Team Leader

Job Description:

Objective: To drive Safety Initiatives in plant and ensure compliances to Company & Statutory safety requirements for the site and build a sustainable culture of Safety

Title: Team Lead - Safety

Function: Supply Chain - Safety

Work Location: Plant

Job 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

Supervises: Workmen, Labor contractors, Production TL/ Execs, Maintenance TL/ Execs, QA TL, Execs, HR TL/ Execs, Shipping TL/ Execs, Stores TL/ Execs

Reports To: Factory Manager /Plant Manager/Corporate Safety Manager

Key Customers: Corporate safety manager , Factory Manager, Plant Manager, Production manager/TL/ Execs, QA manager/TL/Execs, HR manager/ TL/ Execs, Shipping manager/ TL/ Execs, Stores manager/ TL/ Execs, Labor contractor, Workmen

Internal Customers: Factory Manager, Plant Manager, Production manager/TL/ Execs, QA manager/TL/Execs, HR manager/ TL/ Execs, Shipping manager/ TL/ Execs, Stores manager/ TL/ Execs, Labor contractor, Workmen

External Customers: Corporate safety manager

Job Requirements:

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

Functional Skills:

• Must have sound knowledge about Statutory requirement related to Safety
• Should be from FMCG /Food/Beverage background
• Must have sound knowledge about Risk Assessment techniques CTI/THA, FMEA, HAZOP, What-if, Location/Equipment Risk Assessment
• Must have sound knowledge on emergency procedures
• Should have hands on experience in drafting SOPs , WI
• Must have hands on experience in conducting Safety Audits
• Must have knowledge about budgeting and Capex systems
• Must have sound knowledge of Safety Hardware and systems in factories
• Must have sound knowledge of OHSAS 18001

Travel: Negligible