Geospatial Analyst

We are looking for a Geospatial Analyst to join our Data Management and Spatial Analysis Team (DMSA) in the Analysis and Data Group. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to contribute to valuable operational and scientific projects, providing services and undertaking research and analysis to support HSE’s regulation and enforcement duties.

You will be part of a team of geospatial specialists and there will be opportunities to collaborate with scientific and technical experts across many other disciplines.

Health Safety and Wellbeing Business Partner

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting an experienced Health Safety and Wellbeing Business Partner within the Human Resources Division.

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.

We are looking for someone who 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.

Strong leadership is required to:

• Influence thinking and actions on HSW culture at divisional and organisational level.
• Lead task and finish groups to identify and implement improvements to HSW policy and procedures and culture.
• Represent the HSW team and HSE at internal and external meetings and events.
• Build and maintain effective HSW support networks.
• Influence, coach and support senior leadership teams to achieve HSW cultural excellence in their area.

For further information on the full job description and application process please see Civil Service jobs.

Senior Regulatory Scientist – Exposure Team

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting an experienced Senior Regulatory Scientist to join our Non-dietary Exposure team within the Chemicals Regulation Division.

The Non-dietary Exposure Team’s function is to assess occupational and other non-dietary exposure of people to pesticides and biocides. This is an exciting time to join the team and you will play a leading role in developing the UK Government’s approaches to assessing the risks arising from exposure to chemicals and work with a variety of national and international organisations and experts. To help us meet these challenges, we require an ambitious senior regulatory non-dietary exposure expert to join us.

You will already be an established professional in occupational and non-dietary exposure assessment of biocides. Beyond your specialism you will work alongside a multi-disciplinary team of chemical and environmental scientists and other technical experts undertaking risks assessments using range of data relating to biocide active substances and products. Your role will be to lead occupational and non-dietary exposure assessments of biocides and explain conclusions and decisions internally and externally, to independent scientists, other government departments and relevant stakeholders.

As a Senior Regulatory Scientist, you will mentor and support members of the team, provide peer review of work, lead on specific technical aspects, and provide advice to specialist and policy colleagues and wider stakeholders.

For further information on the full job description and application process please see Civil Service jobs.

Senior Content Designer

We are currently recruiting for Senior Content Designers in our Web and Design Unit. This is an exciting opportunity for experienced and highly motivated designers who are enthusiastic about all forms of design and want to make a positive impact in helping to protect people from death, injury and ill-health.

Roles require expert practitioners with deep content design experience who will define and assure content design best practice, making sure our content aligns to HSE’s strategy and objectives, while meeting the needs of our users.

This role is key in transitioning HSE’s website and to improve engagement with citizens, employers and workers. Our website proposition includes developing an effective presence on gov.uk, while iterating and improving the existing content on hse.gov.uk. Our ambition is to produce a best-in-class web presence that delivers HSE guidance, content and services that meet user needs.

We’re looking for people with interpersonal skills who enjoy working in a demanding, high profile environment, with the ability to use a variety of different communication skills. You will need to be comfortable working independently across a range of communication, policy and digital disciplines.

Head of Devolution Engagement and Policy Team Leader

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting an experienced Head of Devolution Engagement and Policy Team Leader to join our Engagement and Policy Division.

As the Head of Devolution Engagement and Policy you will have influence across all of HSE’s functions to ensure that we consider devolution early and carefully in developing and delivering our plans to protect people’s health and safety at work.

You will have ownership of HSE’s guidance framework on our devolution capability and process, maintaining its currency and ensuring it is widely implemented. Your team will help to ensure that:

HSE promotes the benefits of being a GB regulator in England, Scotland, and Wales;
Senior leaders receive assurance that HSE policy is equally effective for those we regulate (our duty holders) and workers across all three GB nations;
Our policies respect and support devolution within the UK;
We engage proportionately at the right level with stakeholders in Scotland and Wales
We maintain sufficient devolution capability.

For further information on the full job description and application process please see Civil Service jobs.

Senior Policy Adviser – Scotland

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting an experienced Senior Policy Advisor to join our Engagement and Policy Division.

As a Senior Policy Advisor you will help colleagues across HSE to consider how devolution could affect their work plans, ensuring policies and programmes are equally relevant and implemented across all three nations of GB, and specifically in Scotland.

You will be working within a small team as well as with colleagues across HSE to build awareness and consideration of the Scottish 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 Scotland working collaboratively with other parts of HSE;

Proactively building and maintaining a network of contacts, working collaboratively and inclusively to protect HSE’s role and reputation in Scotland;

Supporting the direction of HSE policy and engagement with key stakeholders and partnerships in Scotland to advise senior leaders.

For further information on the full job description and application process please see Civil Service jobs.

Chief Inspector of Buildings Office

We have an exciting opportunity for a Complex Case Leader to join our growing team in the Chief Inspector of Buildings Office.

You will manage a range of administrative, engagement, financial and governance processes, as well undertaking research and complex casework for the Head of the CIBO.

If you would like more information on the requirements or selection process, please see the full job advertisement.

Senior External Affairs Manager

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the independent regulator for work-related health and safety. Our purpose is to protect people and the environment – we save lives.

We are looking for an ambitious Senior External Affairs Manager to join our award-winning communications team with a strong focus on innovation and making a difference in people’s lives. We are looking for someone who can use a variety of different communication skills. They will need to combine being an all-rounder with a level of specialist knowledge in External Affairs as we operate a flexible team structure.

A dynamic and creative person, you will help to shape the way we communicate with external stakeholders on key priority work areas outlined in our new strategy.

Equipment Manager

In your role of Equipment Manager you will oversee and coordinate the management of essential equipment across HSE, including but not limited to the management of:

Intrinsically Safe Equipment (ISE) for operational divisions; Construction Division (CD), Chemicals, Explosives, Microbiological Hazards Division (CEMHD), Energy Division (ED), Field Operations Division (FOD) and Science Division (SD);
The current equipment exchange programme with 3rd party supplier; and
Science Division’s asset management including the management of 3rd party service provider(s).

Ensuring all equipment is fit for purpose, maintained, calibrated and available when required to meet the needs of the Divisions.

The delivery of an asset management system or appropriate tools to enable accurate record keeping and notification of upcoming compliance requirements e.g. annual calibration, inspection and maintenance.

As the Equipment Manager you will take ownership of Science Division’s Incident Response requirements e.g. training needs, competency records and Incident Response rota

Additionally, you will be expected to contribute to the wider SD Delivery Teams and HSE Operational Divisions to inform future equipment strategy and decision-making.

For more information on the role or to apply please follow the link below.

Head of Building Control

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

The Head of Building Control will be responsible for the development of a new team who will deliver a range of services from monitoring and auditing performance of building control bodies to registration of building control approvers, building inspectors and verifying competence. Due to this role being part of the development of the overall Building Safety Regulator, you will be heavily involved in deciding what training is needed as well as development of processes and guidance.

When you join us in this role, you’ll be fundamental to the success on our new initiatives, and work closely with other senior leaders to lead the establishment of the teams who’ll operate as the BSR after implementation. Working closely with senior colleagues, you’ll turn policy into operational practice, work that will include learning from early testing, and using this learning to inform and refine approaches, process and systems. Our people will be key to the success of the BSR, and you’ll lead on building the capability and the teams we need to deliver, as well as the training and preparation for the operational readiness of your team.

For more information on the role or to apply please follow the link below.