Registered Building Inspector – Technical Strategy Lead

The Building Safety Regulator is Seeking technically qualified professionals to help shape the future of building safety in England.

As a Technical Strategy Lead you will lead on topics related to Building Control and be responsible for strategic direction, technical developments, operational practice and upskilling of others. These senior roles offer a unique opportunity to combine deep technical expertise with strategic influence, contributing to the development of national policy, statutory guidance, and operational practice for complex and higher-risk buildings.

Senior Assistant Economist

We are looking for two experienced assistant economists to provide high-quality economic analysis to business areas across HSE. This role is expected to principally provide support to the Building Safety Division.

You will work as part of HSE’s Economic and Social Analysis Team (ESAT), reporting directly to the Chief Economist. The team, part of the Analysis and Risk Capability Group within HSE’s Science Division, which comprises the analytical function of HSE.

You will provide expert economic advice and guidance to inform decision-making on technical policies relating to buildings. Applying appropriate economic techniques across a range of work to improve the safety and standard of buildings

Economic Advisor

We are looking for two exceptional economists to lead a programme of high-quality economic analysis to business areas across HSE. This role is expected to principally provide support to the Building Safety Division.

You will work as part of HSE’s Economic and Social Analysis Team (ESAT), reporting directly to the Chief Economist. The team is part of the Analysis and Risk Capability Group within HSE’s Science Division which comprises the analytical function of HSE.

Regulatory Lead

We have an exciting new opportunity for 22 regulatory leads to join our team in the Building Safety Division within HSE.

As one of the Building Safety Regulatory Leads, you will lead and manage Multi Disciplinary Teams (MDTs) of regulatory partners i.e. structural safety, planning and fire risk specialists from local authorities, fire services and the private sector to scrutinise the building control applications, building and management of High-Risk Residential Buildings.

This is an exciting time to join BSR, and as part of this team you will be responsible for shaping an internal culture of high performance and continuous improvement and bringing about cultural change in building safety in your community and in the future.

Performance Analyst

This role will be based within HSE’s Science Division (SD) in the spa town of Buxton, Derbyshire. Science Division is an internationally renowned scientific facility for health and safety, employing scientific, medical and technical specialists in a purpose-built laboratory at our 550-acre site.

The Performance Analyst is a role within the Performance & Support Team. The Performance & Support Team reflects the increased organisational focus on performance management and supports the Head of Business Performance, Planning and Portfolio Management in delivering planning, performance reporting, delivery forecasting and operational insight. Your role will enhance our ability to improve performance delivery. If you are passionate about making a difference, we encourage you to apply.

Principal Regulatory Lead

As a Principal Regulatory Lead you will be responsible for leading and managing Building Safety Regulatory leads, who are responsible for the regulatory decisions. These Regulatory leads will themselves be coordinating multidisciplinary teams (MDT) with regulatory partners including Building control and the Fire rescue service and structural engineers, who will provide the expertise to support decision-making.

This is an exciting time to join BSD, and as a part of this team you will be responsible for shaping an internal culture of high performance and continuous improvement and bringing about cultural change in building safety in your community today and in the future.

Advisory and Enforcement Lawyer

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are recruiting three Advisory and Enforcement Lawyers to join the Legal Services Division’s expanding team working on the Building Safety Regulator function of HSE.

The work of the BSR legal team is wide ranging, interesting and challenging. It encompasses criminal and civil proceedings, appeals against civil sanctions in the context of regulation of the building control profession, and supporting BSR’s role as a statutory consultee in planning applications and Inquiries. BSR is playing a key role in HSE’s work to ensure people feel safe where they live, where they work, and in the built environment.

HM Specialist Inspector – Process Safety (CEMHD Band 3/SEO)

Do you have a curious mind about how processes across many different industries work, and a genuine interest in regulating to protect people where they live and work? If so, then this is the perfect role for you!

As a Specialist Inspector of Process Safety, you will be an essential part of the work that CEMHD do. You will use your technical knowledge and expertise to regulate major hazard industries and to influence whole sectors to improve health and safety standards, thereby helping to prevent catastrophic accidents.

The part-time working patterns that can be supported are: 4 days a week, 9-day fortnights and term time working, although some flexibility is needed during the first 2 years due to training, with advanced notice.

Job description

Our Specialist Inspectors of Process Safety help to ensure employers across Great Britain – a whole range of essential industries – work safely. In this role, you can utilise your considerable technical knowledge and practical experience to influence not only individual employers but whole industry sectors.

A career with HSE gives you a rare opportunity to inspect and interact with different and diverse employers and work activities. One day you could be inspecting in a large petrochemical complex and the next investigating an accident at a wood working business.

You’ll work alongside other technical specialists to ensure the work activities of those we regulate are operating within the legislative framework by inspecting, investigating, and assessing organisations.

Your work with HSE will make the most of your experience – whether that’s inspecting a chemical processing plant, assessing a company’s safety report or providing technical assistance to colleagues undertaking complex investigations into serious incidents.

Responsibilities:

Inspect a variety of workplaces, either on your own or with a specialist team, to make sure that risks are being actively managed and reduced, driving improvements, and gaining commitment to comply with the law.
Forensic investigation of process safety related incidents to identify the root cause and where necessary, direct the technical aspect of the investigation, calling in other specialist support and supporting legal action to prevent a recurrence.
Write technical reports to explain your specialist opinion to guide legal decisions.
Appear as specialist witness at tribunals, inquests and prosecutions.

From day one, you will be supported by your manager, team and wider colleagues to understand and develop in your role in HSE. We support your continuing professional development directly through training and through stakeholder support and steering. Whilst working for the HSE and in order to fully understand the legal and enforcement requirements of this role, you will develop your expertise by completing the Specialist Training Programme (STP). This includes a mixture of e-learning, virtual tutorials, face to face workshops and a requirement for you to complete a legal assessment. After this training, you’ll then have wider learning opportunities through your Civil Service access.

The role will include travel 1-2 times a month for inspections across the UK.

Explosives Permissioning Officer

These opportunities are in our Chemicals Explosives and Microbiological Hazards Division (CEMHD). CEMHD specialises in proactively regulating sectors where there are high and sustained levels of societal concern over the potential risks of harm. We understand that these sectors make our modern society and we work to ensure that major hazard regulation continues to deliver its strategic goals.

This role offers a great opportunity to become and develop as an explosives professional, joining the sector at an exciting time as it embraces new technologies and develops new capabilities. You will be playing an important part in ensuring that people and places are protected from the risks associated with explosives.

Research and Insight Advisors

Within our Engagement and Policy Division (EPD), we have two roles available in the Applied Analysis and Insight Group (AAIG).

As a Research and Insight Advisor you will work closely with: AAIG colleagues in the design, management, delivery and application of research and insight projects; Policy, Operations, Intervention Design and Communications colleagues across EPD, where AAIG is based, and; colleagues across the rest of HSE including, specialists in science, chemicals and high-rise residential buildings.

You will have the curiosity and rigor necessary to get to grips quickly with new subjects and to understand not just the technical and legal aspects but the implications for HSE, to demonstrate your analyses are well-informed and authoritative but also to ensure your findings and proposals have influence and impact.

Key Responsibilities:

Understanding prioritised business needs and issues; creating an evidence base on those we seek to influence and support; and ensuring that this understanding influences HSE decision making.
Conducting market, social and behavioural research focused on HSE’s external audiences (e.g. workers, employers, stakeholders and residents) through secondary and primary research, using qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods. Research will be delivered both in-house and through managing external research agencies.
Undertaking internally focused research, analysis and insight of HSE’s operations and delivery.
Generating actionable research findings and insights, and applying them to the design and/or improvement of HSE’s strategy, policy, products, operations, services and communications.

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