Fluid Flow Modeller

This is an exciting opportunity for a Fluid Flow Modeller to join our team in HSE’s Science Division. You will apply mathematical modelling and numerical analyses to a wide range of health and safety-related applications. The successful candidate will be involved in modelling anything from releases of cryogenic hydrogen to explosions to the transmission of SARS-CoV-2.

This post will be based in the Science Division of the HSE at our Science and Research Centre in Buxton, Derbyshire. HSE’s Science Division is a world leading provider of health and safety solutions to industry and government. The scope of our work requires a diversity of talented individuals.

Pay and Reward Lead

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 Regulator (funded by MHCLG);
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 our pay structures and developing a robust pay business case to deliver appropriate 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.

Senior Learning and Development Manager

As a Senior Learning and Development Manager you will hold a critical role providing strategic leadership for enhancing and maturing the learning offer to build the regulatory and technical capabilities required in HSE as we move through a significant transition period.

This role sits within the HSE’s Human Resources Division (HRD) and will be part of the wider HRD Organisational Development Team. As Senior Learning and Development Manager, you will take direction from the Head of Organisational Development and your role will be to implement corporate organisational development (OD) and learning and development (L&D) strategies and plans which are aligned with HSE’s People Strategy.

You will provide strategic direction to an established learning team and will lead the end-to-end delivery aspects of the Learning & Development plan, ensuring deliverables meet learner and organisational needs, alongside managing a complex training delivery plan.

You will drive forward creative solutions to build a high quality, innovative L&D offer to support the regulatory and technical development needs of HSE Divisions, with a primary focus on the Building Safety Division.

You will lead a team of learning and regulatory specialists to work collaboratively, with energy and pace and will be responsible for developing and leading the provision, ensuring it is aligned to the strategic direction and ambitions of the organisation.

Head of Digital Learning

As Head of Digital Learning, you will innovate and implement best practice approaches in the use of digital learning technologies to support the digital development offer for colleagues across HSE. You will work strategically with key stakeholders to identify the best uses of digital technology and to improve the experience of colleagues engaging with a newly launched Learning Management System (LMS).

You will provide strategic direction to a team of L&D specialists and supporting administrative function, and work in consultation with wider divisional areas in responding to organisational L&D needs. As a recognised expert within your field, you will act as the single point of contact (SPOC) and reference point for all digital learning workstreams, contributing to innovation that influences change and advancement of digital and blended learning and development.

The Head of Digital Learning role carries a significant leadership responsibility and will be responsible for continuing to evolve a Digital Learning Strategy that supports the organisational learning priorities. You’ll demonstrate the highest standards of professionalism and personal integrity in all your activities. Leading by example, you will act as a role model, leading your team to develop a high quality blended learning offer for colleagues.

Working autonomously, you will identify synergies and connections with the relevant divisional areas and teams, such as wider training colleagues, IT and finance, so as to develop and lead on digital learning and technology. With an expert level knowledge of digital learning, you will provide innovative solutions to challenges and be able to mitigate potential risks, using your insight and experience of digital and blended learning.

Solution Architect

HSE’s Information, Technology and Services includes an Enterprise Architecture Team. This team is primarily responsible the development of an Enterprise Architecture (including Business, Data, Applications and Technology domains), defining and executing technology strategy, and also for directing and assuring the delivery of new IT Solutions.

This Solution Architect role is to lead on the Applications Architecture domain, and direct and govern the design and delivery of new application components, and the end-to-end design that uses those components to deliver new digital IT solutions.

You will have a key role in developing application roadmaps, target architectures, and reusable application components, and determining how we best transition from legacy solutions to modern services that help HSE to meet its business objectives.

This is a very exciting time to join HSE. A series of new change programmes are now mobilised to deliver new Digital IT solutions that will replace legacy systems and improve processes. Each programme supports a specific operational area within HSE, but there will be commonality across the solution building blocks that require designing and integrating. There will be a blend of internal and 3rd party resources to deliver these programmes.

Auditor

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is establishing the new Building Safety Division (BSD) with the intention of creating high standards of safety for high-rise buildings and enabling people to feel safe within their homes. Working with residents and the industry to make sure everybody has a voice, BSD will oversee changes to the safety and performance of all high-rise buildings and raise industry professional standards year on year.

You will conduct audits into Local Authorities and Private Sector Building Control Services across England, delivering risk based audits of RBAs to ensure competence within the agreed portfolio. You will monitor and manage the performance of current cases and escalate risks and issues to the Audit Manager. You will also be prepared to instigate and support the enforcement process and procedures, ensuring the consistent application of the Enforcement Guidance tool in different settings to make the correct risk based decisions. In some scenarios, you may come across issues which will require enforcement actions.

Building Control SME – Regulation of the Building Control Profession

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has established the Building Safety Division (BSD) to oversee changes to the safety and performance of all buildings and raise building control professional standards year on year. BSD will serve as a lasting tribute to those who have lost their lives due to poor and substandard buildings and will help ensure tragedies of such proportions as Grenfell are consigned to the past. We are increasing our team, creating opportunities for both technical specialists and non-specialists.

As a Subject Matter Expert in Building Control, you will be responsible for providing subject matter expertise to assist with audits, competence assessments and investigations requiring building control knowledge and experience. You will be working within a team, with other building control professionals, to act as an internal source of technical knowledge for the Building Safety Division. You experience and expertise will be helping to create a safer future across the built environment.

You will work within the Professional Standards Unit, with Auditors and Investigators to discuss specific cases, reviewing and giving feedback on cases.

This is an exciting time to join BSD, and you can help us to shape our shared culture. You will have access to a range of development opportunities including career pathways, developing others through coaching and mentoring other members of the team, as well as Civil Service learning and development

HM Specialist Inspector – Major Hazard Risk Assessment – (CEMHD Band 3/SEO)

The Major Hazards Risk Assessment Unit (MHRAU) within CEMHD is responsible for contributing to the regulation of onshore major hazard sites, with a focus on assessing major hazard risks from Control of Major Accident Hazards’ (COMAH) establishments. Working with other parts of Government, including Scotland and Wales, we also deliver statutory land use planning advice on development around existing major hazard installations and major accident hazard pipelines to local authorities, duty holders, developers and the public at large. MHRAU also provides statutory advice on hazardous substances consent applications for proposals to develop new and existing businesses holding significant quantities of flammable or toxic substances. Maintaining public safety assurance in the land use planning system in relation to major hazards is central to the activities of the unit. Our advice helps to prevent major accidents and, if they were to occur, mitigate the consequences. The Unit undertakes these statutory activities on over 3000 major hazard onshore installations (including pipelines) under the following provisions:

The Planning (Hazardous Substances) Regulations 2015 (Hazardous Substance Consent, HSC).
Control of Major Accident Hazard Regulations 2015 (COMAH).
The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015.
Your role will include:
- Evaluating the technical risk to people associated with COMAH establishments, focussing on the technical assessment of major hazard risk rather than occupational risk.
- Providing statutory and commercial advice on the risks arising from onshore major hazard installations and pipelines, as part of the planning system, to a range of stakeholders, including local planning authorities, other government departments and developers.
- Maintain technical policy topics, related methodologies, hazard assessment or quantified risk assessment tools, and supporting guidance.
- Commission science and oversee its delivery.
- Represent HSE at LUP appeals and inquiries and at technical gatherings of fellow professionals and other stakeholders.
Please note that HSE regulates sites across the whole of GB and therefore in this role you will occasionally need to travel to site, which may involve overnight stays.

Training

As this is a Specialist Inspector role you will undergo a Specialist Training Programme (STP). This is a two-year training programme which includes in-depth legal training and assessment on occupational health and safety during your probationary period. You will be required to complete and pass the full programme. There will also be further technical training relating to regulation of major hazards to be completed along side on the job training to become an established practitioner.

Senior Investigator

Do you have experience in one of the following areas?

Evidence Disclosure
Field Intelligence
Criminal and Civil Investigations

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is establishing the new Building Division (BSD) with the intention of keeping high-rise buildings safe and enable people to feel safe in their homes. Working with residents and industry to make sure everybody has a voice, BSD will oversee changes to the safety and performance of all buildings and raise industry professional standards year on year. BSD will serve as a lasting tribute to those who have lost their lives due to poor and substandard buildings and will help ensure tragedies of such proportions as Grenfell are consigned to the past. Over the coming years, as the powers of BSD increase, we will continue to build our team, creating opportunities for both technical specialists and non-specialists.

As an Investigator within the Regulation of Building Control Profession, it will be your responsibility to work on the investigation and enforcement process, to ensure compliance by building control professionals and bodies with the regulation requirements. The successful candidate will be responsible for leading, planning and carrying out investigations into complaints and allegations. This will also involve preparing material to carry out enforcement actions, criminal trials, misconduct trials and associated appeals. The role requires recent experience in criminal and civil investigation.

For more information on this role, please follow the link below.

Regulator – Regulation of the Building Control Profession

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has established the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) to oversee changes to the safety and performance of all buildings and raise industry professional standards year on year. BSR will serve as a lasting tribute to those who have lost their lives due to poor and substandard buildings and will help ensure tragedies of such proportions as Grenfell are consigned to the past. We are increasing our team, creating opportunities for both technical specialists and non-specialists.

You will support investigations, enforcement, sanctions and audits of the newly regulated building control profession. This includes Registered Building Inspectors, Local Authorities and Private Sector Building Control functions across. You will assist in the delivery of inspections and investigations to ensure competence within the agreed portfolio. You will help to monitor and manage the performance of current cases and escalate risks and issues to the Audit or Investigation Manager. You will assist in the administration of the sanctions process, creating disciplinary orders, leading on the response to enquiries and concerns and you will work as an effective part of the team.