Major Hazard Risk Assessor

Within our Chemical Explosives & Microbiological Hazards Division (CEMHD) we are looking to recruit two Major Hazard Risk Assessor Specialists.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has statutory responsibilities in the regulation of land based major hazards, some of which are delivered by the Major Hazards Risk Assessment Unit. The Unit is responsible for contributing to the regulation of land based 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, operators, developers and the public at large while 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 land-based 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).
The Pipelines Safety Regulations 1996.
The Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015, which covers development control around major hazard sites.

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Senior Occupational Hygiene & Human Exposure Specialist

We are looking to recruit a Senior Occupational Hygiene and Human Exposure Specialist to join our Chemicals Regulation Division.

You will be part of a team that is delivering HSE’s objectives in support of the UK regulation on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (UK REACH). This is part of GB’s independent chemicals regulatory framework, enabling decision-making that best reflects the needs of GB, while maintaining some of the highest standards in the world.

The main focus of your work will be to lead on specialist occupational hygiene and human exposure considerations in regulatory activities to determine if certain regulatory risk management activities may be required. For example, this could include contribution to the production and assessment of proposals to restrict chemicals that pose an unacceptable risk to humans or the environment. Additionally, before initiating a formal regulatory risk management process under REACH, an in-depth analysis of the most appropriate regulatory risk management option (RMOA) may be undertaken, for which your expert input on matters relating to occupational hygiene / human exposure will be vital.

You will also provide wider occupational hygiene support to other priority regulatory risk assessment activities, as driven by the business needs, for example, the scientific scrutiny of Applications for Authorisations and the development of technical opinions.

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Specialist Diving Inspector (Offshore)

The UK diving industry comprises many diverse and challenging sectors including offshore oil & gas, inland/inshore commercial diving, offshore renewables, recreational, media, Police, military, scientific, archaeological and shellfish diving activities.

Diving has long been recognised as a major accident hazard offshore with diving operations presenting and being exposed to very real risks whilst working from an installation, alongside from a DSV or daughter craft or as a connected activity. Robust regulation of these diving operations is critical to ensure that all offshore personnel, divers and non-divers, return home healthy and safe from work.

Your primary focus will be to apply your knowledge and experience of the UK oil & gas sector to ensure robust, proportionate and effective regulation of diving operations within that sector. You will be responsible for influencing duty holders and stakeholders, applying your professional judgement based on extensive time served working in the UK oil & gas sector, to assess regulatory compliance against current legislative requirements and industry standards. You will be supported by an exceptional team of colleagues and developed to the highest standard to confidently regulate the industry, influencing duty holders and taking targeted and proportionate enforcement action when necessary.

In addition to your work with the offshore oil & gas sector you will be responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance across all areas of professional diving within England and Wales. You will conduct regulatory inspections, investigate serious incidents and concerns and influence stakeholders at all levels of the UK diving industry. The successful regulation of such a broad portfolio of sectors creates a unique set of challenges and rewards for a Specialist Diving Inspector.

This is an exciting and challenging career which will take you to varied locations, dealing with a wide range of duty holders from individual sole traders to large multi-national corporations, adapting your approach as appropriate. You will be working collaboratively as part of a geographically dispersed, but supportive team of diverse specialists.

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.

This is an exciting opportunity for an Information Management Officer to join our team in a growing organisation. Operating in a fast paced and varied environment, your team is at the heart of enabling much of what HSE does.

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 and 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.

You will be working as part of a Bootle based team where you will need to develop knowledge and information management skills and experience. The post can be based in any HSE location with the exception of our London offices. For further information about HSE locations please click here. It should be assumed that the successful candidates will be required to attend our Bootle HQ, on average, 2-3 days every week. You should be willing to travel to various locations including other HSE offices and various stakeholder locations on a weekly basis.

Senior DevOps Engineer

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will help to develop the capability of HSEs newly formed multi-skilled DevOps Engineering team to manage the technologies of a cloud-based IT estate, deliver the DevOps Engineering support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE, and implement continuous improvement (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) for services once live.

Core to all HSE’s work is the data, information and knowledge that we have gathered and developed, and which is used to support our field force of inspectors, scientists and policy makers. Information Technology plays a vital role in assuring that HSE staff have the right information, in the right place and at the right time.

HSE is now developing on a roadmap to replace its core business systems. Major digital services programmes are underway, operating with the guidance of the Government Digital Service’s service manual and TCOP, to redesign how HSE delivers its work and how new technologies can improve operational processes. Collaboration and IoT are integral to HSE’s future, supporting remote inspections and compliance monitoring.

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Lead DevOps Engineer

As the Lead DevOps Engineer, you will manage all the DevOps Engineering support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE and Lead and manage the design, delivery, and operation of HSE’s new cloud-based digital and technology services, establishing a regime and culture of continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) for services once live. You will also support the development of the HSE’s IT Strategy and IT Enterprise Architecture.

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ITF Project Manager

HSE’s Project and Programme Management Team is a small, dynamic team managing our division’s change portfolio which covers Technology, Information and Facilities. We are made up of Project Managers, Project Co-ordinators and Programme Office Professionals and are divided into two smaller teams: the Programme Management Office and the Programme and Project team. This exciting permanent post is in the Programme and Project Team.

The Programme and Project Team is responsible for planning, co-ordinating and delivering Information, Technology and Facilities projects and programmes, with the assistance of all teams across our division, for the benefit of HSE. These projects introduce improved or new services to our organisation; ranging from fitting out new offices, to deploying and using new technologies enabling colleagues to work collaboratively from our offices and at other locations and improving the software and IT services used by our organisation’s inspectorial frontline colleagues, policy staff and scientists. As one of our highly valued Project Managers within this team, you will work closely with others to deliver an exciting and ever-changing portfolio of IT and facilities related projects.

We are looking for a motivated, dedicated and customer focused individual to join our team and play a key role in delivering IT and facilities changes in HSE.

You will be managing and delivering Information, Technology and Facilities projects through the project lifecycle from initiation to Post Implementation Review, within agreed timescales, budget and success criteria.

Sustainable Energy Safety Scientist/Engineer

We are looking for two engineers or scientists to join our Explosive Atmospheres Team based in the Major Hazards Group working at our site in Buxton, Derbyshire.

As part of HSE, you may be required to provide scientific support to incident investigations, which in recent years have included dust explosions, electrostatic ignition sources and vapour cloud explosions. 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.

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Administrative Support Trainee

The Technical Support Team is part of the Major Hazards Group within Science Division, based at Buxton. The team contributes to incident investigations, research projects for HSE, other government departments and commercial clients. There are a range of teams in the Major Hazards Group including mechanical engineers, engineering materials specialists, fire and explosion, hazardous materials and explosives experts. You will be working with people from all these teams to deliver projects and support testing. Much of the work in the group is focused on the safe introduction of green energy technologies, including batteries and use of hydrogen, which makes for an interesting and varied work environment.

We are looking for someone with a strong aptitude for administrative work, good organisational skills and the ability to communicate effectively. It will be important to have a good level of attention to detail as part of the job is involved with the receipt, logging and storage of evidence from industrial accidents, which will be used in legal proceedings by HSE, so accuracy is essential.

There is an expectation that you will learn about the types of work we deliver in the Hazards Group, to become effective in your day-to-day role of supporting the organisation of tasks.

The role will at times require working as part of a team or by yourself, so you will need to be comfortable with both scenarios. The work is not routine, so will need someone who is comfortable with and enjoys an element of variety.

Although the role will be mostly a combination of administrative tasks and looking after HSEs evidence, as a member of the team you will at times be asked to contribute more widely to the team/group’s work. This will include activities such as collecting evidence from industrial accidents across the UK, or supporting scientific experiments on our site, joining in initiatives to improve work areas or helping prepare for visitors or training courses.

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Enforcement Team Leader – Official Controls

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting an Enforcement Team Leader to join our Chemicals Regulation Division.

The Chemicals Regulation Division (CRD) employs around 300 scientific, policy and support staff in York, Bootle and London. Our primary role is to deliver regulatory schemes intended to protect the health of people and the environment, balancing the economic and social benefits that chemicals offer to society, and helping to ensure the safe and sustainable use of chemicals.

To achieve this and deliver improved regulatory outcomes, we work closely with small and large businesses, and key stakeholders, ranging from industry bodies and multi-national chemical businesses, other government departments (in particular Defra) and other regulators across Europe and internationally.

This is a frontline role managing a team of B4 Pesticide Enforcement Officers who specialise in carrying out a wide range of regulatory interventions in all areas of the chemical supply chain. The role will continue to evolve, and you will need to remain flexible to adapt to new challenges as the Enforcement Team grows, including developing new online investigation tools and techniques; and be involved in the major changes required to implement under the Official Controls Regulation 2017/625, a programme of controls at GB operators.

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