Jonathan Lilien
General Manager, Health Safety Environment
- Role
- Gm, Hse - Offshore at Chevron
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jonathan Lilien
General Manager, Health Safety Environment (HSE) for Chevron• 23+ years energy industry experience across the Americas, Eurasia, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East• Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering from UCLA. Former Adjunct Professor at Stanford and USC • Multi-Lingual: English (native), Spanish (fluent), Portuguese (fluent), Hebrew (conversational), French (basic)• Dynamic leader and team builder to safely deliver complex projects and operations across the globe
Experience
Gm, Hse - Offshore
Oct 2025 — Present · Houston, TX, US
HSE lead for Chevron’s global offshore business with joint accountability to deliver industry leading operational excellence (OE), cost performance, and risk management through disciplined execution of the OE management system. Serves on the Offshore Leadership Team and Upstream HSE Leadership Team and as the functional decision maker on OE initiatives across the offshore.• Leads HSE execution across offshore regions (Gulf of America, Eastern Mediterranean, Nigeria, Angola and South America), which represent ±1/3 of Chevron enterprise value BOE/day). Ensures offshore HSE delivery consistently reflects enterprise performance targets and upstream priorities, including zero fatalities, serious injuries and significant loss of containment events.• Drives transformation of the offshore HSE operating model to improve business outcomes through centralization, standardization, simplification, and effective use of central teams. • Builds, sustains, and enables leadership OE stewardship through structured Offshore OE Leadership Team (OELT) and OE Execution Team (OEET) governance, ensuring consistent, data driven agendas, performance reviews, and learning.• Identifies synergies across offshore regions, accelerates adoption of OE learnings and best practices, and leads competitive performance initiatives.• Champions integration of technology, digital solutions, and AI to improve assurance, environmental performance, and operational outcomes, including transition of prioritized workflows to the Engine (engineering & innovation center) in India. • Inspires, develops, and coaches a globally-dispersed offshore HSE organization (>200 employees), fostering collaboration across regions and central teams, strengthening leadership capability, and removing barriers to performance.
Education
UCLA
Doctorate, Environmental Science & Engineering
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