Occupational Health & Industrial Hygiene Advisor - Americas

About the role

The Occupational Health (OH) & Industrial Hygiene (IH) Advisor (Americas) provides OH & IH support to the Castrol lubricants business to help meet Health regulatory obligations and improve health risk management across manufacturing, laboratories and offices.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical OH and IH advice to the business to identify, assess and handle workplace health risks, regulatory requirements and exposure controls across operations, projects and contractor activities.
• Support delivery of risk-based OH and IH programmes, such as fitness for task/work, health surveillance, exposure monitoring, ergonomics, fatigue, travel health, infection prevention and other relevant workforce health initiatives.
• Contribute to investigation of occupational illnesses, health or exposure incidents and related causal factors, and help drive practical corrective actions with operations and HSE.
• Conduct or support site visits, reviews and self-verification activities to supervise OH/IH compliance, programme effectiveness and conformance with company standards.
• Maintain, interpret and report OH/IH data, metrics and recommendations, ensuring appropriate management of confidentiality, health records and sensitive health data.
• Support development of OH/IH procedures, guidance and training, and build line and HSE capability to embed practical health risk management in day-to-day operations.
• Provide OH/IH input to emergency response, contractor and service provider oversight, and work across HSE, HR, legal, procurement and external partners to support effective programme delivery.
• Participate in relevant professional networks and communities of practice to share learning and bring applicable good practice into Castrol.

Requirements

At least 5 years’ proven experience in occupational health, industrial hygiene, or occupational/worker health risk management in an industrial, manufacturing or comparable operational environment.

Candidates may come from an OH, IH or related health professional background, provided they can demonstrate strong capability in workplace health risk management and willingness to build depth in the complementary rigor.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree or professional qualification in occupational health (e.g. certified occupational health nurse), industrial hygiene (e.g. CIH), nursing, medicine, or a related health field.
• Working towards, or holding, a recognised OH or IH professional qualification is desirable (for example occupational health certificate/diploma/degree, CIH, or an internationally recognised IH qualification).

Skills

• Sound understanding of health hazard identification, health risk assessment and workplace exposure assessment.
• Ability to interpret data, exercise professional judgement and recommend pragmatic, risk-based actions within an established framework.
• Customer engagement and influencing skills across multidisciplinary and culturally diverse teams.
• Personal integrity and strong commitment to confidentiality, ethics and protection of health data.
• Clear written and verbal communication, strong organization and ability to manage competing priorities.
• Practical appreciation of regional complexity, varying regulatory environments and third-party/distributor operating models relevant to Castrol.

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!