Senior DevOps Engineer

We have an opportunity to recruit two Senior DevOps Engineers to join the DevOps Team in the ITS Division. The DevOps Team comprises of internal and outsourced capabilities. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will thrive and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on one or many projects. You will be supporting existing cloud-based services, assisting in the design, and delivery of new cloud-based services as we expand HSE’s digital services in Azure, adhering to GDS principles and using Agile principles.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will help to develop the capability of HSEs newly formed multi-skilled DevOps Team to manage the technologies of a cloud-based IT estate.
You will help establish and then operate DevOps processes, establishing a regime and culture of continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD).
You will work closely with the development and test communities as we strive to automate our processes and implement new tooling.
You will support the design, implementation and management of solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable and maintainable within our cloud environment.
You will deliver the DevOps Engineering support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE.

Senior Strategic Engagement Manager

Sitting within the Strategic Engagement team, this role is ideally suited to someone with excellent judgement and understanding of the impact stakeholders can have on an organisation.

We are looking for a person who can use a variety of different communication skills and has a level of specialist knowledge in External Affairs.

As a dynamic and creative person, you will help to shape the way we communicate with external stakeholders on key priority work areas outlined in HSE’s strategy.

Investigations Team Manager

Within our Building Safety Division (BSD) we are looking to recruit two Investigations Team Manager. These roles are within our Investigation unit, which is part of the higher-risk building operational function. You will be responsible for leading a team of Investigators / Regulators carrying out a wide range of regulatory investigations and criminal prosecutions.

As an Investigation Team Manager you will be providing leadership and management to the Senior Investigators, Disclosure Officers, Field Intelligence Officers and their teams. You will ensure the team provide Residents with appropriate support throughout the investigations process, and any risks that they may be subjected to is identified and managed effectively, as well as maintaining the quality and consistency of the investigatory approach to ensure fair and effective decision-making.

You will be responsible for keeping senior leaders informed about the range, complexity, balance of work and workloads to aid effective workload management across the team. This will include maximising outcomes with the available resource, working efficiently and ensuring staff perform effectively during challenging and changing time.

A key aspect of this role will be to lead and Inspire others, through the demonstration of inclusive leadership behaviours in line with the Civil Service Leadership Statement. You will Provide coaching support to develop investigatory skills.

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

End User Computing Engineer

You will assist in leading the End User Computing (EUC) Team and occasionally deputise for the Senior EUC Engineer.

You will help to manage the HSE’s End User Computing estate (Tablets/laptops/PCs, virtual desktop, Microsoft Teams rooms and smartphones), ensuring that the EUC environment remains available, performant to SLAs/OLAs and relevant to business requirements.

The purpose of this role is to:

Monitor the EUC environment, investigate incidents, resolve problems, and develop and apply fixes and changes.
Deliver upgrades, implement new functionality and seek to continuously improve the EUC environment to support the organisation in better ways.
Ensure that the EUC environment remains secure, protecting HSE’s data and users from cyber-attack and unauthorised loss.
Engage with users, supporting their needs and ensuring that a high quality, customer-focused service is delivered.

Mechanical Engineer (Engineering Incident Investigator)

This exciting opportunity is based in the Science Division of the HSE at our research laboratory and unique outdoor testing facilities 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.

This vacancy is for an engineer to join our Engineering team in the Major Hazards Capability Group. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to contribute to innovative work to support HSE incident investigations, and research and testing projects to directly improve the lives of people in their workplaces.

As part of your role you will:

Support incident investigations, including fatalities, working with other agencies such as the Police and attending incident sites as appropriate. This will involve travel and overnight stays away from home.
Support the development of research and testing work by assisting towards the development of work proposals and presentation of technical solutions to both technical and non-technical staff inside and outside HSE.
Write or contributw to technical reports in relation to incident, research or testing.
Produce expert witness statements and, presenting expert evidence in court.

Senior Dynamics Functional Consultant

We are seeking a skilled Dynamics 365 Customer Experience (CE) or Field Service Functional Consultant to join our team. As a Senior Dynamics Functional Consultant, you will play a pivotal role in the successful implementation and customisation of Dynamics 365 solutions for use by our internal and external users.

As a Senior Dynamics Functional Consultant, you will work with a wide range of multi skilled digital, data and technology (DDaT) roles and project stakeholders all of whom share a vision for a user centric approach and making government services better through smarter use of technology.

In this role you will drive and deliver development and implementation of Microsoft’s Dynamics 365/Power Platform solutions which form part of HSE’s back office and business facing solutions. This will enable the development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs focused on Regulatory Systems. This is a great opportunity for a Senior Functional Consultant looking to develop their Dynamics skillset.

Principal Fire Scientist/Engineer

The Science Division (SD) of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are looking for experienced scientists or engineers, to take a senior role in our Fire Safety Team within the Major Hazards Group. The teams main focus is supporting HSE in understanding a variety of combustion-related topics through the delivery of theoretical and practical research (both lab-based and large-scale). Outputs are used to develop evidence based policy and guidance.

Examples of recent work include the safe use of hydraulic fluids in mines, fire spread in insulation foams, evaluation of fire detectors and combustion hazards related to the use of bio-digesters. The team also supports HSE in its regulatory function by providing scientific support to HSE inspectors, often following industrial incidents. In recent years these have included tunnel and mines fires, warehouse fires, fork lift truck fires and timber frame fires.

The team also works closely with the Building Safety Regulator, delivering research and providing support to this important area of HSE’s remit. Our work is not limited to supporting HSE’s policy and regulatory functions. You can expect to contribute to a diverse range of projects in the health and safety sector including research projects, consultancy or delivery of training for commercial customers and other government departments.

Scientific Laboratory Technician

You will provide essential daily scientific support duties in the Fibres and Minerals Team, specifically but not limited to the Proficiency Testing Schemes (PT).

The PT scheme is a service on offer from HSE. The PT scheme is a quality assurance tool used to assess the performance and accuracy of laboratories, organisations, or individuals conducting specific tests or measurements. It involves the participation of laboratories in a program where they are provided with samples or test materials to analyse, without knowing the correct results beforehand.

Your role will be to provide routine laboratory support within a small team in the delivery of the asbestos PT scheme offered by HSE. This will predominantly involve the production of samples for five international PT scheme and other HSE delivery.

You will be trained and work towards obtaining qualifications in British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) Identification of Asbestos in Bulk Samples P401 and P403 Air sampling and Fibre Counting, or equivalent. This will enable you to support analysis and fibre counting work within the Fibres and Minerals Team.

You will be working in a controlled and safe laboratory environment with asbestos and other potentially hazardous materials e.g. crystalline silica on a daily basis. You will be required to assist in packing and despatch of the scheme samples and quality control samples, as required. Upon successful training the role may include site visits.

As you develop in the role you may be required to work in a laboratory environment for prolonged periods at a microscope. There may be periods of lone working in both the laboratory and office.

Scientific Administration Support Officer

You will provide essential daily administrative and scientific support duties for both the Proficiency Testing Schemes (PT) and Sample Reception (SR) Teams. Further details of SR services can be found on our website here: Health and Hygiene Testing

The PT Scheme is a service on offer from HSE. The PT Scheme is a quality assurance tool used to assess the performance and accuracy of laboratories, organisations, or individuals conducting specific tests or measurements. It involves the participation of laboratories in a program where they are provided with samples or test materials to analyse, without knowing the correct results beforehand.

Your role will be to provide routine administration support for the delivery of the asbestos PT scheme offered by HSE. This will include, but will not be limited to handling the day to day administration of the service, including liaison with UK and international participants. The role will also include packing and despatch duties.

You will also support the Sample Reception Team, processing daily sample bookings for analysis, preparation of customer quotations, despatching sample kits to customers and issuing analysis reports to internal and external customers. Part of the role will involve working in a laboratory environment, handling packaged pathological specimen samples (for example blood and urine) and other packaged potential hazardous materials (for example environmental samples including anthrax and asbestos), in a controlled and safe laboratory environment.

You will be responsible for the essential day to day administration of the services. This will include answering telephone and email enquiries in a timely manner, managing email inbox’s and issuing reports to internal and external customers. Your role will be split between working in an office and laboratory environment.

Procurement Officer

The primary purpose of this job role is to deliver a contract letting and procurement function managing end-to-end procurement and contract letting processes in accordance with the relevant Procurement Regulations.

The Procurement Unit aims to provide commercial focus in the procurement service it provides to the organisation and to implement a more consistent approach to managing strategically important contracts in accordance with the Government Commercial Function principles to help us meet the challenges we face and support the business in delivering its regulatory and commercial functions.