Responsibilities
Strategic Roles and Responsibilities
Understand Adani’s overall strategy and plan for the Fire function, and provides inputs for strategy formulation, with the aim of supporting functional goals Establish and implement a comprehensive fire Management strategy aligned with the group’s long-term vision and operational goals across all the Adani businesses.
Evaluate and integrate business-specific fire related requirements into group-wide frameworks, ensuring contextual relevance and scalability.Drive periodic reviews with business heads to assess the alignment of fire measures with organizational priorities.
Risk Management and Mitigations
Develop and operationalize a risk assessment framework for identifying, evaluating, and mitigating fire-related risks across diverse industries.
Establish protocols for continuous monitoring of fire risks, including high-risk industries such as manufacturing, logistics, and infrastructureDeploy risk control measures tailored to business-specific needs, ensuring minimal disruption to operations.
Crisis and Incident Management
- Design, implement, and test group-wide fire emergency response and incident management plans to ensure preparedness for critical situations.
- Lead cross-functional crisis management teams during fire emergencies, ensuring a coordinated response and safeguarding lives and assets.
Oversee post-incident investigations, ensuring comprehensive root cause analysis and implementation of corrective measures.
Management and Review
- Monitor zone operations and ensure adherence to Fire related SOPs and SOGs.
- Analyze the MIS reports generated and publish reports on a weekly.
- Create Fire related awareness and training programs for employees, contractors.
Fire Control Room Operations
- Oversee end-to-end operations of Fire Control Room, Lead maintenance and upgradation initiatives for the Control Room
- Monitor the operations of the Control Room and ensure proper integration with GSOC.
- Ensure the escalation of all incident and report as per the Matrix.
Investigation & Due Diligence
- Conduct investigation of Fire related incidents and set in motion remedial measures.
Prepare and share investigation reports with BU team on investigations of all incidents.
- Maintain compliance with national and international fire regulations across all group businesses and keep a centralized compliance dashboard for sharing with the leadership team.
- Conduct audits of fire measures and systems to identify gaps, ensure compliance, and recommend improvements tailored to sectoral needs.
- Represent the group in regulatory forums, advocating for policies and standards that align with business requirements.
Drive standardization of fire safety compliance across businesses, ensuring seamless reporting and transparency.
- Lead pilots for innovative fire solutions, such as IoT-enabled sensors or AI-based risk prediction.
- Establish R&D initiatives to continuously enhance fire standards and practices.
Stay at the forefront of emerging technologies in fire prevention, detection, and suppression.
Qualifications
Educational Qualification:
- Bachelor's/ master’s degree, Additional Degrees or Certification in Security Management preferred.
Must-have Experiences
- More than 15 years of experience in the field of fire and at least 5 years of experience in a leadership role in a similar position for large-sized organization and directly report to Head Fire & Security.
- Rich experience leading Fire operations of Access Control, fire suppression system,
- Exposure to varied Fire risk management verticals and seasoned understanding of crisis management and physical asset protection across varied businesses and geographies.
- Experience managing Fire expenditure budgets with exceptional planning and project management skills.
- Up to date knowledge and experience with Fire related compliance issues across varied Security sub domains.