Senior Operational Safety Advisor Land Transportation

Entity:

Production & Operations

Job Family Group:

HSSE Group

Job Description:

Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner

Join our team as Senior Operational Safety Advisor Land Transportation!

In this role, you will shape bp’s  approach to land transportation safety, including road or rail. As subject matter expert, you’ll integrate Group requirements into the Operating Management System, guide our Life‑Saving Rules, and act as custodian of our land transportation monitoring tools, methodologies and definitions.

You’ll partner closely with businesses and other HSE&C teams to provide input on risk, be part of incident investigation or perform gap assessments. You will provide expert advice, coaching and capability development. You will work to achieve an integrated, consistent and standardized approach in managing land transportation risk and barriers as well as identify improvement opportunities.

In this role, You will:

• Be the owner of the Driving Safety GDP, Safe Movement of Rail GDP, and Mobile Equipment GDP. Provide advice, clarifications and evaluate deviation and extension requests from the businesses.

• Lead the development of land transportation safety strategy for bp, to drive where possible consistency and standardization in approach and standards.

• Lead writing of land transportation related SORC/GORC papers.

• Act as Subject Matter Expert for the “Driving” Life-Saving Rule.

• Support the line to deliver the intent of OMS to systematically identify land transportation safety hazards, assess risk, and implement and maintain risk reduction measures.

• Develop guides (GGs), policies, procedures, processes and standards at bp Group level.

• Support businesses to drive continuous improvement on land transportation safety including AI.

• Develop Self Verification protocols to verify conformance with land transportation safety requirements and provide support to businesses on this.

• Monitor health of land transportation safety through metrics, KPI’s, trend analysis.

• Support development of new land transportation, safety leading and lagging metrics.

• Assist in developing land transportation safety communication, competency and training offers.

• Be owner of the Driving Safety Questionnaire and first point of contact with the IT vendor.

• Collaborate with bp Fleet Cluster Category Manager to implement new vehicle technologies.

• Drive consistency of land transportation safety inputs to entity risk registers across businesses.

• Support development of implementation plans for bp’s land transportation safety processes and associated supporting documents.

• Lead the relevant bp global Community of Practice to share learnings, successful practices and continuous improvements, build capability and foster professional pride in the discipline.

• Act as bp representative on the IOGP Land Transportation subcommittee and any external NGO’s, benchmarking groups or industry groups.

• Benchmark internal and external performance to identify improvement opportunities and actively seek and share learning.

• Provide general HSE&C support to the business.

What you need to be successful:

• Degree level education or equivalent experience in engineering, safety or relevant technical field

• Proficiency in English

• Expertise in land transportation safety

• Extensive understanding of land transportation activity

• Ability to translate technical skills into pragmatic advice and support

• Ability to influence across all levels in bp

Why join our team?

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 crafting 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, collaboration spaces in a modern office environment, and many others benefits!

Travel Requirement

Up to 25% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Accounting for people, Accounting for people, Communication, Continuous Learning, Control of Work, Cost-conscious decision-making, Crisis and emergency response management, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Driving and transport safety, Hazard communication, Hazard Identification, HSE, HSE data knowledge, HSSE auditing and self-verification, Human Performance, Incident investigation and learning, Influencing, Land Transportation, Large scale evacuation, OMS and bp requirements, Operational Safety, Personal Safety, Process safety culture, Process Safety Management {+ 13 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.