Team Member - SHE (General Safety)

Job Summary
We are looking for a diligent individual to oversee the implementation of My Sustainability Index (MSI), ensuring regulatory compliance, and upholding Occupational Health (OH) standards. Your role is crucial in managing lab safety, fire prevention, emergency response teams, and risk reduction plans, fostering a culture of safety and sustainability within the organization while ensuring compliance with legal requirements.

Roles & Responsibilities
• You will be responsible for implementation of MSI, ensuring implementation and monitoring of regulatory, statutory, and legal compliance, implementing policies and site objectives across all departments.
• You will be responsible for monitoring and implementing lab safety, implementation and compliance of LOTO (Lock-Out Tag-Out) system, and conducting safety trainings as per plans.
• You will be responsible for OH Management, including coordinating with HR for mandatory scheduled medical check for employees and contractors, conducting half-yearly wellness programs designed based on data analytics, and ensuring the site medical officer identifies and acts on medically abnormal or OH cases.
• As part of your responsibilities in monitoring and managing compliance with fire and explosion related requirements, you will assess fire prevention requirements of the site, implement fire prevention mechanisms, train personnel on fire safety requirements, ensure emergency gears are operable, and conduct one incident drill per quarter.
• Your responsibilities include reviewing shift-wise deployment adequacy of ERT (Emergency Response Team) members, ensuring 100% ERT training, and implementation of fire and explosion safety check list and compliance.
• Your role also involves implementation of risk reduction plans such as eliminating open handling of solvent, centrifuge safety, CAPA (Corrective and Preventive Actions) for low MIE (Minimum Ignition Energy) powder processing equipment.
• You will monitor pest and rodent control activities and relevant records on site.
• As a site coordinator for implementation of MSI (My Sustainability Index), you will be responsible for training on SHE (Safety, Health, and Environment), implementing Gensuite, preparing audit schedules for GEMBA, leadership audits, etc., implementing CAPA for observations from audits, and coordinating with SHE head for preparing and evaluating zone ranking.
• You will also prepare and send minutes of meeting from safety meetings.
• Your responsibilities include ensuring availability, usage and compliance of PPE (Personal Protection Equipment), ensuring N2 (Nitrogen) blanketing for all centrifuges, checking operability of provided machine safety interlocks, and ensuring zero access guard for all rotating parts.
• Your role extends to issuance of work permits, maintaining permit statistics on site, routinely conducting site rounds and audits to ensure adherence to all safety norms, encouraging employees and contractors to participate in monthly safety campaigns, and managing reward and recognition program.

Educational qualification: A B.Tech. or B.Sc. and M.Sc.; Diploma in Industrial Safety

Minimum work experience: 6 to 8 years

Skills & attributes:

Technical Skills
• Hands on experience in fire trainings, fire safety, procurement, and compliance.
• Experience in using SAP.
• Knowledge of HIRA (Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment), auditing and Safety standards.
• Understanding of OH management.
• Familiarity with fire prevention mechanisms and emergency response protocols, including conducting drills and assessing incident readiness.
• Experience in implementing risk reduction plans and CAPA for safety improvements, especially for handling hazardous materials and equipment.

Behavioural skills
• Effective communication skills for conducting safety trainings and coordinating with various departments and stakeholders.
• Leadership abilities to oversee ERT training and motivate employees to participate in safety campaigns.
• Attention to detail in monitoring compliance with safety norms and ensuring the availability and proper usage of PPE.
• Commitment to safety, compliance, OH, and sustainability to promote a safety culture.

About the Department
Global Manufacturing Organisation (GMO)
At Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, we are dedicated to making a meaningful impact on global healthcare through precision manufacturing and innovation. With a legacy of excellence, we are a leading force in the pharmaceutical industry.
We operate 19 state-of-the-art manufacturing plants across Hyderabad, Vizag, Baddi, Mexico, Shreveport, and Mirfield, comprising 8 OSD facilities, 3 Injectables facilities, and 8 API facilities.
Benchmarking manufacturing processes and continuous operational excellence are at the core of our capability to deliver quality medicines to our patients in 66 countries. We manufacture a portfolio of complex APIs and 1,150+ drug master files across key therapy areas such as Oncology, Cardio-vascular, Central Nervous System and Anti-Diabetes. he World Economic Forum has recognised our largest manufacturing facility in Bachupally, Hyderabad, as part of its Global Lighthouse Network. We aspire to be the most efficient pharma operations in the world. Our productivity improvement and digitalisation efforts are key to staying competitive, meeting business imperatives, and meeting our ambitious ESG goals. Building such ‘factories of the future’ is integral to innovation and to build healthcare of the future.

Benefits Offered
At Dr. Reddy’s we actively help to catalyse your career growth and professional development through personalised learning programs.
The benefits you will enjoy at Dr. Reddy’s are on par with the best industry standards. They include, among other things and other essential equipment, joining & relocation support, family support (Maternity & Paternity benefits), learning and development opportunities, medical coverage for yourself and your family, life coverage for yourself.

Our Work Culture
Ask any employee at Dr. Reddy’s why they come to work every day and they’ll say, because Good Health Can’t Wait. This is our credo as well as the guiding principle behind all our actions. We see healthcare solutions not only as scientific formulations, but as a means to help patients lead healthier lives, and we’re always attuned to the new and the next to empower people to stay fit. And to do this, we foster a culture of empathy and dynamism. People are at the core of our journey over the last few decades. They have been supported by an enabling environment that buoys individual ability while fostering teamwork and shared success. We believe that when people with diverse skills are bound together by a common purpose and value system, they can make magic.
For more details, please visit our career website at https://careers.drreddys.com