Diving Technical Specialist

We have an exciting position for a Band 3/SEO Diving Technical Specialist which will appeal to individuals with a practical, technical background in the diving industry.

You will be required to deliver work to support diving investigations and liaising with HSE specialist diving inspectors. This will include performing visual inspections of diving plant/equipment and conducting objective testing on breathing gases, and diving equipment such as regulators and hats/full face masks. There will be a requirement to provide proactive assistance with testing of diving plant against national/internal standards, as required.

You will be expected to work with others in HSE’s Energy Division and the wider HSE. You will be self-motivated and strive for quality outcomes. You will need to, under challenge, think strategically and engage at different levels with technical, regulatory and policy colleagues within the organisation. This role requires stakeholder engagement with external agencies and collaborative working. You will work with others to ensure the timely delivery of HSE’s investigation, research and commercial work. You will be expected to work with and assist colleagues not only across the Health Group but also across HSE as part of their programmes of work.

Occupational Health Specialist Inspector (FOD Band 3/SEO)

Your work as a regulator will make the most of your experience in occupational health – identifying risks, providing the right advice and crucially – taking steps to ensure the employer takes the necessary action. You could be inspecting the management of health risks in an engineering firm, investigating a report of occupational disease in a bakery, taking enforcement action when required. Your work will take you across the range of industries from construction, manufacturing and engineering, to agriculture, waste and recycling or the public sector.

This role will broaden your knowledge and your professional credibility like no other role can and you will be fully supported by your colleagues including the widest range of health and safety experts in Britain.

Together, you’ll be helping to protect thousands of people, whether that be from our offices or out on site.

Further information about the role can be found in the attached candidate pack.

You will be office-based but as part of your role, you will be required to inspect and visit sites across Great Britain. This will require regular travel and overnight stays.

Key Responsibilities
• Leading and/or supporting investigation of work related ill-health concerns and reportable diseases to identify the cause and where necessary, take appropriate enforcement action to control the risks
• Inspecting a variety of workplaces, either on your own or supporting another inspector to make sure health risks are managed safely, driving improvements and taking enforcement action where required to secure compliance with the law
• Advising other HSE colleagues about OH and how conditions compare with minimum legal requirements and good practice
• Providing specialist support to guide enforcement decisions and specialist opinion in reports
• Contributing to policy work and guidance in relevant priority areas by sharing information and advice with policy colleagues
• Contributing as a member of the occupational health team to promote occupational health at relevant UK forums as well internally, for example, coaching trainee H&S inspectors, and
• You will be expected to appear as specialist / expert witness at tribunals, inquests and legal proceedings.

Higher Mechanical Engineer

We are excited to welcome Higher Mechanical Engineer to our our growing Science Division based in Buxton.

You will apply your knowledge and experience of mechanical engineering to delivery of incident research work, presenting technical reports and visiting incident sites to compile crucial data.

Interested? To learn more, follow the link below to find out how you can apply.

Business Architect

HSE’s Information and Technology Services Division includes an Enterprise Architecture (EA) Team. This team is primarily responsible for the development of an Enterprise Architecture (including Business, Data, Applications and Technology domains), defining and executing technology strategy, and also for directing and assuring the delivery of new IT Solutions. This Business Architect role is to lead on the Business Architecture domain within EA and manage a small team of Business Analysts.

You will have a key role in helping HSE deliver on its new Business Strategy, by translating the Business Strategy in to target Business Architecture(s). This will include developing and managing HSE’s Business Reference Model (BRM) and Common Business Process patterns.

This is a very exciting time to join HSE. A series of new change programmes are now mobilised to deliver new Digital IT solutions that will replace legacy systems and improve processes. Each programme supports a specific operational area within HSE, but there will be commonality across the solution building blocks that require designing and integrating. There will be a blend of internal and 3rd party resources to deliver these programmes.

Case Officer – Building Safety Regulator – High Risk Building Regulation

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is establishing the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR) with the intention of keeping Higher Risk Buildings (HRBs) safe and enable people to feel safe in their homes. Working with residents and industry to make sure everybody has a voice, BSR will oversee changes to the safety and performance of all buildings and raise industry professional standards year on year. BSR will serve as a lasting tribute to those who have lost their lives due to poor and substandard buildings and will help ensure tragedies of such proportions as Grenfell are consigned to the past.

Over the coming years, as the powers of BSR increase, we will continue to build our team, creating opportunities for both technical specialists and non-specialists to join us.

Your role is vitally important to the effectiveness of the BSR in ensuring the safety of residents in communities by managing cases effectively through coordination of internal and external partners and ensuring all stages within the process are followed. You will support Multi Disciplinary Team (MDT) Leads within the High Risk Building (HRB) functions: Building Control and In-Occupation.

The Building Control function is about ensuring HRBs are designed and built to approved standards.

The In-Occupation function includes delivery of the Building Assessment Certificate (BAC) applications to ensure occupied HRBs are being managed to protect residents safety.

As part of the Operational Delivery Team, you will work with MDT leads to bring together and support our regulatory partners including building, structural, and fire safety specialists to ensure cases are progressed efficiently and effectively.This will include assisting at site visits, interacting with those responsible for the HRBs and their residents to collect relevant material to support regulatory decision making.

This is an exciting time to join BSR, and as a part of this team you will be responsible for helping to shape a new culture of building safety in your community today and for the future. In return we can offer you training tailored to your needs as well as civil service learning and development programmes to support your career in HSE and the wider Civil Service. This role will develop as the BSR grows and therefore flexibility to move within the role is expected.

This role will also include some travel therefore flexibility to travel when needed for on site visits is necessary. This may include the occasional overnight stay. 

This post can be based in any of the advertised locations, for details of HSE locations please see here 

Operational Quality, Risk and Compliance Lead

BSR will serve as a lasting tribute to those who have lost their lives due to poor and substandard buildings and will help ensure tragedies of such proportions as Grenfell are consigned to the past.

Over the coming years, as the powers of BSR increase, we will continue to build our team, creating opportunities for both technical specialists and non-specialists to join us.

This role will be at the heart of the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR), leading on the creation and implementation of the operational quality management, assurance, governance and risk management frameworks.

You will report directly to the Head of Operational Excellence and be instrumental in establishing the Risk Management and Quality Management Frameworks alongside BSR’s policy and operational leaders.

Your direct reports will consist of a team of Risk Management Analysts and Compliance and Quality Analysts.

The overarching Governance framework and how it is managed would also fall within the remit of this position.  You will have access to a range of development opportunities including career pathways, developing others through coaching and mentoring other members of the team, as well as Civil Service learning and development programmes.

This is an exciting time to join BSR, and as a part of this team you will be responsible for shaping an internal culture of high performance and continuous improvement and bringing about cultural change in building safety in your community today and in the future.

This role will also involve travel to sites across England therefore flexibility to be able to travel when needed for on-site visits & meetings is necessary. This may include the occasional overnight stay. 

This post can be based in any of the advertised locations, for details of HSE locations please see here 

Data MI & Reporting Analyst

BSR will serve as a lasting tribute to those who have lost their lives due to poor and substandard buildings and will help ensure tragedies of such proportions as Grenfell are consigned to the past.

Over the coming years, as the powers of BSR increase, we will continue to build our team, creating opportunities for both technical specialists and non-specialists to join us.

This role will sit at the heart of the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR), providing operational insight and performance management through analysis, synthesis, review and reporting of data across multiple operational work streams. This includes qualitative and quantitative analysis and management of current and future demand profiles and resource forecasts in addition to the creation of Management Information reporting for internal and external stakeholders.

You will report to the Operational Performance Management Lead and support the creation and embedding of an operational performance management framework across multiple operations in BSR.

You will also collaborate across operational and policy teams in order to improve the delivery and consistency of operational performance reporting.

This is a new role and you will be expected to proactively contribute towards establishing the operational performance management framework, as well as setting up new processes and ways of working for BSR. From year three it is anticipated that the framework will be fully established and embedded and therefore the your focus will be more heavily based within analysis and recommendations.

This is an exciting time to join BSR, and as a part of this team you will be responsible for shaping an internal culture of high performance and continuous improvement and bringing about cultural change in building safety in your community today and in the future.

This role will also involve travel to sites across England therefore flexibility to be able to travel when needed for on-site visits & meetings is necessary. This may include the occasional overnight stay. 

This post can be based in any of the advertised locations, for details of HSE locations please see here 

Data Analyst

HSE is establishing a new Building Safety Regulator (BSR). The development and implementation of the legislative framework and operational arrangements to create the BSR offer a unique opportunity to contribute to, and experience working in, an exciting and high-profile area of Government policy that aims to ensure that people living in high-risk buildings are both safe and feel safe.

BSR will serve as a lasting tribute to those who have lost their lives due to poor and substandard buildings and will help ensure tragedies of such proportions as Grenfell are consigned to the past. Over the coming years, as the powers of BSR increase, we will continue to build our team ensuring that high-rise buildings are safer than ever.

The Data Analyst role will sit within the Operational Excellence team and will play a critical role in supporting BSR operations in delivering the desired impacts and achieving the highest possible standards of quality and performance.

Operational Excellence will play a key role in embedding a high-performance culture aimed at ensuring operational goals are met and cost recovery is tracked and managed.

The team will support operational leaders in the identification and management of risk and ensure that barriers to delivery are quickly and effectively removed.

This is an exciting time to join BSR, and as a part of this team you will be responsible for shaping an internal culture of high performance and continuous improvement and bringing about cultural change in building safety in your community today and in the future.

This role will also involve regular travel to other HSE offices therefore flexibility to be able to travel when needed for on-site visits & meetings is necessary. This may include the occasional overnight stay.

This post can be based in any of the advertised locations, for details of HSE locations please see here

Resource Modeller

BSR will serve as a lasting tribute to those who have lost their lives due to poor and substandard buildings and will help ensure tragedies of such proportions as Grenfell are consigned to the past. Over the coming years, as the powers of BSR increase, we will continue to build our team, creating opportunities for both technical specialists and non-specialists to join us.

This is an exciting time to join BSR, and as a part of this team you will be responsible for shaping an internal culture of high performance and continuous improvement and bringing about cultural change in building safety in your community today and in the future.

This role will sit at the heart of the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR), providing operational insight through resource planning, forecasting and assumption testing for the multiple operational workstreams. This includes both quantitative and qualitative analysis of resource needs and anticipation of future resource demands.

You will report to the Operational Performance Management Lead and will support the creation of a large-scale resource plan and the creation of a resource allocation process which encourages reviews and assumption testing.

You will also collaborate across operational and policy teams in order to ensure that the teams are adequately resourced ahead of any policy changes or peak regulatory time periods. This role is key for ensuring the consistency of the BSRs operational performance by regularly reviewing and revising where resource is focused.

This is a new role and, during years 1 and 2, you will be expected to proactively contribute towards establishing the operational performance workstream. You will be proactive in supporting the operational teams to have the necessary resource to uphold their regulatory duties.

From year 3 it is anticipated that the framework will be fully established and embedded and therefore your focus will be more heavily based within validation, review and improvements to the resourcing approach.

This role will also involve travel to sites across England therefore flexibility to be able to travel when needed for on-site visits & meetings is necessary. This may include the occasional overnight stay. 

This post can be based in any of the advertised locations, for details of HSE locations please see here 

Case Officer Manager

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is establishing the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR) with the intention of keeping Higher Risk Buildings (HRBs) safe and enable people to feel safe in their homes. Working with residents and industry to make sure everybody has a voice, BSR will oversee changes to the safety and performance of all buildings and raise industry professional standards year on year. BSR will serve as a lasting tribute to those who have lost their lives due to poor and substandard buildings and will help ensure tragedies of such proportions as Grenfell are consigned to the past.

Over the coming years, as the powers of BSR increase, we will continue to build our team, creating opportunities for both technical specialists and non-specialists to join us.

This role is vitally important to the effectiveness of the BSR in ensuring the safety of residents in communities. You will manage, and develop your team of the operational support case officers across the higher risk building (HRB) regime to  deliver  effective and timely support service to the multi-disciplinary teams within the HRB functions: Building control and in Occupation.

The Building Control function is about ensuring HRB’s are designed and built to approved standards. The In Occupation function includes delivery of the Building Assessment Certificate (BAC) applications that ensures occupied HRB are being managed to protect residents safety.

As BSR is a new organisation our processes are still embedding. You will be alert to when things are not being delivered as expected, responding promptly  identify risks and resolve issues efficiently, working with others to implement changes and drive continuous improvement and consistency in  delivery standards.

You will build effective working relationships, to support multi-disciplinary team (MDT) operations, manage and deploy resources efficiently within and across regions and monitor all aspects of operational performance and delivery within your team of approximately 15 case officers. You will be responsible for the pastoral care management of staff members but will share performance and quality with MDT Leads who lead on cases.

This is an exciting time to join BSR, and as a part of this team you will be responsible for shaping an internal culture of high performance and continuous improvement and bringing about cultural change in building safety in your community today and in the future. In return we can offer you training tailored to your needs as well as civil service learning and development programmes to support your career in HSE and the wider Civil Service. This role will develop as the BSR grows and therefore flexibility to move within the role is expected.

This post can be based in any of the advertised locations, for details of HSE locations please see here