Workplace Safety Manager Americas

BP • Houston, TX

13d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Workplace team are accountable for managing the end-to-end property lifecycle for bp’s corporate office portfolio. Operating in 50 plus countries and over 100 diverse locations the team are central to the transformation of the workplace experience and the associated services. The Workplace vision is to create and curate safe workplaces that our people love and that help us think, work, and connect together, wherever we are in the world. The Global Workplace team sits within the People, Culture and Communications entity in bp. The team comprises of global centres of excellence and Regional delivery teams who together work with the business to develop and deliver services and solutions complemented by our service partners. The Regional Safety Lead will ensure regional compliance with all relevant global bp policies, Workplace procedures and legal requirements. They will support the development and delivery of the global Workplace health and safety strategy, both annual and longer-term horizon of five plus years. They will be a member of the global Workplace Health, Safety and Risk team, and will need to work in close collaboration with other Workplace teams and business teams. They will lead on developing an appropriate safety culture and drive creating and sharing best practice. From a planning perspective the role will lead the development of regional plan, considering both short- and long-term perspectives, for health, safety and risk for all Workplace activities within the region, ensuring: All applicable bp and Workplace health & safety strategies and procedures are implemented at all properties Regular liaison with country Workplace Services, real estate and capital projects teams to ensure current legislation is captured and adhered to Development of processes to capture and track compliance of Workplace services suppliers Partner with other bp business, to ensure safe, reliable and compliant workplaces in which to optimise their productivity Regular liaison with the other regions to ensure a global consistency of approach, while ensuring regional adherence to legislation The role will also fulfill the Ethics and Compliance Liaison (ECL) role for the region supporting the Senior Manager Health Safety and Risk deliver the Workplace global ECL role. The role will ensure Workplace Services team members are appropriately trained in incident management and escalation, and business continuity planning. This role has indirect budgetary accountability requiring consideration of the financial impact of any processes or recommendations in their decision making and will provide subject matter expertise and functional assurance on multi-million-dollar projects ($10-50m). The functional assurance role is vital in providing go/no go functional decision on any project. The Regional Safety Lead needs to collaborate closely with other SME, regional delivery teams and business leadership to support effective decision making – this will require both day to day and more strategic engagement.

Requirements

• Educated to university degree level or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience developing and operating risk and safety management systems, preferably in a global enterprise with a diverse range of operations
• Experience in leading the growth of a strong safety culture in an organization with a predominantly outsourced service model
• Demonstrable experience in achieving results in diverse cultures and drives an inquisitive yet respectful mindset whilst promoting innovation and continuous improvement
• Good knowledge of managing process efficiency, data quality, systems performance and development
• A successful track record of initiating, leading and managing multiple service functions in a complex environment whilst simultaneously transforming the services
• Demonstrable experience in Health or Safety or Security projects in a large multinational organisation
• Proven track record of leading and developing H&S cultural change, inspiring internal and outsourced partners and teams to deliver high levels of achievement and innovation
• Outstanding collaborator engagement skills, building sustainable networks of using high Emotional Intelligence.

Nice To Haves

• Excellent communications and organisational skills, with English fluency mandatory, but with sufficient language skills to operate in region. Collaborative and flexible in style
• Significant previous experience in an H&S role obtained while working within an operational environment with a strong H&SE focus and culture
• Experience in property management activities
• Experience of effective working globally or in multi-country agile teams
• Having previously worked with the Vested methodology

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist H&S subject matter advice support to Workplace activities in the region to meet safe, reliable and compliant operations both in the short and long term
• Coordinate and support the implementation of bp and Workplace procedures, policies, standards and defined practices within the region - including H&S, ethics & compliance, data privacy, cyber & other security matters. In so doing providing a long-term operational frame to support safe delivery
• Support the regional Workplace Services team in developing and maturing site risk registers
• Ensure all third-party partners (Vested, IFM suppliers, landlord and vendors) fully stay in sync with bp and Workplace H&S policies
• Manage notification, reporting & incident investigation for all Workplace incidents in the region. Drive the development of a strong safety culture across the regional Workplace team
• Support business leaders in implementing the Office Safety Expectations at all regional offices developing collaborator relationships as necessary
• Provide subject matter expertise into all real estate and capital projects in the region eg. H&S technical due diligence for workplace projects, and compliance assurance
• As regional ECL lead on maintaining awareness of and adherence to bp Code of Conduct and supporting on any concerns raised.

Benefits

• At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious 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.
• There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits ( https://exploreyourbenefits.com/landing.html ) 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!
• We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level