At ENGIE, we are building a cleaner, more sustainable world. Every project we deliver depends on people — and protecting their rights is fundamental to how we operate. We are looking for a senior compliance leader to own labour and employment governance across all our Indian entities, sites, and contractor workforces.

 

This is a high-impact role. You will shape policy, advise leadership, manage regulatory relationships, and drive a culture of compliance across a complex, multi-state organisation.

 

Role Purpose

To provide enterprise-level leadership and subject-matter expertise for labour and employment compliance across all Indian business entities, offices, project sites and contractor workforces. The role will establish governance, provide strategic advice to management, oversee statutory and contractor compliance, lead inspections and complex industrial-relations matters, and drive implementation of labour-law reforms and digital compliance systems.

Key Responsibilities

1. Compliance Governance and Strategic Advisory

• Own and continuously improve the organisation-wide labour compliance framework, policies, standard operating procedures, controls and annual compliance calendar.
• Advise senior management, Legal, HR, Procurement, Operations and project teams on material labour-law risks, business decisions and remediation priorities.
• Interpret legislative and regulatory developments, assess their business impact and lead timely implementation across multiple states and entities.
• Provide functional guidance to site teams, compliance personnel, consultants and service providers, and ensure consistent standards across the organisation.

2. Statutory Compliance Management

• Oversee compliance with applicable central and state labour and employment laws, including provident fund, employee state insurance, contract labour, building and construction workers, factories, shops and establishments, professional tax, labour welfare fund, wages, bonus, gratuity, maternity benefits and related requirements.
• Ensure accurate and timely statutory filings, contributions, registers, notices, records and disclosures, supported by appropriate maker-checker controls.
• Conduct periodic compliance certifications and escalate material exceptions, repeat defaults and potential financial or reputational exposure.

3. Registrations, Renewals and Licensing

• Provide end-to-end oversight of registrations, renewals, amendments, surrender and closure of statutory licences and registrations.
• Manage principal-employer registrations, contractor labour licences, provident fund and employee state insurance registrations, factory licences, construction-worker registrations, professional tax, labour welfare fund and other approvals.
• Maintain a centralised tracker with clear ownership, document repositories, advance alerts and escalation protocols.

4. Contractor and Vendor Compliance

• Establish and lead a risk-based contractor labour compliance programme covering onboarding, mobilisation, monthly monitoring, audits and exit controls.
• Review wage records, attendance, social-security remittances, licences, insurance, workforce records and subcontracting arrangements.
• Drive corrective and preventive actions, contractual remedies and closure of high-risk or recurring non-compliances in coordination with Procurement, HR, Legal and site leadership.
• Periodically review contractor-compliance clauses, evidence requirements and governance mechanisms in contracts and purchase orders.

5. Audits, Risk Management and Management Reporting

• Lead internal, external and site-level statutory compliance audits, including audit planning, sampling methodology, root-cause analysis and closure validation.
• Maintain labour-law risk registers, dashboards, management information reports, heat maps and exception reports for leadership review.
• Support legal, compliance, governance and management-system audits, and ensure audit-ready records across entities and locations.

6. Government Liaison, Inspections and Disputes

• Lead engagement with labour authorities, provident fund and employee state insurance authorities, factory inspectorates and other regulators.
• Manage inspections, notices, inquiries, investigations and statutory proceedings; coordinate fact-finding and prepare or review responses with internal and external counsel.
• Maintain centralised trackers for notices, disputes, litigation and regulatory commitments, with clear strategy, ownership and reporting.
• Represent or support the organisation in conciliation proceedings, labour-court matters and other employment-related forums, as authorised.

7. Industrial Relations and Employee Relations

• Provide strategic support on union engagement, collective bargaining, wage and bonus settlements, strikes, conciliation, workforce restructuring and grievance resolution.
• Advise on disciplinary matters, domestic inquiries, standing orders, misconduct and workplace investigations in coordination with HR and Legal.
• Anticipate industrial-relations risks and support management in maintaining stable and lawful employee relations across locations.

8. Labour Codes and Change Management

• Lead organisational preparedness for implementation of the labour codes and related central and state rules.
• Assess impact on wage structures, benefits, contracts, policies, operating models, systems and budgets, and drive cross-functional implementation plans.
• Design and deliver management briefings, stakeholder workshops and practical guidance on regulatory changes.

9. Compliance Technology and Digitisation

• Own functional implementation and governance of labour-compliance management tools, document repositories, dashboards, alerts and workflow automation.
• Define data and evidence standards, access controls, review protocols and reporting requirements to maintain reliable, audit-ready records.
• Use compliance analytics to identify trends, repeat exceptions and areas requiring management intervention.

10. Training and Capability Building

• Develop role-based training, standard operating procedures, toolkits, checklists, guidance notes and awareness material for employees, contractors and site teams.
• Mentor team members and build internal capability to interpret requirements, maintain evidence and address non-compliance promptly.

Experience and Qualifications

• 9 - 13 years of relevant post-qualification experience in labour and employment compliance, industrial relations, statutory governance and contractor workforce compliance.
• Degree in Law strongly preferred; alternatively, a postgraduate qualification in Human Resources, Industrial Relations, Labour Welfare or a related discipline with substantial labour-law compliance experience.
• Demonstrated experience independently leading multi-state compliance for a complex, distributed organisation with offices, industrial operations, construction or project sites.
• Proven experience handling government inspections, regulatory notices, audits, contractor defaults, union or industrial-relations matters and senior-management reporting.
• Experience in renewable energy, infrastructure, engineering, construction, EPC, manufacturing or another contractor-intensive sector is preferred.
• Hands-on experience with compliance-management software, dashboards, document-management systems and data-driven reporting.

Skills and Leadership Competencies

• Expert knowledge of Indian central and state labour laws, social-security requirements and contractor labour compliance.
• Strong legal and commercial judgement, with the ability to prioritise risk and provide practical, business-oriented solutions.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive accountability across functions, entities, sites, contractors and external advisers.
• Excellent drafting, regulatory correspondence, investigation, negotiation and dispute-management skills.
• Strong programme management, analytical, digital, documentation and management-reporting capabilities.
• High integrity, discretion, ownership and ability to operate independently in complex or sensitive situations.

Key Deliverables / Success Measures

• Effective compliance governance with no material statutory breaches attributable to control failure.
• All statutory filings, contributions, registrations and renewals completed accurately within prescribed timelines.
• Material and repeat contractor non-compliances identified early, escalated appropriately and closed within agreed action plans.
• Audit and inspection findings resolved within agreed timelines, with sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
• Accurate, timely and decision-useful reporting to management on key obligations, risks, disputes and emerging regulatory changes.
• Successful implementation and adoption of compliance systems, standard operating procedures and labour-law reform initiatives.
• Measurable improvement in compliance maturity, evidence quality and stakeholder capability across business locations.

 

 

At ENGIE, every talent has a role to play in accelerating the energy transition. Make a difference and enjoy a fulfilling professional experience. Take on exciting challenges and build a career path that reflects who you are. Join us and be part of the adventure of the century.

 

ENGIE is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all individuals regardless of age, gender, origin, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can contribute and thrive.

 

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