Specialist Risk Assessor (CEMHD Band 2/Grade 7)

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has statutory responsibilities in the regulation of onshore major hazards, some of which are delivered by the Major Hazards Risk Assessment Unit, within our Chemical Explosives and Microbiological Hazards Division (CEMHD). The Unit’s responsibilities include:

• Contributing to the regulation of onshore major hazard sites, with a focus on assessing major hazard risks;
• Working with other parts of Government, including in Scotland and Wales, to deliver statutory advice on development around existing major hazard installations and major accident hazard pipelines to local authorities, duty holders, developers and the public at large; and
• Providing statutory advice on plans to develop new businesses holding significant quantities of flammable or toxic substances.

Maintaining public safety assurance in the land use planning system in relation to major hazards is central to the activities of the unit. Our advice helps to prevent major accidents, and if they were to occur to mitigate the consequences. The Unit undertakes these statutory activities on over 3000 major hazard onshore installations (including pipelines) under the following provisions:

• Hazardous Substances Consents (HSC) Regulations 2015, which relate to considering whether the presence of a significant quantity of hazardous substance is acceptable in a given location;
• Control of Major Accident Hazard Regulations 2015 (COMAH); and
• The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015, which covers development control around major hazard sites.

Digital Marketing and Website Performance Analyst

As a Digital Marketing and Website Performance Analyst, you will be responsible for making the best use of data, tools, analytical techniques and industry best practice to deliver analysis of the very highest quality for HSE’s web services and digital platforms, to meet the digital service standard.

The purpose of this role is to provide the best quality data and analytics to help with content design and to optimise the performance of our website and related digital services.

You will deliver and develop HSE’s digital content and communications channels – such as www.hse.gov.uk and the ebulletin email service – with evidence and insight into user needs. You will interpret and implement analytics data to ensure quality and accessibility standards are met, and continually deliver growth and improvements to the user experience for each digital channel.

HM Specialist Inspector – Process Safety

As a Specialist Inspector of Process Safety, you will be an essential part of the work that CEMHD do. You will use your technical knowledge and expertise to regulate major hazard industries and to influence whole sectors to improve health and safety standards, thereby helping to prevent catastrophic accidents.

Our Specialist Inspectors of Process Safety help to ensure employers across Great Britain – a whole range of essential industries – work safely. In this role, you can utilise your considerable technical knowledge and practical experience to influence not only individual employers but whole industry sectors.

Administrative Officer – Energy Division

The main function of the Administration Officer role is to support the work of HSE Inspectors in frontline operational delivery. In HSE our purpose is to prevent work-related death, injury and ill-health. We apply a range of regulatory tools to improve-health and safety, bringing together different interventions to achieve that impact. We influence and engage stakeholders, create knowledge and awareness of health and safety risks, and encourage behavioural change through assessments and direct interventions including inspections and investigations.

In this role you will contribute to the important work HSE & Energy Division does. You will work closely with your colleagues to deliver the key responsibilities of the post. You will be flexible and able to respond to changing work priorities at pace, which will allow you to develop your skills and knowledge. In all that you do you will be, proactive, innovative and focused on delivering HSE’s business, as well as able to plan and prioritise your work. You will be required to provide support on both a local and national basis according to business need.

Administrative Officer – Energy Division

Principal Occupational Hygiene Specialist Inspector

Principal Occupational Hygiene Specialist Inspectors are responsible for planning and delivering projects developing standards and policy, intervention campaigns and support to others aimed at improving controls and changing behaviours in the workplace. At any time, you could be asked to lead a team of occupational hygienists, or to lead a mixed project team or to undertake personal performance work whilst collaborating closely with stakeholders.

Whether leading a team or making personal contributions, they apply their expertise and specialist regulatory opinion in a wide variety of circumstances to enforce risk control, helping others apply technical standards to difficult situations and contributing to more complex investigations as experts. Demonstrating sound judgment through decisive, timely and proportionate decision-making about standards and risk reduction is key, across a range of industry sectors.

Leading technical developments involves both commissioning research and driving actions to secure application of expected standards. Strong networks are essential for identifying emerging issues, gaps in control, and priorities for action and developments. Promoting continuous improvement and the standards expected with other government departments, stakeholders and intermediaries is essential.

Product Safety Intelligence Co-ordinator

We are looking for someone with a good understanding of HSE record and intelligence management systems, data analysis and a range of presentational methods. You will need to be able to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of the Product Safety framework, including reporting requirements.

You will be part of a team that works together to respond to new challenges, as the Product Safety and Market Surveillance Unit manages a number of workstreams including concerns and queries from a number of sources, develops internal procedures, continues to grow intelligence capability to underpin future interventions and cross-government working.

This post provides a coordinating role relating to intelligence management within the unit.

Trainee Inspector of Health and Safety

The Health and Safety Executive are recruiting multiple Trainee Inspector of Health and Safety. As an Inspector you will be involved in a range of activities, notably inspections and investigations. Where appropriate, you will use various legal processes such as enforcement notices and prosecutions to secure health and safety compliance.

Inspections involve proactively assessing the ability of employers to effectively manage risks to their employees and others (such as contractors or members of the public). Investigations cover accidents, dangerous occurrences, ill health and concerns about workplace conditions and your role will be to uncover what has happened and why. You will have to be prepared to tell people that there is a breach of the law (you will be given lots of training to help you identify and understand this), what action needs to be taken as a result and ensure that this action is taken.

You will have the opportunity to work off site or outdoors at workplaces spread across the region surrounding your base office; occasionally outside of normal working hours.

Not everyone will appreciate what you will be trying to achieve, and sometimes it might be a struggle to change attitudes and convince others about what is required. Very occasionally you may encounter some hostility to your visit. Your training and the support you receive from us will give you the confidence to deal with a wide range of duty holders and difficult situations.

The investigation of fatalities and serious accidents may mean visiting places where there is evidence of what has happened and, in some rare instances, the deceased person may still be on site. You will work with other agencies such as the Police in such circumstances, as well as pulling from the valuable experience and expertise of colleagues and managers. At times, you may need to speak with the bereaved families and witnesses. You will need to be able to do this in a professional, but empathetic manner, communicating effectively with people at every level in an organisation and in the public arena.

For more information on this role, please follow the link below to the full job description and candidate pack.

Senior Management Accountant

We are looking to recruit a Senior Management Accountant within our Planning, Finance and Procurement Division (PFPD).

At PFPD, our core activities are critical to the effective and efficient way that HSE delivers its objectives. We are the custodian of the system of internal control and ensure effective governance processes are in place. At the same time, we drive the planning processes to ensure we can deliver our regulatory activity with an agreed financial budget and ensure appropriate mechanisms to monitor and analyse performance against these targets.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role within PFPD’s Finance function. You will work within Central Finance, leading a small team supporting HSE’s budgeting, forecasting and other financial processes, providing advice to both senior colleagues and Finance Business Partners. This role provides an excellent opportunity for development, that could lead to progression within PFPD/HSE or the wider Government Finance Community.

Person specification

You will have excellent communication, analytical and decision-making skills which allow you to operate effectively with stakeholders.

Experience of operating in a dynamic environment working to tight deadlines.

Advanced skills in the use of primarily Excel or other Financial Modelling/Analysis products.

Coaching and leadership skills to allow you to effectively manage your team and help us to deliver a high-quality finance function.

Motivated to develop your experience and career which we can support through exposure to the broad variety of finance matters that we encounter in HSE.

If you would like more information on the role, please follow the link below.

DevOps Engineer

We are a learning team, and everyone is encouraged to undertake training, development and courses that will keep them and the team current and excited by new opportunities. The team works well because everyone’s contributions and ideas are listened to and valued, and we can only grow and improve if there is an enthusiasm to explore our disciplines and try new ways of working.

We have an opportunity to recruit a DevOps Engineer to join the ITS Division. To deliver Development Operations (DevOps) Engineering for all HSE cloud-infrastructure services ensuring that all technologies (cloud-network, cloud-hosting (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), cloud-storage and cloud-security) remain available, performant to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and relevant to business requirements. Deliver the DevOps Engineering support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE, and support the implementation of continuous improvement (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) for services once live. Operate and deliver the processes, architectures, and services that will deliver all of HSE digital and technology services. Ensure that new cloud-based technologies are secure by design and remain secure during operations, protecting HSE’s data and users from cyber-attack and unauthorised loss. This role will engage with users, supporting their needs and ensuring that a high-quality customer-focused service is delivered.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will thrive and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on one or many projects. You will be supporting existing cloud-based services, assisting in the design, and delivery of new cloud-based services as we expand HSE’s digital services in Azure, adhering to GDS principles and using Agile principles.