Mechanical Engineer/Scientist (Engineering Incident Investigator)

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 can expect to contribute to a diverse range of projects within the health and safety sector, especially HSE incident investigation support, and also be involved in work for other government departments and industrial clients.

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.

Knowledge & Information Management Officer

As a UK regulator, HSE collects, processes, and produces a huge amount of information relating to our regulatory activities and we have legal obligations as a government department to ensure that we are managing this information in accordance with our statutory obligations and can be both accountable and transparent in our decision making. HSE’s Bootle-based Information Management Team (IMT), is responsible for providing advice and guidance on the effective management of information across the organisation.

As part of the Information Management Team, the post holders will provide day-to-day support to HSE on all aspects of information management, promoting best practice, delivering a number of specialist services and making the best use of new technologies and responding to the changing needs of the organisation.

Experience of knowledge and information management is not essential as training and development will be provided.

HM Specialist Inspector – Major Hazards Risk Assessment

We have an exciting opportunity for a HM Specialist Inspector to join our team.

The Major Hazards Risk Assessment Unit (MHRAU) within CEMHD is responsible for contributing to the regulation of onshore major hazard sites, with a focus on assessing major hazard risks. Working with other parts of Government, including Scotland and Wales, we 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. MHRAU also provides 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:

Control of Major Accident Hazard Regulations 2015 (COMAH).
The Planning (Hazardous Substances) Regulations 2015 (Hazardous Substance Consent, HSC).
The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015.
The Pipelines Safety Regulations 1996.

Job description

From day one, you will be supported by your manager and colleagues to understand your role in HSE, in addition to supporting your continuing professional development. As this is a Specialist Inspector role you will undergo a Specialist Training Programme (STP). This is a two-year training programme which includes in depth legal training and assessment on occupational health and safety during your probationary period. You will be required to complete and pass the full programme. There will also be further technical training relating to regulation of major hazards.

Your role will include:

Evaluating the technical risk to people associated with onshore major hazard installations.
Providing advice on the risks arising from onshore major hazard installations and pipelines to a range of stakeholders, including industry, local planning authorities and other government departments;
Represent HSE at LUP appeals and inquiries and at technical gatherings of fellow professionals and other stakeholders;
Maintain technical policy topics, related methodologies, hazard assessment or quantified risk assessment tools, and supporting guidance;
Commission science and oversee its delivery.

Electrical and Control Engineer Specialist (FOD Band3/SEO)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Electrical and Control Engineer Specialist (FOD Band3/SEO) to join our team.

This is a frontline specialist engineering post. 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.

We are looking for high calibre engineers who can, under challenge, think strategically, identify underlying core issues, and engage at different levels both with colleagues, site technical staff and at the most senior levels within an organisation. You will be able to influence those organisations to bring about improvements and be decisive and clear about what is needed.

Central Disclosure Officer

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.

As a Central Disclosure Officer, you will operate in a customer service environment and 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 be responsible for providing professional, accurate and consistent responses to customers within statutory deadlines.

Operational Quality, Risk and Compliance Officer

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

This role will sit at the heart of the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR), and support the creation and implementation of the divisional, sub-divisional and operational quality assurance, governance and risk management framework. You will report to the Operational Quality, Risk & Compliance Lead and will support the establishment and implementation of Risk Management (RMF) and Quality Management Frameworks (QMF) alongside BSR’s policy and operational leaders.

This is a new role and during years one and two, the post holder will be expected to proactively contribute towards establishing the Quality Management and Risk Management Frameworks as well as setting up new processes and new ways of working for BSR. From year three, it is anticipated that the QMF and RMF will be fully established and embedded and therefore, the postholders 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 helping to shape a new culture of building safety in your community today and for the future.

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

Operational Quality, Risk & 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 ensuring that high-rise buildings are safer than ever. For more information please visit our website: Building Safety Regulator – HSE (bsr-careers.co.uk)

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.

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.

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

Data, MI and 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 ensuring that high-rise buildings are safer than ever. To find out more please visit our website: Building Safety Regulator – HSE (bsr-careers.co.uk)

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 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 today and for the future.

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

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.

Building Engineer

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

As a building engineer you will work on the development of technical policy relating to Building Regulations and building standards. You will have a broad base of relevant building engineering and construction experience and willing to work flexibly in relation to more than one area of technical expertise.

This post requires a good understanding of technical matters but also capacity to work within the broader policy and political context of Government. You will work closely with other government departments and provide technical advice to support development of new policy which is both deliverable and technically sound. You will be a good communicator, able to present technical issues clearly and succinctly and be able to represent the BSR with other departments, industry and standards making bodies.

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.

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

Structural Engineer

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

We are looking for a Structural Engineer to work on development of technical policy relating to Building Regulations and building standards. You will have a broad base of relevant structural safety knowledge and structural engineering experience and willing to work flexibly.

You must have a good understanding of technical matters but also capacity to work within the broader policy and political context of Government. You will work closely with other Government departments and provide technical advice to support development of new policy which is both deliverable and technically sound. You will present technical issues clearly and succinctly representing the BSR with other departments, industry and standards making bodies.

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.

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