Health & Industrial Hygiene Discipline Lead

Entity:

Technology

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, motivated by elite insight and expertise. We’re always targeting for more innovative digital solutions, balanced 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!

About the role

Responsible for assisting businesses by providing industrial hygiene (IH) guidance, implementation plans, and delivery support to ensure compliance with the IH requirements of OMS 3.4 and the health-related aspects of OMS. The role is responsible for developing and delivering the business's industrial hygiene practices, while establishing, maintaining, and embedding IH procedures and standards in accordance with local legal and regulatory requirements, OMS, Group and Segment practices, and risk action plans. Additionally, the position provides self-verification of IH compliance programs and OMS industrial hygiene conformance plans, and develops intervention strategies based on industrial hygiene performance trends as well as new or emerging workplace risks.

Location: Houston, TX or Chicago, IL based.
Work Arrangement: Hybrid (60% office / 40% remote)
Travel Requirements: Up to 50% travel

Summary Decision Rights 

• Recommend on IH aspects of annual H&S Plan to the business HSE&C manager. 

• Decide on priorities of annual IH monitoring plan. Perform and/or oversee execution of plan if business lacks embedded IH resources. 

• Recommend on IH risk prioritization as part of annual 3.1 review.  Develop policies and processes to address risks as appropriate. 

• Recommend and conduct exposure assessment, PPE, training as appropriate.  

Minimum Requirements 

• Industrial Hygienist with professional accreditation according to a Certification Scheme recognized by the International Occupational Hygiene Association (IOHA), and a confirmed experience in the difficulty of Industrial Hygiene. 

Job Qualifications

Advising on continuously improving HSE related performance 

• Provide technical expertise and timely information to Health Hub Lead / line management on the ongoing performance of work-related health risk management programs, including new and evolving IH legislation and/or company standards. 

• Provide appropriate professional response to health-related incidents and support and advise on health-related incident investigations. 

• Provide IH support and direction to employees, line management, HR, Legal, HSE&C professionals, and the Leadership team. 

• Interpret IH risk prioritization and apply rational and balanced needs against budgetary demands. 

• Provide technical input to third party IH contract management process as needed 

• Provide IH support as appropriate to product stewardship activities, up and down the supply chain. 

Conducting HSE related self-verification and supporting self-verification plans 

• Participate in compliance verification and audit activities at site, business or segment level as appropriate. 

Issuing and maintaining HSE related procedures and guidance 

• Support exposure assessment of work-related health risks associated with chemical, physical, biological and ergonomic hazards and advise line management on suitable risk prevention or control measures and ongoing risk management strategy. 

• Develop & manage systematic programs to monitor performance and effectiveness of workplace health risk control and management systems where appropriate. 

• Develop IH Policies & Processes for the entity to support compliance with health and safety regulations, and conformance with bp requirements. Integrate any necessary industrial hygiene practice into Site/Business/Segment level Operating Management System where appropriate. 

• Identify, monitor, and prioritize IH aspects of emerging health issues.  

Conducting HSE related activities in support of OMS conformance and HSE regulatory compliance 

• Maintain appropriate and accurate records within ethical and data protection boundaries. 

• Develop relationships with regulators and relevant public health bodies. 

• Develop training packages for the communication of hazards to the workforce and line 

Other competencies:

Professional competence 

• Individual accountability and self-direction 

• Listens and communicates with simplicity  

• Recognizes functional excellence 

• Makes pragmatic decisions  

• Ability to work and influence diverse teams 

• Upholds the ethical framework governing industrial hygiene practice - maintenance of IH records and protection of IH data. 

Health & HSSE competence 

• Health Hazard identification - Skillful 

• Health Risk Assessment – Skillful 

• Workplace health risk monitoring and control - Skillful 

• Workplace Environment – Skillful 

• Health Reporting and Record Management – Skillful 

• Occupational Illness/Injury – Basic 

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 encouraging an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly.
There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and 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:

Agility core practices, Communication, Continuous Learning, Crisis and emergency response management, Data Analysis, Ergonomic Risk Management, Fatigue Risk Management, Fitness for task, Food Safety, Health risk management, Health surveillance, HSE data knowledge, HSSE auditing and self-verification, Industrial Hygiene, Infectious disease outbreak management, Influencing, Medical emergency response, Mental Health, Occupational Health, OMS and bp requirements, Public Health, Self-Awareness, Travel health, Wellbeing programme management, Workforce welfare

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