Customer Service Concerns/Advice Handling Officer

We are looking for motivated and dedicated customer focused people to join the team to play an important role in ensuring that HSE / BSR provides a professional response to Health and Safety Concerns, RIDDOR reports and Advice requests, within strict deadlines.

Working in The Customer Service Team, your role will be to assess / Triage RIDDOR’s and health and safety concerns, contact businesses and customers, to ensure cases are resolved in line with expectations and service levels.

You will be responsible for processing your assigned work, and making an assessment on the most appropriate regulatory response. You will work collaboratively with internal and external customers to obtain accurate and relevant information. You will ensure that responses are professional, accurate and timely.

Senior Regulatory Ecotoxicologist

As a Senior Regulatory Ecotoxicologist you will be part of a team that is delivering HSE objectives. The UK having left the EU offers an exciting opportunity to develop and shape our regulatory schemes for the future.

With a world-class reputation for safeguarding the health and safety of people at work, HSE is adapting and evolving to meet the new challenges ahead. To help us meet these challenges, we require an ambitious Senior Regulatory Ecotoxicologist to join us.

Ecotoxicologists evaluate data from standard regulatory studies on the toxicity of pesticides, biocides or other chemicals to a wide range of non-target organisms such as birds, mammals, aquatic organisms, bees, non-target arthropods, earthworms and soil macro and micro-organisms as well as non-target terrestrial plants. This information, in addition to data on exposure, is used in carrying out the associated regulatory environmental risk assessments. These assessments are performed for substance approval and product authorisation under the GB PPPR (Plant Protection Product Regulation) and GB BPR (Biocidal Product Regulation) and to support hazard classification under the GB CLP (Classification, Labelling and Packaging) Regulation.

You will mentor and support members of the team, provide peer review of work, lead on specific technical aspects including the development of new guidance, and provide advice to specialist and policy colleagues and wider stakeholders. There will also be opportunities for you to lead for HSE on national and global activities, to ensure we keep pace with new and emerging issues in the field of regulatory ecotoxicology.

If you would like more information on this role, please follow the link below.

Portfolio Support Officer (FTC 12 Months)

In this exciting role, you will support our Portfolio Management Office by providing administrative and secretarial support to the Portfolio Management Office team.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone that has solid administrative skills, is organised, can take ownership of tasks and is keen to develop in the world of project and portfolio management.

As part of the PMO Team your main duties will be:

Organise and attend governance meetings to provide accurate and timely written records of minutes, actions and decisions for distribution to meeting attendees
Plan and organise workshops, events and away days (supported and mentored by more senior staff), including checking availability of required attendees, booking meeting rooms and facilities, and distributing associated papers in advance and after meetings
Communicating across the Division to prompt and gather information
Maintain portfolio documentation whilst adhering to version control and assist with making revisions to templates, standard documentation and frameworks
Monitor the PMO mailbox and ensure that queries received are answered in a timely manner – including referral of queries to other team members as needed
Assist with revisions of the PMO SharePoint site and ensure it is populated with the most up to date tools and templates
Involvement in wider PMO or Portfolio initiatives, e.g., involvement in working groups and activities to support the continuous development and improvement of work processes
Supporting and delivering elements of team training and PMO inductions for new PMO team members
Provide ad hoc support (e.g., arranging travel and stationery)
Other Duties – To deliver services effectively, a degree of flexibility is required, and the post holder may be required to perform work not specifically referred to above. Such duties, however, should not normally exceed those expected of an employee at that grade.

Assistant Director of Finance

You will lead the finance business partnering function, providing quality insight, challenge and rigour across the organisation to deliver operational and corporate activity targets within accurate financial forecasts.

You will also lead on Strategic Finance within HSE, overseeing multi-year financial planning. This will include the preparation for Spending Reviews as well as providing financial support to HSE’s major programmes. You will manage the activity-based costing system and HSE’s costing and pricing policy to support its Fees and Charges.

As part of your role you will:

Develop and maintain the medium term (3-year rolling) financial strategy and budgets linked to the activity based costing and other supporting plans (e.g. workforce, estates, IT etc). These will be reviewed quarterly with Directors to inform strategic decision making and ensure HSE makes optimal use of the available resources and/or takes early mitigating actions, where necessary. This information will inform Spending Reviews and other prioritisation decisions taken by the Executive Committee.
Provide leadership to the business partnering teams, empowering them to develop new ways of working concentrating on reducing transactional activity and focussing on challenging the business robustly and adding value through insight.
Develop the Business Partners into one team using consistent standards and processes whilst developing a resilience to ensure service delivery across all divisions.
Provide financial leadership on divisional business planning and budgeting, through continually improving a process that is fully integrated and links prioritisation, business planning, cost drivers, resource, cost recovery income and works closely with the Financial Management and Performance teams.
Lead the business partnering team through the monthly forecasting process, undertaking the initial challenge of the financial position to understand the drivers of the forecasts together with the risks and opportunities.
Work with divisions to understand their requirements and using best practice to remove wasted effort and duplication in processes including business cases, prioritisation, budgeting and forecasting.
Reviewing the key outputs of the business partner team to identify further improvements as well as coaching and supporting them to deliver a high-quality service.
Lead the activity-based costing across divisions through business partners, identifying improvement opportunities for key cost drivers and ensuring Fees and Charges are laid in Parliament.

Delivery Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for a Delivery Manager to join our growing Operational Services Division.

You will have the chance to manage and take ownership of projects throughout their lifecycle, leading collaborative and dynamic planning to provide a seamless delivery of products and services to the wider business.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual looking to make their mark on an organisation.

If you’re interested in finding out how you can apply, follow the link below to begin your HSE journey.

Health Safety and Wellbeing Business Partner

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 3/SEO Health, Safety and Wellbeing Business Partner to join our team.

As an HSW Business Partner (HSWBP) you will have responsibility for supporting and influencing HSE divisions in building an excellent health, safety and wellbeing culture. This is a key role working alongside senior leaders, HSW team colleagues, HR Business Partners, HSW committees, HSE divisions, support functions and stakeholders. You will be required to utilise your influencing skills and provide constructive challenge to build strong and trusted relationships with the Directors and senior teams who lead the HSE Division(s) you will support. You will need to use your expertise to gain credibility from day one to enable Divisions to plan, prioritise and progress HSW which are aligned to HSE’s recently published 10-year strategy ‘Protecting People and Places 2022-2032’ and to advocate health, safety and wellbeing cultural excellence in HSE.

You will use your leadership skills to:

Influence, coach and support senior leadership teams to achieve HSW cultural excellence in their area.
Influence thinking and actions on HSW culture at divisional and organisational level.
Lead groups to identify and implement improvements to HSW policy and procedures and culture.
Represent the HSW team and HSE at internal and external meetings and events.
Build and maintain effective HSW support networks.

QA Tester

We are looking for a QA Tester to join our Information Technology Services (ITS) Division, to support the QA Test Manager with testing of Digital and Technology Services, including all infrastructures and components, during the delivery of Major Change Programmes and Continuous Improvement pipelines. You will work within programmes structured to deliver both Waterfall and Agile methodologies, ensuring that user functional and non-functional requirements are delivered completely and appropriately. You will prioritise and report defects, to allow Programme Management to determine the progress of development and to manage the risks associated with delivery. This role will engage with users, supporting their needs and ensuring that a high-quality customer-focused service is delivered.

Key Responsibilities

Support on the definition, management and execution of Test Strategies, Test Approaches and Test Methodologies to be used by HSE, encompassing Data, Unit, Integration, System, Acceptance, User, Performance, Security and Compatibility.
Manage the delivery of all testing, including writing test plans, test cases and test scripts to ensure the quality delivery requirements.
Support QA team with Management Information (MI and reporting) of the quality of the Digital and Technology Services within Major Change Programmes, Change Projects and Continuous Improvement projects.
Manage the identification, recording, analysis and prioritisation of all Defects and coordinate the re-testing of all Defects within Major Change Programmes, Change Projects and Continuous Improvement projects.
Develop and maintain testing documentation and procedures.
Support the Change Lifecycle, testing changes for Digital and Technology Services.
Work with and ensure the quality of Suppliers developing applications and systems for the HSE.

If you would like more information on this role please follow the link below.

Executive Assistant to the Director of Regulation

The Director of Regulations Office (DoR) has a wide and varied role. Directly supporting the Director of Regulation, functions include:

Supporting operational delivery, monitoring operational performance and fostering cross-divisional working.
Delivering specific cross- divisional strategic priorities and projects, and;
Liaising on behalf of operational divisions internally, across government and with wider stakeholders.

DoR is split in to four primary areas: Regulatory Practice Team, Regulatory Policy and Competence Team, Regulatory Performance and Oversight Team

As well as planned work, work in DoR is very often reactive with extremely short deadlines. Working across teams is common to meet these demands. The post will require you to be able to work independently and as part of a team, work with senior HSE leaders and have strong organisational literacy and communication skills being able to work to a deadline with an ability to prioritise and manage several important and urgent tasks at once.

As part of your role you will:

Act as main the general main point of contact and provide support to the Director of Regulation
Oversight and proactive diary management of inbox and arrange appointments ensuring best use of Directors time, resolving conflicting meeting requirements
Manage travel arrangements, accommodation and travel itineraries
Schedule meetings, attend meetings as requested and take notes\actions as required
Act a Secretariat to monthly Regulatory Operations Meeting (ROM) including preparation, circulation of papers, and minute taking.
Work in tandem with your job share to partner in the delegation of duties.

Structural Engineering Principal Engineer

We are looking for an experienced structural engineer to join the Engineering Materials Team in the Major Hazards Capability Group within HSE’s Science Division. The team supports the wider HSE through materials and engineering-related research, with focus on supporting the Building Safety Regulator, achieving Net Zero, and incident investigation.

Job description

You will work within the Engineering Materials Team leading their research related to building safety and structural engineering, as well as supporting HSE incident investigations. As a Structural Engineering Principal Engineer, you will take a leading role within the team including the development of research programmes for both government and industry clients with a particular focus on work with the Building Safety Regulator. You will contribute to the strategic direction of research within the Engineering Materials Team, and the wider Major Hazards Capability Group as well and influence HSE and BSR policy. You will be part of a team of specialists and will also collaborate with experts across other disciplines in science, engineering, analysis, regulation, and policy.

If you would like more information on the role, please follow the link below.

Policy Advisor

A crucial part of our mission to protect people and places is to reduce work-related ill-health, and we have two roles working on health policy and two roles working in major hazards and net zero policy. All will involve working collaboratively with colleagues from across science, regulatory and policy disciplines, along with engaging across Government and industry.

Post 1 – Respiratory Health Policy Team: Working with colleagues on the area of COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) Regulations.

Post 2 – Occupational Health and Musculoskeletal Disorder Policy team.

Post 3 – Chemicals and Land Use Planning policy team – you will support policy development relating to onshore major hazards and energy sectors and new and emerging onshore major hazards technologies.

Post 4 – Hydrogen Heating Programme team – you will support the delivery of HSE’s input to the Department of Energy and Net Zero Clean Heat programme.

B3 policy advisors are expected to work flexibly in line with policy priorities which will change over time. There are other B3 policy posts in EPD which will become available in the coming months and any reserve list will also be used to support filling of these posts. If you are offered a role from the reserve list, positions may not be restricted to the teams mentioned above and we cannot guarantee your preferred team. Roles will be offered in merit order.