Specialist Inspector (Human Factors Engineering) Chemicals, Explosives and Microbiological Hazards Division

Within the Chemical Explosives and Microbiological Hazards Division (CEMHD) of HSE, our Human Factors Specialists ensure employers across Great Britain work safely – touching on a whole range of essential industries with thousands of workers. In this role, you can utilise your considerable technical knowledge and practical experience to influence not only individual employers but whole industry sectors.

This role will make the most of your Human Factors knowledge, whether that’s inspecting a workplace or investigating the cause of a fatal incident. Our HF roles are unique and suit those who enjoy variety and a challenge, whilst having the support of the widest range of health and safety experts in Britain.

The core part of your work will be in regulating onshore major hazards industries, such as chemicals, explosives and downstream oil & gas industries. The role will at times also require you to apply your knowledge to a range of other industries such as manufacturing, fairgrounds and quarries.

You will need to apply your experience and knowledge to identify risk and underlying issues on site, (often from first principles) make effective decisions on the adequacy of existing control measures and persuade and influence people at all levels to achieve compliance with the law.

Job description

The role will predominantly involve you undertaking site inspections, as well as assessing the adequacy of safety reports for upper tier COMAH sites. You will also be part of investigation teams seeking out accident and incident root causes, and identifying recommendations to ensure that lessons are learned. Part of your role will require you to act as an expert witness, giving your specialist opinion on human factors aspects of accidents and incidents.

You will be required to contribute to the production and revision of HF guidance and standards for HSE and other industry bodies and will be required to prioritise continuing professional development for yourself and other members of the HF Team.

Specialist Training Programme (STP)

On joining HSE, all new specialist inspectors are required to complete a 2-year Specialist Training Programme (STP). This two-year programme comprises of both in depth legal training and assessments and any further technical training that may be required.

Senior Research Scientist: Building Safety & Risk Management

We are excited to welcome a Senior Research Scientist to work within our Scientific hub in Buxton, working predominantly on research to support the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).

You will deliver high quality research focusing on building safety and risk management, publishing papers and conference presentations in order to improve and broaden our scientific reputation whilst helping to improve the public understanding of building risk management. This is an excellent opportunity for a professional looking for their chance to make their mark on an organisation that affects change.

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Deputy Director Human Resources

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, 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.

Upcoming Priorities

Delivering recruitment remains HR’s number one priority, ensuring we can meet the demands of the organisation whilst continually improving our approach. Supporting this with a structured approach to talent through quality development activity.
Aligning our reward strategies with our business aims to deliver appropriate pay structures and frameworks.
Improving diversity and inclusion as well as reducing bullying, harassment and discrimination is key. We are focused on increasing representation from underrepresented groups 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 in important to us, no more so than in current times.
Continue to invest in raising the skills and professionalism of our corporate HR capability.

Key Responsibilities:

Deliver high quality, cost effective and business focused HR, organisational development, training and Health and Safety services to ensure the HR provision for HSE is fit for purpose, legally compliant, customer centric and aligned to strategic business requirements.
Direct line management responsibility for a number Grade 6 equivalents. The HR Division has approximately 120 HR professionals.
Develop and deliver both strategic and tactical workforce plans to support delivery of business objectives, working closely with directors and Finance colleagues. Ensure talent pools and succession plans are in place, recruitment effectively delivers the numbers and quality of employees required and retention policies ensure key people and talent stay within HSE.
Lead our HR transformation journey, including embedding our new ways of working, and our services and processes.
Lead the delivery of HR people plans and priorities, ensuring policies, processes and management data is in place to creatively and effectively deliver people interventions.
Lead, manage or advise on People Groups and Employee Relations acting as a strong role model and ensuring effective development of the team to continue to deliver a high quality and professional service.

QA Tester

We are excited to welcome a QA Tester to our growing IT Services Division, a successful team that can operate from most offices in the UK with occasional travel to our Bootle HQ.

As a QA Tester, you will support the QA Manager on the definition and management of QA strategies, Approaches and Methodologies, overseeing the delivery of all testing to ensure quality delivery requirements. In addition, you will be supporting your team with MI reporting across a wide remit of functions including Change Projects and Continuous Improvement Projects.

Interested? Follow the link below to find out how you can apply.

Offshore Human Factors Specialist Inspector

We have an exciting opportunity for an Offshore Specialist Human Factors Inspector to join our growing Energy Division on a permanent basis.

You’ll work alongside other specialists to optimise human and organisational performance, influencing the offshore oil and gas industry through application of behavioural science knowledge and techniques. Whether you’re inspecting an offshore installation or contributing to the development of the industry through implementing controls or policy, you will play your part in keeping thousands of people safe. Additionally, you’ll be afforded the opportunity to partake in our prestigious Specialist Training Programme to give you the development required to help you fulfil your potential and understand the legal requirements of the role.

Interested? Follow the link below to find out how you can apply.

Customer Service Concerns Officer

Working in The Customer Service Team, your role will be to assess / Triage health and safety risk, 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 method of follow-up. 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.

We are looking for motivated and talented individuals with the commitment to learn about new areas of work and responsibility, and to build on their skills and knowledge in workplace health and safety management; as well as experience of working in a customer focused environment.

Divisional Support Officer

To provide support to the Director of Transformation and the Divisions Senior Leadership Team (SLT). The post holder will be responsible for supporting SLT activities and will lead on the co-ordination of the divisional wide meetings and working groups. The post holder will also provide resilience and cover for the Directors Executive Assistant.

Supporting and managing Divisional communication and information systems, including management and oversight of relevant SharePoint sites
Supporting a range of administrative, financial and governance processes to support SLT, it’s activities, and the delivery of the OSD business plan
Oversee various Divisional working groups to ensure that all activity is delivered on time, effectively and aligned with Divisional priorities and objectives
Production of comprehensive meeting packs, briefing material and performance packs which may include sensitive information
Arranging meetings, preparing agendas and meeting papers, and booking meeting rooms
Attending and managing meetings, including note/action taking Maintaining a central action and decision database and following-up any actions identified at meetings, ensuring timely updates and communicating to meeting attendees
Supporting recruitment activity, including updating the recruitment system, liaising with Human Resources, ensuring that the process of onboarding new employees into HSE is seamless, whilst ensuring that employees that move CS departments and or leave the organisation are dealt with in timely and organised manner.

Senior Regulatory Scientist – Occupational Hygiene & Exposure Specialist (CRD REACH- Band 3/SSO)

You will be part of a multi-disciplinary team of scientists that is delivering HSE’s objectives as the Agency for UK REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) following the UK’s exit from the EU. 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. At CRD, we work with one goal in mind – to protect human health and the environment from the effects of potentially harmful substances.

To help us meet these challenges, we require a specialist in occupation hygiene or exposure control to join CRD’s REACH team.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a team that is delivering HSE’s objectives in support of the UK REACH regulation. This is part of GB’s independent chemicals regulatory framework, enabling decision-making that best reflects the needs of GB, while maintaining some of the highest standards in the world.

Responsibilities

To understand and apply the relevant regulations and guidance.
To analyse information on occupational and consumer exposure data, and on industrial control mechanisms, against relevant regulations, guidance and models to make robust regulatory decisions.
To use your occupational hygiene and human exposure experience and expertise to prepare critical assessments of the data that can contribute to the assessment of human health risks and regulatory decision making.
To communicate clearly technical information both verbally and in writing, presenting clear summaries, conclusions and decisions.
To possess good organisational skills in managing a varied workload to demanding deadlines.
To show initiative and decisiveness, in making effective decisions, while being open to challenge and involving others.
To build and maintain strong, positive working relationships both within HSE and externally to our organisation.
To contribute to internal peer review and quality assurance processes

Information Governance Manager

As a UK regulator, HSE collects, processes, and produces a huge amount of information relating to our regulatory activities and we have legal obligations as a government department to ensure that we are managing this information in accordance with our statutory obligations and can be both accountable and transparent in our decision making.

An exciting opportunity is available for a Band 4 (HEO) M365 Information Governance Manager within our Information and Technology Services (ITS) team. The post holder will be responsible for managing the governance of HSE’s M365 information estate including architecture, compliance, data discovery, configuration and change, permission management, administration of M365 Groups and building capability across the organisation.

The role will support HSE’s strategic direction for data and information management, providing a centre of expertise and control in HSE and will provide advice and support on all aspects of information management and governance supported by a programme of training and development 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.

Portfolio Management Office Manager

You will play a significant role in supporting the Head of the PMO in implementing a corporate PMO model, whilst supporting HSE to grow its programme and project management maturity.

This is an exciting opportunity for an exceptional candidate to drive HSE’s Transformation agenda and help shape our future. If you are looking for an opportunity to make a tangible difference that will be felt across the entire of Great Britain, please read on.

The PMO Manager will help lead and develop an established Portfolio Management Office (PMO). The role offers the unique opportunity to support HSE in identifying, developing, delivering and evaluating key projects that will help protect people and place across the UK.

In particular, you’ll provide leadership and management across our four pillars of Portfolio Management Practice: portfolio management; governance; assurance and PPM best practice. You will lead a team of portfolio professionals and support the development of a culture of delivering at pace, best practice and continuous improvement.