Secretariat Support

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is establishing the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR) with the intention of keeping high-rise buildings safe and enabling people to feel safe within 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.

You will have the opportunity to be involved in developing processes and approaches as the new regulator becomes operational. In addition to supporting the committee secretariat, you will be occasionally working alongside a variety of professions and supporting engagement work with influential forums both internally and externally. You will work well as part of a team, building an understanding of overall objectives and priorities to enable you to co-ordinate your work effectively with others, identifying common interests and opportunities for collaboration.

Radiation Consents and Registrations Manager (FOD Band 5/EO)

The Radiation Consents Manager role is based in Field Operations Division, which is the largest operational division within HSE. You will join a small Radiation Operational Support team working in the larger operational support community.

The Consents Manager role is to contribute to the delivery of HSE’s strategy and FOD’s plan of work by playing a key role in the development, testing and implementation of a new process for radiation registrations and consent requests. The consents manager will work alongside in-house IT to develop an existing database which will be utilised by duty holders, operational support teams and regulatory colleagues. They will develop new procedures and analysis tools alongside the SAM and SRO for the project enabling a smooth transition into the process. They work together with operational support, visiting staff and regulatory colleagues to help ensure consistency of process and delivery. They provide provision of management information and undertake data quality assurance.

At HSE, we are proud to be able to offer our people the opportunity to work in a hybrid way which combines working from home and the office. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your allocated office will be your contractual place of work. There will be a requirement to travel to the office for various activities e.g., collaborative working, supporting and training colleagues.

If hybrid working is suitable for you and your role, the arrangements will be determined primarily by business need, but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. Therefore, we would encourage candidates to consider if the commute from home to the office is a feasible distance to travel before making an application. Please note that if you are successful, hybrid working will be discussed prior to taking up the post.

Due to the project being developed within Bootle, you will be required to work within this office primarily, there may be occasions where you need to travel to other offices and potential for overnight stays.

If this position is of interest to you and you would like further information please click the link below for the full job description and link to apply.

Senior Database Administrator (Senior Data Engineer)

Technology, data, and digital services underpins everything that HSE does. We are a knowledge organisation, with a wealth of experience in keeping people safe. It is the responsibility of the Information, Technology and Facilities Division to ensure that everyone in the organisation can access our data and information, to share it and to use it to make effective decisions. We support over 3000 colleagues working in a hybrid style at home and in 26 offices across Great Britain. Our services keep inspectors functioning effectively and efficiently on industrial sites nationwide, from oil platforms in the North Sea to our deepest mines and quarries.

We strive to constantly improve the technologies and services supporting the organisation. Our end user computing devices are leading edge, and we are making significant progress in delivering new cloud-based services. Our service management and information management services are very highly regarded within the organisation and pride themselves on excellent customer service. Our commercial team has built strong relationships with suppliers and our project management team is embedded in our corporate change programme, transforming the older legacy systems that have underpinned the organisation for a long time.

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.

You will manage the HSE’s data estate, ensuring that data remains confidential, integral, available (CIA), and relevant to business requirements. Monitoring all data flows and the use/re-use of data across the organisation to ensure that systems, business analytics and business intelligence are appropriately supported.

You will ensure databases remain secure, preventing unauthorised access, data exchange and data loss, and seek to improve all current system databases. Resolving database issues before they impact the user/customer, identifying root causes, developing work arounds and fixes in priority order to ensure databases and applications remain operational, at N or N-1 states, and performant to SLAs/OLAs, implementing upgrades and patches to databases, coordinating change activity, engaging with users, and ensuring that upgrades are understood and appropriate. You will document all databases, data interfaces and data flow diagrams, maintaining the accuracy of documentation to reflect changes and fixes, ensuring data quality is high.

This role will engage with users, supporting their needs and ensuring that a high-quality customer focused service is delivered.

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Senior Application Operations Engineer (MS365)

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 a enthusiasm to explore our disciplines and try new ways of working.

You will be responsible for managing HSE’s Microsoft 365 product suite, ensuring that products remain available, performant to SLAs/OLAs and relevant to business requirements. You will monitor all products in the suite, investigate incidents, resolve problems, and develop and apply fixes and changes. You will develop new functionality and seek to continuously improve the products to support the organisation in better ways whilst ensuring that the applications and data remain secure. You will engage with users, support their needs, and ensure that a high-quality customer-focused service is delivered.

If this position is something that is of interest to you, please see the full job description for further details and how to apply.

Mechanical Engineer – Specialist Inspector of Health and Safety (CEMHD Band 3/ SEO)

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.

From the outset you will be supported by your manager and colleagues to understand your role in HSE, develop your skills and support you in your continuing professional development. For the legal requirements of the role, you will be enrolled on our Specialist Training Programme (STP) which you will be required to study for and successfully complete, including a final assessment. You will be required to spend periods of time away from home, visiting sites and other offices overnight, which your working pattern will accommodate.

If you have degree or equivalent qualification in Mechanical Engineering or a closely related subject and are a member of Membership of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (or similar), Chartered status and registration with the Engineering Council and feel like this role is for you, please read the job description for further information.

Training Administrator (Maternity Cover)

An exciting opportunity has arisen to provide maternity leave cover as a Training Administrator in our Customer Solutions Group. You will be based in HSE’s Science and Research Centre in Buxton, Derbyshire – a world leading provider of health and safety solutions to industry and government.

Person specification

You will contribute to the support and organisation of face-to-face and live online training courses under the supervision and support of colleagues. You will undertake activities including those described below, while being flexible and undertaking other duties as needed or requested:

• Deliver a high level of customer service to internal and external customers
• Process customer bookings and enquiries by telephone, email and face to face
• Input and maintain training database and website
• Oversight and facilitation of assigned training courses (both face-to-face and live online)
• Logistical and administration support for training
• Attendance at off-site and industry events to promote HSE training.

Essential Skills and Criteria

• The ability to work at pace, both individually and as part of a team
• Effective organisational skills and the ability to work to tight deadlines
• Good communication and IT skills
• Attention to detail
• A desire to learn and work collaboratively across different teams
• Experience of working in a customer-focused environment

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Regulatory Liaison Officer

With a world-class reputation for safeguarding the health and safety of people at work, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is adapting and evolving to meet the new challenges ahead. At the Chemicals Regulation Division (CRD) we work with one goal in mind – to protect human health and the environment from the effects of potentially harmful substances.

The Pesticide’s Operational Support Team works closely with coordination, policy and scientific teams to process pesticide applications in line with the relevant legislation. The GB/NI only regime requires the management of information required to specifically support either GB only or NI only applications. Particular emphasis is on the handling and understanding of divergence in applications and authorisation processes including record keeping of divergence.

Responsibilities

Be a key lead on operational delivery of the pesticides authorisation process, with particular expertise on GB and NI divergence.
Coordinating decision making with colleagues and implementing actions on authorisations or processes.
Effectively plan delivery to meet wider objectives, balancing resources with business needs.
Represent CRD at meetings (both internal and external) around the divergence between GB and NI, to ensure the GB/NI regime works legally and operationally in support of all of our stakeholders.
Act as the link between CRD and the EU Commission / Member States for information flow to enable Northern Ireland to fulfil statutory duties.
Ensure that all delivery of the authorisation process for pesticides is completed within internal and regulatory deadlines, and reflects any differences between GB and NI.
Manage a team of Band 5s and Band 6s to deliver a wide range of tasks in support of the pesticides process. Set clear objectives, priorities, standards and expectations, and coach, support and develop the team to ensure they have the right skills and training to deliver what is required and develop in their roles.
Engage, collaborate, and motivate the team with ongoing transformation work concerning systems used to process applications and authorisation documentation.
Be an active member of the team leadership group.
Contribute to the work of CRD’s Applicants Enquiry Helpdesk by managing and answering enquiries from a diverse range of stakeholders.
Contribute to the answering of requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and Environmental Information Regulations 2004.

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Customer Services Officer

We contribute to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) strategy – Protecting people and places. Our contribution is to protect people at work and or who are impacted by a work-activity by ensuring risks are properly managed.

The team is a front-facing, high volume, fast-paced, operational, front-line team. In 2021/22 the team received 52k new workplace health and safety concerns (report a health and safety problem), and advice requests. In our efforts to continuously improve, we seek to adopt the digital approach as opportunities arise.

We are looking for motivated and dedicated customer focused people to join the team to play an important role in ensuring that HSE provides a professional response to Health and Safety Concerns, and Advice requests, within strict deadlines. You will be working on behalf of Customer Services, as a call handler. Your main responsibility is to answer calls in a professional manner; direct customers to HSE online forms or complete online forms on behalf of customers, redirect customers if it is not a matter for HSE to deal with and point customers to relevant health and safety information.

Graduate Ergonomist/Human Factors Specialist

We are looking for a qualified scientist to join our Human Factors team in the Risk and Human Factors Group in maintaining our role as a leading provider of health and safety solutions to industry and government, nationally and internationally. In HSE SD, we use applied science to underpin and inform pragmatic guidance and advice to meet the current and future needs of industry. The scope of our work requires a diverse range of expertise.

This breadth of expertise underpins our particular strength in creating multidisciplinary teams to support major incident investigations and policy development, as well as undertaking research and providing consultancy support.

This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills in a highly diverse way across most industrial sectors to contribute to valuable research, technical support, investigations, and training delivery.

You will be part of a team of Ergonomics, Human Factors and Psychology specialists and your work will require collaboration with a range of other technical discipline specialists, as well as Policy and Regulatory colleagues.

Administrative Officers

Operational Support staff contribute to the delivery of the HSE Workplan by supporting the work of HSE Inspectors across a range of industries including Manufacturing, Construction, Chemicals and Energy. The support is delivered through a range of established and developing procedures.

The main function of the Administrative Officer role is to support the work of HSE Inspectors in frontline operational delivery.

In this role you will contribute to the important work HSE 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.

As part of this role, you will need to:

Develop awareness and knowledge of HSE’s work and organisational structure.
Acquire an understanding and knowledge of relevant operational and business support procedures and functions.
Work closely with Team Leaders and colleagues to deliver the key responsibilities of the post, in a flexible and responsive manner, and according to agreed timescales.
Keep abreast of changes to procedure and personal role, in line with business priorities and personal development needs, responding positively and flexibly to change.
Deliver high level professional customer service at all times.

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