Pesticide Enforcement Officer (PEO)

Our Chemical Regulations Division has an exciting frontline opportunity for an individual to join their team, with a range of locations and working patterns available. The successful candidate will be assessing compliance with pesticide regulations, making key judgements and interventions where necessary.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual with a keen attention to detail and drive to make their mark on an organisation that prioritises the safety and well-being of the wider community.

Interested in finding out what a day in the life of a PEO looks like? Our Enforcement Officers are here to tell you with frequently asked questions about their experience in the role – Day in the life of a PEO

Sound like you? For more information on how you can start your HSE journey, follow the link below and find out how you can apply.

Senior Project Manager

This is an opportunity for a motivated person looking to build upon their Senior Project Manager skills and knowledge, working within the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) Programme.

HSE is currently establishing the new Building Safety Regulator and this role will work across a multi-disciplinary team, including HSE and the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) plus other regulators.

This is an exciting opportunity to work within the People Workstream and to deliver some of the key projects for the successful delivery and transition of the BSR programme. The role holder will need to be able to multi task and maintain progression of three workstreams within the main People Workstream. Delivering against key targets in challenging timescales.

Sharepoint and Website UX/Interaction Designer

Within our Engagement and Policy Division (EPD), 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.

Job description

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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Senior Business Relationship Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Business Relationship Manager to join our growing team.

You will be responsible for managing and overseeing the successful delivery of both the Business Relationship Management team (BRM) and the Divisional Support Team (DST) workstreams. This post offers an exciting opportunity to develop and deliver real improvements in the way we process the significant volume of work that both teams are responsible for. You will report directly to the Head of Service Operations. You will work in partnership with teams across ITS, HSE partners and HSE colleagues to deliver a service seeking for operational excellence.

As the Senior Business Relationship Manager for ITS, you will liaise with stakeholders across the divisions and directorates delivering exceptional customer service. You will work closely alongside the ITS Portfolio Director, adopting a matrix management approach in terms of the resource management and deliverables.

Incident Manager

As HSE’s Band4/HEO 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.

Specialist Inspector – Construction Engineering

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 3/SEO Specialist Inspector of Construction Engineering to join our team.

As a Construction Engineering Specialist, 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 companies.

Your work with HSE will make the most of your experience – whether that’s evaluating the guidance being given to the emergency services in a rescue situation after an incident, identifying the cause of a structural collapse or providing technical assistance to colleagues undertaking complex investigations into serious incidents involving plant and equipment. This role will broaden your knowledge and challenge your engineering skills.

Head of Pay, Reward and Employee Relations

You will play a pivotal role in supporting HSE’s upcoming priorities by ensuring we can meet the demands of the organisation whilst continually improving our approach to both Pay and Reward, Industrial and Employee Relations.

You will lead and direct HSE’s overall relationship and engagement with HSE’s recognised Trade Unions and advising and participating in trade union consultation and negotiations. By supporting, guiding, and advising our senior leaders on relationships and communications you will be helping to maintain a positive employee relations culture and strong working relationships with officials and representatives.

Additionally, you will take the overall lead on development, negotiation and implementation of HSE’s Reward Strategy to ensure it supports business requirements; Managing all aspects related to our Pay and Reward approach. This includes pay related policies e.g. starting pay, and leading resolution of pay related questions.

In this role, you will be part of the HR Senior Leadership Team and will report to the HR Director.

Responsibilities;

Lead the Pay and Reward, Industrial and Employee Relations functions within HSE (approximately 10 staff)
Regularly advise HSE’s Remuneration Committee and other governance forums as required
Ensure remuneration policies and procedures comply with guidance, relevant legislation and maximise positive impact on diversity, inclusion and wellbeing
Develop the range of non-pay benefits to enhance the employee value proposition and
Lead the provision of timely, high quality, legal advice in respect of all aspects of employee relations matters
Support Directors and SROs as required to help them meet their organisational objectives
Management of “Single Operating Platform” HR provision and Leadership of HSE Synergy Programme including managing the relationship with SSCL for provision of HR services

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.

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. The candidate can be based in any HSE office outside of London, but a regular presence in Bootle (where many of the HR Division are located) will be required.

Business Partnering

Provision of an expert business- focused HR business partner service to HSE’s Divisions.

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.

Business Management

Lead focus on tracking, monitoring and iterating the HR Division’s activity to analyse and drive business performance across HRD to support HSE outputs.
Set and oversee the strategic direction across HSE for workforce planning and future shaping activity to deliver the HSE strategy.
Lead on organisational design within HSE

Fixed Term Administrative Officers

We have a fantastic opportunity for 3 administrators to join our Building Safety Division for up to 18 months with the potential of extension or permanency dependent on business requirement.

Providing a consistent customer service, you will support your colleagues in the delivery of pivotal projects across the division, making valuable contributions and suggestions, evidencing your commitment to continuous improvement. You will be a team-player, organised and able to effectively manage your workload.

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Senior Regulatory Toxicologists

Our Chemical Regulations Division have an exciting opportunity for three Senior Regulatory Toxicologists to join their growing and diverse teams based across the UK.

You will apply your expert knowledge and experience to assess human health hazards and risks of a variety of chemicals. You will independently evaluate data from regulatory studies (including animal data), presenting your interpretations to independent scientists and other government departments. This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual looking to make a vital impact in an organisation that strives to keep people safe.

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