Mechanical Engineering Team Leader

HSE’s Mechanical Engineering Specialists investigate incidents, inspect workplaces, advise on safety benchmarks, and enforce the law. We explain why the most serious work-related incidents happen and identify their underlying causes, applying the legal systems of Scotland, England, and Wales, securing justice for the victims and their families through providing factual and expert evidence in Criminal Courts, Coroners’ Inquests, and Fatal Accident Inquiries.

As the Principal Mechanical Specialist Inspector – Team Leader, you will be based in HSE’s Specialist Division. You will be responsible for leading and managing up to 8 chartered mechanical engineers based in various offices across the country. This job of the team leader is to lead and manage mechanical engineering specialists, acting as the team’s focal point for staff communication, welfare and technical guidance, to oversee their support to investigations and inspections from a mechanical engineering perspective, considering geographic factors and relevant technical skills, to deliver business priorities.

The successful candidate will be responsible for performance managing and developing the team in varying stages of developing their expertise, including some in the STP, and onboarding new recruits. Collaborative working is essential across the whole of the Electrical and Mechanical unit, to ensure delivery. You will also need to work closely with regulators in Investigation Division and other HSE operational Divisions and LAs; together with acting as liaison to Science Division to agree and monitor workflow.

Dynamics Functional Consultant

Within our Operational Services Division, we are looking to recruit two Dynamics Functional Consultants.

As a Dynamics Functional Consultant, you will be a functional consultant in our Digital Dynamics Team and will be working closely with projects, business teams, analysts, and user experience specialists. You will deliver and maintain solutions that meet business needs with efficient and effective processes and ways of working. You will be a key part of the digital transformation of HSE.

Key responsibilities and technical skills

Configure the CRM system to meet the business and end user needs. Specifically utilising Customer Service and Field Service modules in Dynamics 365 and utilising Power Platform
Collaborate with developers, business analysts, architects to implement Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions ensuring it operates seamlessly and efficiently with other back-office solutions.
Use of Azure DevOps to record development and configuration activities.
Monitor and assess data capacity within a solution to ensure space utilisation continues to reflect business needs efficiently.
Configure CRM workflows to support business processes, extract data, produce tailored reports and respond to information requests.
Utilise CRM export and import processes to support team requirements.
Manage change and deployment cycles for new and existing implementations across the CRM platform.
Manage the efficient planning and delivery of new updates, modifications, and the adoption of best practice policies, including conducting research to identify opportunities to leverage new functionality within the system that is released by Microsoft.
Manage and coach a team of CRM/ Dynamics Support Analysts.

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Cost Recovery Expenses Manager

The primary purpose of this job role is to deliver an efficient cost recovery and expenses service, as part of the PFPD Cost Recovery and Expenses Team, resulting from the BSR becoming fully operational.

This post will have integral part in leading and managing the newly formed PFPD Team who will support the BSR (Building Safety Regulator) as part of HSE’s finance function. The role will lead on the setting up of the team and the associated areas of cost recovery for its chargeable functions including invoicing, reimbursement of other regulators, debt recovery and oversight of expenses.

The main duties of the role will include:

Line management and leadership of the 2 x Band 5 and 1 x Band 6 team members.
Working closely with the BSR Operational Support, Operational Excellence Team, SSCL (our shared services provider) and other regulators to streamline and improve the invoicing and reimbursement processes.
Overall responsibility for the invoicing and debt recovery function for BSR cost recoverable activities.
Work with officials from the Fire & Rescue Service and Local Authorities to ensure the timely reimbursement for their services when commissioned by the BSR. This includes extracting data from Dynamics and monthly reporting and reconciliation.
Ensure compliance with HSE expenses policies and support the BSR SLT as part of the regular compliance indicator information.

Specialist Inspector (Human Factors Engineering) Band 3/SEO

Within HSE, Chemical, Explosives an Microbiological Hazards Division (CEMHD) Human Factors (HF) Specialists ensure employers across Great Britain work safely, protecting people and places. In this role, you can utilise your technical HF knowledge and experience to influence not only individual employers but whole industry sectors – you get the reward of making a difference and doing work that actually saves lives.

As part of a national team, our HF roles are unique. They suit those who appreciate variety and a challenge, whilst enjoying flexibility and having the support of experienced HF professionals and the widest range of health and safety experts in Britain.

Job description

Key Responsibilities;

Undertake HF inspections, applying your experience and knowledge to identify risk and underlying issues on site, enabling you to make effective decisions on the adequacy of existing control measures. You will have the opportunity to persuade, influence and enforce at all levels to achieve compliance with the law.
Assess the adequacy of safety reports for upper tier COMAH sites, both for new sites and where modifications to a site are planned.
Play an integral part of investigation teams working across industry to seek out accident and incident root causes and identify recommendations to ensure that lessons are learned.
Act as an expert witness, giving your specialist opinion on HF aspects of accidents and incidents.
Contribute to the production and revision of HF guidance and standards for HSE and other industry bodies.
Prioritise continuing professional development, both technically, and in non-technical skills and be able to partake in cross division HF training and coaching.

Inspections and investigations may take you to sites across Great Britain, thus requiring regular travel and overnight stays.

Specialist Training Programme (STP)

On joining HSE, all new specialist inspectors are required to complete a 2-year Specialist Training Programme (STP). This comprises of legal training and assessment to prepare you fully for your regulatory role.

Specialist Inspector of Health and Safety – Molecular Biology

We are looking for a high calibre Molecular Biologist who can, under challenge, think strategically, identify underlying core issues, and engage at different levels both with colleagues, scientists and at the most senior levels within an organisation. You will be decisive and able to influence those organisations to bring about improvements.

To be effective in this role you will need to have:

Strong communication skills to influence change at all levels in the organisations we regulate;
Sound analytical skills to identify underlying gaps and deficiencies related to biosafety;
Initiative and decisiveness, making sound decisions based on available evidence;
Good organisational and planning skills taking responsibility for delivering expected outcomes on time and to the required standard;
The ability to work collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, maintaining positive professional working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders; and
The ability to write effectively, including technical reports and to present complex technical information in a clear and concise way for a non-technical audience.

IT Asset Management Analyst

Core to all HSE work is the data, information and knowledge that we have gathered and developed, and which is used to support our field force of Inspectors, Scientists and policy makers. Information Technology plays a vital role in assuring that HSE staff have the right information, in the right place and at the right time.
Utilising Mobile Device Management technologies to deploy, build and control smart phones, tablets and laptops, HSE has been a leading government department at the forefront of innovative remote working solutions and is continuously looking at how to better support its 1500 Inspectors and Visiting Officers in the field.

You will be a member of ITF Asset Management Team, working with the IT Asset Manager and have direct line management responsibility for IT Asset Team Coordinators. You will be involved in the coordination, integration, and continuous service improvement of how HSE manages IT assets.

You will manage HSEs Software and IT Assets throughout its lifecycle from requirements definition to procurement, operation, and disposal. You will support the definition, establishment, and management of the HSEs Software and IT Asset Management policies and processes, ensuring that HSEs Software and IT Asset Inventory is accurate and trustworthy.

This role can be based in any of the advertised locations however, this team and the IT kit you will be dealing with is physically located in our HQ in Redgrave Court, Bootle and, there is the expectation that you will attend the Bootle office at least twice per week in order to provide cover with the team.

For details of HSE locations please see here HSE Offices

HM Specialist Inspector – Process Safety

Our Chemical Explosives & Microbiological Hazards Division (CEMHD) are looking to welcome five Specialist Inspectors to their successful team, working within their Process Safety Unit.

You will utilise your technical knowledge and practical experience to influence individual employers and entire industry sectors, making a defining impact in keeping people safe at work. Your role will range from inspecting a variety of work places, managing risk to forensic investigation of process safety-related incidents and, on occasion, appearing as a specialist witness at Tribunals, inquests and prosecutions.

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Associate Project Manager

Our Operational Services Division have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Project Manager to join their successful team in one of our UK bases.

If successful, you will oversee a wide remit of responsibilities, ranging from Project Management to Change Control and Stakeholder Engagement. You will have autonomy over selecting the appropriate approach to your projects, managing it’s delivery and defining the work to be done. This is an ideal opportunity for an individual looking to make their mark.

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Procurement Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 4/HEO Procurement Manager to join our growing team.

The Procurement Unit aims to provide commercial focus in the procurement service it provides to the organisation and to implement a more consistent approach to managing strategically important contracts in accordance with the Government Commercial Function principles to help us meet the challenges we face and support the business in delivering its regulatory and commercial functions.

To achieve this we:

Deliver a centralised requisitioning and procurement function which, includes raising non-catalogue requisitions, sourcing, tendering and contract letting;
Provide a contract management function for HSE’s central services contracts; managing both the contractual arrangements and supplier relationships;
Provide support to Science Directorate in relation to its sales/commercial contracting opportunities;
Oversee a Contract Management structure and approach which ensures that high value and strategic contracts are effectively managed in accordance with Government Commercial Function principles;
The primary purpose of this job role is to deliver a contract letting and procurement function and manage one or more of the central services contracts.
We provide external contracts that provide value for money and are managed to deliver greatest operational effect in accordance with Government Commercial Function activities;
We document policies, processes and methodologies for commercial activities;
Ensure Service Levels, Service Standards and Key Performance Indicators within contracts are accurately measured and are met consistently to ensure effective service delivery.

Sharepoint and Website UX/Interaction Designer

We are currently recruiting for a Web/UX Interaction Designer within HSE’s Digital Web and Design Unit to work on our intranet and website. We want people who are passionate about users, happy to work in an agile way and have the skills to enable them to work well with our different groups of stakeholders.

This is a high profile position in the team with responsibility for helping set and driving delivery and performance of our SharePoint intranet and website, working alongside content designers, graphic designers, performance analysts and others. You will need to be comfortable working independently on a range of communication technologies.

You will need good influencing skills and the ability to cut through a variety of competing priorities. You will be experienced in building good working relationships in pressured environments and be an enthusiastic team-player with a proactive and collaborative attitude.

As part of the Civil Service, you’ll be expected to demonstrate leadership qualities, be inspiring about our work and confident in your engagement. You’ll encourage mutual respect, value diversity and our different skills, experience and specialisms.

You will work to ensure quality and accessibility (legal) compliance and general web standards are met. These roles are key in transitioning website to improve engagement with citizens, employers and workers.

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