Head of Health, Safety, Wellbeing and Business Partnering

The HR Division (HRD) is a strategic, corporate, expert division which provides services to the organisation. Therefore, its role is to meet the needs of the organisation by developing, promoting, implementing and embedding best practice in people leadership and management. In addition, HRD is responsible for enabling people to develop and grow and fulfil their potential at work and by ensuring that the organisation is successful.

HRD supports the organisation to deliver its priorities, which include: Creation of the Building Safety Division (funded by DLUHC); Delivery of the UK Chemicals Regulator (funded by DEFRA) Enabling our strategic aim to make HSE a great place to work, and one that attracts, develops and retains exceptional talent.

Upcoming priorities for the whole Division include delivering recruitment remains HR’s number one priority, ensuring we can meet the demands of the organisation whilst continually improving our approach and supporting this with a structured approach to talent through quality development activity; Aligning our reward strategies with our business aims, reviewing and reforming our pay structures; Improving diversity and inclusion as well as reducing bullying, harassment and discrimination is key.

We are focused on increasing BAME representation in our workforce as well as growing the number of women in senior roles. Focus on strengthening our health safety and wellbeing arrangements to support and enable colleagues to work in a healthy environment is important to us, no more so than in current times; Continuing to invest in raising the skills and professionalism of our corporate HR capability and in securing better value from external/ shared service supplier.

Business Partnering

Provision of an expert business- focused HR business partner service to HSE’s Divisions.
Ensure HRBPs use data to establish and drive forward an effective workforce planning framework, people strategies, and to embed HR policy within the HSE workforce.

Health, Safety and Wellbeing

Establish and implement an HSW strategy ensuring HSW arrangements and their outputs contribute to business planning, risk management and overall business performance monitoring.
Lead on all aspects of health and wellbeing within HSE, ensuring appropriate systems and monitoring are in place to ensure the successful safeguarding of HSE employees.

Project Manager

We are looking for a band 3/SEO Project Manager to join our team within the Operational Service Division (OSD) in HSE.

The role of the Project Manager is to lead / manage a project and the project team on a day-to-day basis. The Project Manager is responsible for driving and overseeing the delivery of the project to ensure that the objectives are clearly defined and achieved within the agreed time, cost, and quality constraints. The Project Manager has a key role in project governance and working with stakeholders, to ensure the agreed project outputs are delivered to enable benefits to be realised.

This is an exciting opportunity to help us lead, drive and deliver significant change across HSE, driven by a new strategy and a number of new and challenging transformation programmes.

Senior Regulatory Scientist – Exposure Team

The Non-dietary Exposure Team’s function is to assess occupational and other non-dietary exposure of people to pesticides and biocides. This is an exciting time to join the team and you will play a leading role in developing the UK Government’s approaches to assessing the risks arising from exposure to chemicals and work with a variety of national and international organisations and experts. To help us meet these challenges, we require two ambitious senior regulatory non-dietary exposure experts to join us in undertaking occupational and non-dietary exposure assessments of biocides and pesticides.

You will already be an established professional in occupational and non-dietary exposure assessment of biocides and/or pesticides. Beyond your specialism you will work alongside a multi-disciplinary team of chemical and environmental scientists and other technical experts undertaking risks assessments using range of data relating to biocide/pesticide active substances and products. Your role will be to lead occupational and non-dietary exposure assessments of biocides or pesticides and explain conclusions and decisions internally and externally, to independent scientists, other government departments and relevant stakeholders.

Incident Manager

As HSE’s IT Incident Manager your role will be to restore normal service operation as quickly as possible and minimise any adverse effects on business operations, ensuring that the best possible levels of service, quality, and availability are returned and maintained. You will maintain the highest standards of user and customer focus, ensuring that services are restored to user/customer satisfaction.

You will collaborate with cross functional teams to identify and address root causes for incidents, implementing preventative measures and act as a liaison between technical teams, management, and stakeholders to communicate incident status and resolution times as required. You will also work alongside HSE Resolver Teams to ensure third party vendors and services providers are engaged to resolve incidents within the agreed SLA’s as appropriate.

Key Responsibilities

Effectively manage and support the resolution of IT incidents, ensuring minimal impact on business operations.
Undertake Quality Assurance Checks, providing feedback to HSE Resolver Teams and Third-Party Vendors as appropriate.
Regularly evaluate HSE’s Incident Management processes and implement improvements and efficiencies.
Generate regular (Daily/Weekly/Monthly) reports and Dashboards for management as required, to assess performance and identify areas of improvement.
Support HSE’s Major Incident Manager (MIM) participating in post-incident reviews to analyse the effectiveness of responses, document lessons learned, and implement improvements for future incident management.

Assistant Economist

The Economic and Social Analysis Team provides leadership and quality service in social research/ economics to help HSE protect people and places. We provide high-quality, evidence-based advice covering the full breadth of HSE’s remit, producing analysis and research used across UK Government, industry, academia, international bodies e.g. OECD and EU.

HSE economists provide advice and analysis on the development of HSE strategy/ policy in tackling serious occupational injury; work-related ill health including cancer and mental health; and serious industrial accidents.

As part of a specialised team, currently comprising seven Economists and eight Social Researchers, Assistant Economists (AEs) have many opportunities to take on responsibility and develop their skills. The Economic and Social Analysis Team provides advice across the scope of HSEs remit – from offshore oil and gas exploration to genetically modified organisms – and this offers great variety to AEs that will help form a solid basis for a career as a government economist.

While in post, the successful candidate will be required to apply to join the GES through the annual Assistant Economist recruitment scheme within 12 months of joining HSE if you are not a member of the GES already. If you are not a member of the GES and are successful at interview or offered a post, you will be offered a conditional contract until successful completion of the Economic Assessment Centre (EAC). Support will be offered to maximise the likelihood of success.https://www.gov.uk/guidance/assistant-economist-recruitment

Senior Management Accountant

You will support the Head of Financial Management and senior colleagues, providing advice on a range of budgeting, accounting and reporting issues, ensuring HSE complies with HMT’s Consolidated Budgeting guidance and adheres to Managing Public Money.

Across a typical month, you will initially focus on production of monthly management accounts, ensuring financial outturn is complete and free from material error. You then will lead and coordinate the collation of the HSE financial forecast, liaising closely with Finance Business Partners to drive the process to deadline, prioritising areas of materiality and volatility such as Payroll, Programmes and Income.

You will use your analytical skills to produce insight and understanding of the underlying financial position to assist report production to Executive Committee, HSE Board and our sponsor department DWP. You will play a central role in assisting with detailed financial performance reviews to provide Finance and Senior Leaders with high quality information on which to base decisions, at key points in the financial year.

You will be supported by a small team of part-qualified finance professionals and trainees, which you will lead, provide direction, ensuring they adopt a culture of continuous improvement.

You will also take the lead with maintaining HSE Orgs and Structures within ERP system (SOP/SSCL), and ensure effective controls are in place to maintain accuracy of data in financial reporting systems such as Hyperion and QlikView.

Finance Officer

Are you interested in pursuing a career in finance and looking for an entry level opportunity? We are advertising for 2 x Band 5 Finance Officers working within the Central Finance team. The roles provide key support for PFPD’s financial reporting function that produces monthly outputs to ExCo/Board/DWP, plays a key role delivering HSE’s Annual Report and Accounts (ARA) and provides essential finance and accounting support in areas such as non-current assets, reconciliation of the balance sheet and forecasting and budgeting.

These roles provide opportunity for candidates to develop a wide variety of finance experience through exposure to a range of accounting queries we see in PFPD. The role will suit an individual who has experience working in a deadline driven and fast paced dynamic environment and enjoys working with financial reporting products such as Excel.

We will provide excellent training opportunities which will accelerate your career such as Level 4 or 7 Finance Apprenticeships, on the job support from experienced members of the Central Finance Team and L&D opportunities with HSE to develop your softer skills.

HM Specialist Inspector – Electrical, Control & Cyber Security

We have an exciting opportunity for a HM Specialist Inspector to join our growing team. This role is challenging yet rewarding and offers a breadth of work that is unique across a huge variety of industrial sites and processes.

Inspectors can be involved in detailed technical analysis of Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) safety reports on one day, inspecting control systems and talking with engineering staff on site the next or perhaps involved in the aftermath of a major accident, working to find out the root causes and prevent a re-occurrence. It’s also an engineering role where you may be appearing in Court as an expert witness or perhaps working with committees on new Standards to drive improvements in industry. You’ll often have to make difficult decisions and use your enforcement powers to ensure compliance with the law but you’ll receive world class training to give you the skills to do this.

Operational Performance & Modelling Subject Matter Expert (SME)

We have an exciting opportunity for an Operational Performance & Modelling SME to join our growing team. You will be responsible for overseeing the design, deployment and ongoing generation of reports in Power BI for all operational branches of BSR. Initially the focus will be on measuring and amending modelled assumptions against reality, these will then cover tracking, reporting and monitoring of; availability; utilisation; productivity; and target completion. Significant liaison with Operational Leads across BSR is required to ensure each part of BSR is serviced with high quality management information and reporting.

HM Specialist Inspector – Electrical Engineer (Electrical Power Systems)

We have an exciting opportunity for a B3/SEO HM Specialist Inspector in Electrical Engineering to join our team within HSE.

Our main responsibility is to address major accident hazards in relation to electrical power systems (EPS) at onshore major hazard installations, which includes oil refineries, oil and gas storage, chemicals production, explosives and microbiological sites.

You will:

Inspect a variety of major hazard installations, either on your own or part of an expert team, to make sure the risks associated with electrical power systems are suitably managed and that operators comply with the law.

Technical assessment of safety reports and plans provided by major hazard sites (both new and existing), setting out how they intend to manage risks.

Investigate safety retailed accidents and incidents involving electrical power systems in the major hazards industries.