Senior Regulatory Chemist

This is an exciting time to join Chemical Regulations Division (CRD) with opportunities to develop and shape our regulatory schemes for the future. Our primary role is to deliver regulatory schemes intended to protect the health of people and the environment, balancing the economic and social benefits that chemicals offer to society and helping to ensure the safe and sustainable use of chemicals. We also have a role through guidance, partnership working and leadership to raise awareness and promote behaviour change to help improve the control of hazardous substances in the workplace.

In this role you will focus on the evaluation of data on the physical and chemical properties, the analytical methods and residues of pesticides and biocides active substances and products. This will include the assessment of data in order to carry out consumer dietary exposure assessments and set MRLs (Maximum Residue Levels).

As a Senior Regulatory Chemist, you will manage, mentor and support members of the team, provide peer review of work, lead on specific technical aspects, 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.

You will also have opportunities to provide training at external commercial events organised by CRD.

Administrative Support – Pesticides Operational Support Team

We currently have two vacancies within our Pesticide Operational Support Team.

You could be working in a team supporting scientists with their work or responding to requests from stakeholders on their applications.

These posts give you the opportunity to support scientific staff on progressing the authorisation of applications for the approval of pesticides or industrial chemicals and managing the delivery of approval/authorisation of pesticide active substances and products.

We also have teams involved in the evaluation of data submitted in support of applications for approval of pesticides in the UK.

As an Administrative Support Officer your responsibilities will include:

• You will be responsible for the receipt of applications, authorisation processing and issuing invoices.
• You will assist in maintaining quality in authorisation, amendment and withdrawal notices issued following applications from the pesticides industry decisions.
• You will be the administrator of internal CRD databases.
• You will support CRDs records and data management functions, including carrying out records reviews.
• You will respond to telephone and written enquiries, requests for advice from colleagues in CRD, members of public and other organisations.
• You will be involved in general administrative duties and other work as directed by the team leader.

Assistant Economist

We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Economist to join our growing team.

The Economic and Social Analysis Team provides leadership and quality service in social research/ economics to help HSE protect people and places. We provide high-quality, evidence-based advice covering the full breadth of HSE’s remit, producing analysis and research used across UK Government, industry, academia, international bodies e.g. OECD and EU.

HSE economists provide advice and analysis on the development of HSE strategy/ policy in tackling serious occupational injury; work-related ill health including cancer and mental health; and serious industrial accidents.

As part of a specialised team, currently comprising seven Economists and eight Social Researchers, Assistant Economists (AEs) have many opportunities to take on responsibility and develop their skills. The Economic and Social Analysis Team provides advice across the scope of HSE’s remit – from offshore oil and gas exploration to genetically modified organisms – and this offers great variety to AEs that will help form a solid basis for a career as a government economist.

Senior Business Relationship Manager

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled and professional Senior Business Relationship Manager to join our 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.

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.

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.