Operational Development Training Lead

We have a number of vacancies across Occupational Health, Occupational Hygiene and Radiation that we intend to fill with external recruitment campaigns in 2025. We are looking for an experienced health and safety trainer to be able to take some of the training burden from the relevant Team Leaders during this defined and expected short-term training demand peak.

This role is primarily about assisting in the training of new Specialist Inspectors within Health Unit, to equip them to be operationally ready at the soonest opportunity. You will use your existing skills, knowledge and experience to be able to ascertain individual training needs and support specialist delivery by adequately preparing new recruits for their specialist roles and their transition into the HSE regulatory training programme for specialists.

You will also produce training material to support the upskilling of Inspectors in other Divisions on specific occupational health risks and controls. In return, you will build on your existing academic knowledge by immersion in the specialist regulatory environment.

IT Asset Management Analyst

You will be a member of ITS Asset Management Team, working with the IT Asset Manager and have direct line management responsibility for IT Asset Team Coordinators. You will be involved in the coordination, integration, and continuous service improvement of how HSE manages IT assets.

You will manage HSEs Software and IT Assets throughout its lifecycle from requirements definition to procurement, operation, and disposal. You will support the definition, establishment, and management of the HSEs Software and IT Asset Management policies and processes, ensuring that HSEs Software and IT Asset Inventory is accurate and trustworthy.

You will manage request fulfilment processes, verifying that all Software and IT Assets are identified, by system, location and user, and all audit requirements supported. You will be responsible that all financial processes are managed and administered in accordance with HSE policies, ensuring the appropriate identification of risks and opportunities.

The IT kit and team you will be dealing with are physically located in our HQ in Redgrave Court, Bootle and, there is the expectation that you will attend the Bootle office at least twice per week in order to provide cover with the team. Therefore, we would encourage candidates to consider if the commute from home to the office is a feasible distance to travel before making an application.

Knowledge & information Mgr

An exciting opportunity is available for a Band 5 (EO) Knowledge and Information Management Officer to join the team within our Information Management Team (IMT). The post holder will support on the day-to-day delivery of HSEs Information Management polices and services, with a particular focus on Microsoft 365 (MS365) and building capability across the organisation.

The role will support HSE’s MS365 Information Governance Manager, providing a centre of expertise and control in HSE and will provide advice and support on all aspects of information management and governance to improve MS365 skills across the organisation.

The post holder will have the opportunity to engage with a wide range of colleagues within HSE and requires a high standard of communication, problem solving, technical knowledge and skills, as well as being flexible & pragmatic.

Dev Ops Engineer

Technology, data, and digital services underpins everything that HSE does. We are a knowledge organisation, with a wealth of experience in keeping people safe. It is the responsibility of the Information and Technology Services (ITS) Division to ensure that everyone in the organisation can access our data and information, to share it and to use it to make effective decisions. ITS support over 3000 colleagues working across Great Britain and, our services keep inspectors functioning effectively and efficiently on industrial sites nationwide, from oil platforms in the North Sea to our deepest mines and quarries.

To deliver Development Operations (DevOps) Engineering for all HSE cloud-infrastructure services ensuring that all technologies (cloud-network, cloud-hosting (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), cloud-storage and cloud-security) remain available, performant to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and relevant to business requirements. Deliver the DevOps Engineering support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE, and support the implementation of continuous improvement (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) for services once live. Operate and deliver the processes, architectures, and services that will deliver all of HSE digital and technology services. Ensure that new cloud-based technologies are secure by design and remain secure during operations, protecting HSE’s data and users from cyber-attack and unauthorised loss. This role will engage with users, supporting their needs and ensuring that a high-quality customer-focused service is delivered.

As a 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.

Technical Policy Professional – Building Engineer (Fire and Structure)

The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) is the Government’s technical authority on buildings. As part of its duties to keep the safety and standard of buildings under review the regulator develops the technical standards for buildings including the full suite of Approved Documents. This role is in the Technical Policy Team of the Building Safety Division and will focus on the fire and structural safety of buildings.

We are looking for a construction professional to work on development of technical policy relating to Building Regulations and building standards. They will have a broad base of relevant fire and structural safety experience as well as a strong practical experience of the Building Regulations. Candidates need to be willing to work flexibly in relation to more than one area of technical expertise.

This post requires a good understanding of technical matters but also capacity to work within the broader policy and political context of Government. The post holder will work closely with other government departments and provide technical advice to support development of new policy which is both deliverable and technically sound. Candidates will be good communicators, able to present technical issues clearly and succinctly and to represent BSR with other departments, industry and standards making bodies.

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Resource Manager

We are looking for an experienced manager for a highly skilled team of scientists and technical specialists. The team delivers research, training, consultancy and specialist advice across a diverse portfolio of topics including; Process Safety, Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH), Computational Fluid Dynamic modelling, High Risk Building Safety, and emerging risks associated with UK Space Launch, Carbon Capture, alternative fuels (ie; Hydrogen and Fusion) and uses of artificial intelligence in risk management.

As a line manager your role will focus on providing pastoral line management support for the team working in collaboration with, and supported by, an established operations manager already in place within the team.

You will have overall responsibility for overseeing performance, attendance, development, and wellbeing of your direct reports. You will need to engage with Project managers, commercial managers, and operational teams to ensure that projects are properly resourced and appropriately scheduled.

Communications Officer – Media

Are you interested in communications and media? If so we have an exciting opportunity for an experienced senior communicator who is looking to make a positive impact in citizens lives to join our award-winning communications team.

The team works across a wide range of areas, from proactive announcements on specific policies, campaigns and prosecutions to reactive work, fielding calls from journalists on our busy news desk.

Key Responsibilities

Reactive media management – dealing with breaking stories, drafting and providing statements and information to journalists, and keeping the organisation updated on news coverage.
Proactive media handling – coming up with creative ways of telling the HSE’s story, drafting press releases, and liaising with journalists.
News management – the ability to quickly spot both potential problems and but also opportunities to insert a government voice positively.
Providing regular media handling advice to officials and colleagues on sensitive, complex and high-profile issues.
Working with other communicators in the HSE on campaigns, digital, stakeholder and internal communications.
Developing and maintaining strong relationships with officials, journalists, stakeholders and colleagues in other departments.
Managing HSE’s media-monitoring account and, evaluating and reporting on media coverage.
Creating content for HSE’s social media accounts.
You would also contribute to the Press Office out-of-hours service.

Mechanical Engineer (Engineering Incident Investigator)

At HSE, we work with one goal in mind – to help keep Britain’s workforce safe and healthy. Our work touches virtually every sector of Great Britain’s industries. Combining specialists from numerous fields, we strive to keep people and their working environments safe.

We are looking for two engineers 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.

You can expect to contribute to a diverse range of projects within the health and safety sector, especially HSE incident investigation support and, also be involved in work for other government departments and industrial clients.

You will be part of a team of mechanical, electrical and gas engineers delivering experimental testing primarily in relation to incident investigations but, you will also collaborate with technical experts across many other disciplines.

You will be expected to attend incident sites across Great Britain at short notice, and some overnight stays will be required.

You will also contribute towards non-incident engineering safety research and testing that contributes to HSE’s strategic priorities.

Trainee Project Manager

Do you have the aptitude to be a great Project Manager?

Are you a dynamic, organised individual with great communication and problem-solving skills? If so are you interested in project management career at HSE.

As a Project Manager in HSE’s Science Division, you will oversee delivery of Science and engineering projects to customer requirements, time and cost.

You will be part of a team of Project Management specialists and will oversee a diverse portfolio of projects, for both commercial clients and HSE whilst collaborating with internal and external stakeholders

Senior Research and Policy Officer – Fire safety

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Research and Policy Officer to join our growing team.

We have an establishing program of work to systematically review fire safety risks. You will assist in developing policy to address fire safety risks. You will have to work with a range of stakeholders within government and in industry including our fire safety expert advisory group, to ensure that any policy developed is based upon sound evidence and communicated effectively.

The successful applicant will manage a number of areas of policy work and will need to work flexibly and often at pace. The post will be within a team of technical specialists and policy generalists responsible for a range of regulations including those for ventilation standards, accessibility, acoustics, structure and for the energy efficiency of buildings. You may be required to work across the technical policy team to deliver other areas of work when demand requires it.