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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Construction Engineering Specialist

Our Civil and Structural Engineers help to ensure employers across Great Britain in a range of essential industries work safely. In this role, you can utilise your technical knowledge and practical experience to influence not only individual employers but whole industry sectors.

A career with HSE gives you a rare opportunity to visit and interact with different and diverse employers and work activities, one day you could be inspecting at a large construction project and the next investigating an incident at a small extension.

As a Construction Engineering Specialist, you’ll work alongside other technical specialists to ensure the work activities of those we regulate are operating within the legislative framework by inspecting, investigating, and assessing companies.

Key Responsibilities

Inspect a variety of workplaces as part of a team, to make sure that risks are being actively managed and reduced, driving improvements and gaining commitment to comply with the law.
Analysis of Construction Engineering related incidents to identify the root cause and where necessary, lead the technical aspect of the investigation, calling in other specialist support.
Provide specialist opinion in reports to improve health and safety and guide legal decisions.
Appear as an independent specialist expert witness at tribunals, inquests and prosecutions.
Secure intelligence, share information and advice towards policy, research, and guidance to benefit other Government departments, the public, industry, professional bodies and trade associations.
Given that HSE regulates sites across the whole of GB you will be expected to spend occasional periods working away from home which will include overnight stays.

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Senior Policy Adviser – Wales

Engagement and Policy Division (EPD) is at the heart of how HSE reduces risk and protects people and places – it leads on HSE’s communications and business insight interventions and helps shape our policy and frontline inspection interventions.

The Welsh Language Act 1993 places requirements on HSE operating in Wales to treat both English and Welsh equally. You will help HSE better engage the people of Wales about health and safety regulation and guidance and improve the voice of Welsh language speakers to better inform HSE.

Responsibilities

Working within a small team as well as with colleagues across HSE to build awareness and consideration of the Welsh government’s and stakeholders’ responsibilities and how they affect HSE policy development and delivery by:

Promoting awareness and use of HSE’s Devolution Engagement and Capability Guidance Framework and take up of devolution learning and development;
Representing HSE’s interests at stakeholder and cross-Government meetings in Wales working collaboratively with other parts of HSE;
Supporting the direction of HSE policy and engagement with key stakeholders and partnerships in Wales to advise senior leaders.
Proactively building and maintaining a network of contacts, working collaboratively and inclusively to protect HSE’s role and reputation in Wales;
Advising HSE’s Communications Division in a review of the HSE Welsh Language Scheme, assisting with its implementation to ensure compliance and inclusivity, collaborating with the Wales Crown Bodies Pwyllgor.

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Website/Digital Performance Analyst

As a Website/Digital 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, digital platforms and campaigns, to meet the digital service standard.

The key 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.

You will deliver high quality work across all areas of digital performance analytics: data collection, data analysis, performance reporting and generating insight through compelling data stories.

You will help build capability by constantly developing your own skills and, sharing skills with others in the team and the teams developing digital services, advising colleagues across HSE in how to communicate data analysis effectively.

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Cloud Infrastructure and Environments Manager

HSE’s Development Operations (DevOps) Engineering teams, comprising both internal and outsourced capabilities, delivers support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE, and implement continuous improvement (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) for services once live. The team will design, establish and operate the processes, architectures, and services that will deliver all of HSE digital and technology services. The team will 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.

As Cloud Infrastructure and Environments Manager you will provide the leadership and management around the demand and controls of HSE’s Microsoft Azure and Dynamics 365 production and non-production IT environments.

In supporting both change and service delivery, you will develop and implement governance, processes, and tools to improve the quality of the environments management service to support HSE’s digital programmes and projects.

Fire Scientist/Engineer

We are looking for an engineer or scientist to join our Fire Safety Team, based in the Major Hazards Group, working primarily at our site in Buxton, Derbyshire.

This is an excellent opportunity to use your knowledge and skills to contribute to valuable government and industry research projects, and to be part of a team developing a new focus on fire safety matters within our organisation. Typical work may involve large (outdoor) and lab scale experimental programmes, consultancy or delivering specialised training, giving opportunity for both practical and desk based work. The team supports the newly formed Building Safety Regulator with techncial fire safety related matters, which will directly lead to maintaining standards and improvements in safety.

As part of the Fire Safety Team, you will join a number of specialists with a range of technical backgrounds, who work together to create innovative solutions to technical challenges. As part of the wider Major Hazards group within Science Division, you will also have opportunity to collaborate with technical experts across many other disciplines, including material scientists, risk experts, and human factors specialists.

As part of HSE, you may be required to provide scientific support to incident investigations. In recent years these have included understanding aspects of fires occurring in industrial settings such as warehouses, tunnels, mines or construction sites. On occasion this will include working with HSE inspectors at the sites of industrial accidents, travelling across the UK. A typical incident investigation will involve taking and testing samples and contributing to an accurate report written in clear language – suitable for use in legal proceedings.

To view a short video of some of our test work, please follow this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE2mnZRMHB4

Health and Wellbeing Business Partner

At HSE we want to create the conditions for all colleagues to be healthy, safe and well at work. To ensure we can achieve this aim we have launched an improvement programme to strengthen how we lead HSW through our people then underpin with effective systems.

As part of our Achieving Cultural Excellence (ACE) improvement programme at HSE we are building a HSW capability to help develop and deliver our health, safety and wellbeing changes.

The ACE programme is a priority for HSE and one that presents exciting and challenging opportunities for colleagues who wish to be part of an HSW change programme that will endure and make a real difference to transforming our health and safety management systems and leadership culture for HSW.

As a Health and Wellbeing Business Partner you will have responsibility for supporting and influencing HSE divisions in building an excellent health and wellbeing culture.

You will work closely with HSW team colleagues, HSW Committees, HSE Divisions, support functions and stakeholders to lead change and advocate health and wellbeing cultural excellence in HSE.

Health Safety and Wellbeing Business Partner

At the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) we want to create the conditions for all colleagues to be healthy, safe and well at work. To ensure we can achieve this aim we have launched an improvement programme to strengthen how we lead Health Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) through our people then underpin with effective systems.

As part of our Achieving Cultural Excellence (ACE) at HSW improvement programme, we are building a new HSW capability to help develop and deliver our health, safety and wellbeing changes.

The ACE programme is a priority for HSE and one that presents exciting and challenging opportunities for colleagues who wish to be part of a HSW change programme that will endure and make a real difference to transforming our health and safety management systems and leadership culture for HSW.

As the Health Safety and Wellbeing Business Partner (HSWBP) you will have responsibility for supporting and influencing HSE divisions in building an excellent health, safety and wellbeing culture.

You will work closely with the HSW team colleagues, HSW committees, HSE divisions, support functions and stakeholders to lead change and advocate health, safety and wellbeing cultural excellence in HSE.

Product Manager – Digital

As HSE Product Manager you will be responsible for the quality of the products that will be delivered by a specific programme/project within the HSE portfolio. You will be responsible for the overall vision and quality of the products being delivered, in conjunction with the programme/project lead.  You will identify opportunities for improving business outcomes and enhancing benefits, looking to continuously improve the quality, capability and efficiency of products.

You will use your knowledge of user needs and business goals to frame and solve problems and set priorities for delivery teams, identify opportunities for improving business outcomes and look to continuously improve the quality, capability and efficiency of products and services.

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

There is an expectation that you will attend the office to have Digital team meetings and to attend Project/Programme meetings when required to do so.