Head – EHS

Location: Angul, Odisha
Function: Environment, Health & Safety
Reporting To: Plant Head / Executive Director
Level: Senior Leadership

1. Job Purpose

Lead and drive the Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) function for a 12 MTPA integrated steel plant, ensuring a secure, compliant and sustainable workplace across existing operations as well as ongoing expansion and brownfield projects.

The role will provide strategic and operational leadership for occupational safety, process safety, construction/project safety, contractor safety, emergency preparedness and safety culture transformation, with a strong focus on preventing fatalities, serious injuries and high-potential incidents.

The incumbent will establish robust EHS systems, strengthen risk-based safety management, ensure statutory compliance, and embed visible safety leadership and a Zero Harm culture across employees, contractors and project partners.

2. Key Responsibilities

A. Strategic Safety Leadership
- Develop and implement the plant's overall Safety Strategy,



Roadmap and Annual Action Plan aligned with business objectives and expansion plans.
- Provide leadership and direction to the EHS team across all operating units, projects and support functions.
- Establish and drive Safety KPIs, leading indicators and performance dashboards for the plant.
- Periodically review safety performance with Plant Leadership and drive corrective and preventive actions.
- Build a strong Safety Ownership culture, making line functions accountable for safety rather than treating EHS as the sole custodian.
- Drive behavioural safety and visible safety leadership initiatives across the organization.

B. Operational & Process Safety
- Ensure robust safety management across critical steel-making operations including:
- Blast Furnace
- Coke Oven / By-product areas
- Sinter / Pellet Plants
- Steel Melting Shop
- Continuous Casting
- Rolling Mills
- Power & Utility systems
- Material Handling and Logistics
- Oxygen / Gas

📌 HOD (Angul)
🏢 Jindal Steel
📍 Angul