong site-wide safety culture and behavioural safety programme across lab operations and workplace/facilities teams.

Qualification & Education

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Environmental Science, Occupational Health & Safety, or a related discipline — essential.

Certification & Licenses

• NEBOSH International General Certificate or Diploma — essential.

• IOSH Managing Safely — desirable.

• Process Safety Management (PSM) certification.

• ISO 45001 (Occupational Health & Safety) and/or ISO 14001 (Environmental Management) lead auditor certification — desirable.

• Working knowledge of India-specific statutory HSE requirements (Factories Act compliance, PESO awareness).

Experience Required

• 10+ years' experience in HSSE roles within process, chemical, oil & gas or industrial laboratory environments.

• 3+ years in a managerial or leadership HSSE role with demonstrated ownership of a site risk register and HSSE governance forum.

• Experience with high-hazard operations and hazardous materials management, including regulatory compliance in an Indian operating context.

• Experience leading incident investigations and facilitating or supporting HAZOP/HAZID studies.

Technical Competencies

-            Strong knowledge of process safety management frameworks.

-            Proficiency in risk assessment methodologies (HAZOP, HAZID, job safety analysis).

-            Working knowledge of applicable regulatory frameworks (Factories Act, PESO, environmental regulations).

-            Familiarity with control-of-work and permit-to-work systems.

-            Incident investigation methodology (e.g. root-cause analysis techniques such as TapRooT or equivalent).

Leadership & Behavioural Competencies

-            Strong influencing skills and the ability to lead safety culture change across a multi-party site (BP, JLL, specialist partners).

-            Willingness and authority to challenge unsafe conditions or work and stop work where necessary.

-            Effective cross-functional collaboration with the Technical Manager and JLL Workplace/facilities teams.

-            Calm, structured leadership during emergency response and crisis situations.

-            Meticulous attention to compliance documentation and regulatory record-keeping.

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