Occupational Hygiene Specialist Inspector

As an occupational hygiene specialist inspector, you will be involved in frontline regulatory work and developing technical policy. You will work as a member of a specialist regulatory team, led by a Principal Specialist Inspector, regulating workplaces to ensure that workplace health risks have been identified, evaluated and eliminated or adequately controlled. Specialist Division provides support to the inspectors in HSE’s Inspection and Investigation Divisions who cover many employment sectors including agriculture, general manufacturing, engineering, waste and recycling, education, health services, utilities and transport, government departments and domestic gas safety.

Frontline regulating is managed regionally in geographically dispersed areas across offices in England, Wales and Scotland. You will provide in-depth technical expertise through planned and reactive support to regulatory inspectors gaining occupational hygiene experience across a wide range of issues and industries, whilst developing skills in intervening in businesses and enforcing the law. You may also be asked to provide independent expert witness input to court, securing justice for sufferers of ill health in the workplace.

Developing operational and technical policy is about influencing and raising standards of control and clarifying legal requirements. You will work with others on projects and initiatives to review and inform health and safety policy, developing guidance and identifying any changes needed to expected standards and published information. You will also work with specialist and non-specialist colleagues helping to influence strategic stakeholders and campaigns.

Central Disclosure Officer

We have an exciting opportunity for a Central Disclosure Officer to join our team and operate in a customer service environment. You will be responsible for logging information requests received by HSE and for making an assessment on the most appropriate disclosure regime including the Data Protection Act (DPA), Freedom of Information Act (FOI), Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) and Civil Procedure Rules. You will also be responsible for providing professional, accurate and consistent responses to customers within statutory deadlines.

The Central Information Disclosure team is part of the Information Governance and Compliance Team within the Health and Safety Executives (HSE) Information Technology and Services Division. The Information Governance and Compliance team have responsibility for managing HSE’s information disclosure service, in addition to several other core functions which includes the Data Protection Officer function, Information Assurance and Security, and the development of an Information Governance framework for HSE.

The role of the Central Disclosure team is to effectively manage a range of information requests from internal and external customers, ensuring that the HSE remains compliant with its statutory obligations under UK information law.

Complaints Officer

An exciting opportunity has arisen to take on a high-profile, diverse and challenging role as a core part of HSE’s dedicated Complaints and Correspondence function. You will have the opportunity to be part of a wide-ranging and autonomous unit that directly interacts with and supports both the Chair and Chief Executive in their strategic and day-to-day capacities.

You will be required to provide high quality, efficient and responsive administrative and organisational, support to the manager of Complaints, and support the Complaints Manager in our 3 tier complaints procedure as well as being the first point of contact for external and internal queries. You will be required to liaise with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring complaints and Chief Executive Official correspondence are handled in an efficient manner, completed within timescale, and documented in the appropriate database adhering to GDPR rules. In doing so you will:

Provide support, advice and guidance to HSE colleagues who are preparing complaint/ CEO correspondence.
Support the Complaints Manager with reviewing the current process and identifying where the service can be approved.
Assist the Complaints Manager in promoting the complaints Process inclusive of but not extensive to: Set up meetings internal and external for the Complaints Manager, provide support on daily basis with Ad-Hoc, presenting presentations to HSE colleagues.
Liaise with cross Government complaints teams and attend the six biannual Cross Government Complaints Forum.
You will support and manage Divisional communication and information systems, including management and oversight of relevant SharePoint sites and CM9.
You will be required to handle sensitive information with care and be alert to potential GDPR issues.

HM Principal Specialist Inspector – Mechanical Engineering

A key operational arm of HSE, the Chemicals, Explosives and Microbiological Hazards Division (CEMHD) regulates the UK’s major hazard industries – companies whose products are essential to our everyday life, but where failures in safety management and risk control can lead to catastrophic harm to workers and the public at large. Employing around 300 professional engineers and scientists across a wide range of disciplines, we are responsible for securing safety across a range of industries including energy production (oil, gas and emerging technologies), chemical/pharmaceutical production and storage, as well as explosive manufacture and installations that work with biological agents.

You will be accountable to CEMHD’s Head of Unit 1 for securing the reduction of risk and improvement in health and safety standards by applying a sound operational regulatory and technical expertise, ensuring the timely delivery of quality work in accordance with current procedures.

The role also requires making a corporate contribution particularly in the development of the wider ME group, the continuous improvement of CEMHD, national strategies and change programmes. You will be expected to represent HSE and maintain and promote HSE’s standing with stakeholders and other external bodies.

This post carries a significant workload and may require frequent travel and overnight stays, also requiring a high level of personal responsibility for discipline leadership and decision making. You will therefore have extensive experience and authoritative knowledge of primary containment and integrity management associated with the onshore chemical, petrochemical and pharmaceutical industry sectors.

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.

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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.

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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.