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 

HSE is establishing the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR) with the intention of keeping high-risk residential buildings safe and to 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.

As a Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) Lead (also known as Building Safety Regulatory Lead) you will lead and manage multiple, concurrent MDTs of regulatory partners and be responsible for the efficient and effective regulatory compliance within the High Risk Building (HRB) functions.

Within High-Risk Building (HRB) Regulation there are two distinct 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 building safety risks in occupied HRBs are being managed.

For both roles you will report to the Operational Delivery Team Leader (Principal Building Safety Regulator) who will oversee multiple leads across a wide geographical area.

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 for 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, collaborative working, supporting and training colleagues & meetings is necessary. This may include the occasional overnight stay.

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

Information Session for all candidates:

We will be holding an information session on Wednesday 29th November from 12:30 – 13:30 pm.

This session is for all candidates and will provide more information on BSR and the role. There will also be advice on the application process. The session will be on a Teams video link. Please Click here to join the meeting 

Please be advised that the above link will not be “live” until 29th November at 12.30pm

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.

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.

The work requires a flexible approach and someone who is ready to take on new challenges and areas of work when needed. You will need to be able to get to grips quickly with new information and to understand not just the technical and legal aspects but the implications for HSE, to demonstrate your analyses are well-informed but also to ensure your findings stand up to scrutiny.
You will need to work quickly and to be able to communicate purpose and direction and someone who enjoys the challenge of achieving objectives through mutually
beneficial relationships with a diverse stakeholder community.

For more information please visit our website: Building Safety Regulator – HSE (bsr-careers.co.uk)

This vacancy is for an engineer or scientist 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 will be part of a team of mechanical, electrical and gas engineers delivering experimental testing in relation to incident investigations but you will also collaborate with technical experts across many other disciplines.

You will also specifically be involved in pressure-related activities such as incidents, research and testing (including measurement of key test parameters), training, and internal statutory compliance – acting as support to the current technical lead in this topic area.

This will include visiting incident sites, collecting evidence, designing and building test rigs, carrying out physical tests, analysing the test data and writing any necessary technical reports. This will involve working with, or for, other engineering colleagues.

Your technical responsibilities will include:

• Supporting incident investigations, including fatalities, working with other agencies such as the Police and attending incident sites as appropriate. This will involve travel and overnight stays away from home.
• Supporting the delivery of pressure-related activities such as training, internal statutory compliance, and acting as support to the current technical lead in this topic area.
• Supporting the development and delivery of research and testing work by assisting towards the development of work proposals and presentation of technical solutions to both technical and non-technical staff inside and outside HSE.
• Writing or contributing to technical reports in relation to incident, research or testing.
• Producing expert witness statements, and presenting expert evidence in court.