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.

Fire Scientist / Engineer

Health and Safety Executive 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.

The Fire Safety team also contribute to several projects concerning the safe development of new energy technologies and achieving safe net zero, primarily hydrogen for heat & transport and battery technologies. Several of the larger ongoing projects are high profile collaborations with other scientific organisations/government departments, which offers opportunity to publish work and present at conferences.

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, modellers and human factors specialists.

Communication Officer

We are looking for communication officers to join our team. We are currently recruiting for two roles within our Building Safety Regulator Communications Team, which is part of our Corporate Communications Branch.

This is an exciting opportunity for experienced communications professionals who are looking to make a positive impact in citizens lives to join our award-winning communications team.

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

Policy Team Leader

We currently have two interesting opportunities in our Engagement and Policy Division (EPD)

EPD are 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 strength of EPD is our ability to bring to bear our collective capability on policy, operational strategy, insight and communications, to support HSE’s prevention mission on such important issues as promoting proportionality in health and safety management and our better regulation work.

Post 1 – Head of Better Regulation Policy Team

Your role will be to lead our Better Regulation Policy Team

You will lead a varied portfolio of better regulation work and will need to work flexibly and dynamically, often at pace, in line with the demands of the policy areas you are responsible for to ensure that HSE interests and priorities are met. You will be part of the leadership team with responsibility to define the policy and design the delivery processes in emerging areas of work. You will also be expected to review and identify opportunities to improve existing practices and approaches to ensure they best support HSE’s and Government’s wider objectives.

Post 2 – Head of Physical Health at Work Policy Team

Your role will be to lead our Physical Health at Work Policy Team.

You will lead a varied portfolio of physical health policy work, including musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) work, to provide policy leadership on a range of well-known and emerging harms to health from work. You will need to work flexibly as part of a leadership team who continually adapt and develop regulatory standards which enable the design of interventions where HSE can have a measurable impact in reducing and preventing work related ill health.

HM Specialist Inspector – Process Safety

Our Chemicals, Explosives and Microbiological Hazards Division (CEMHD) is responsible for the GB-wide regulation of onshore major hazard premises and installations as well as the chemicals manufacturing sector as a whole. This involves regulatory interventions in workplaces, engaging with key industry stakeholders and providing assurance to Government and the public that major accident risks are being properly managed.

The sectors we regulate in CEMHD are essential to the country’s economy and social infrastructure, but they often involve hazardous substances and processes with potential for catastrophic accidents. The purpose of CEMHD is to make sure that the businesses that present a risk of such catastrophic events are managing those risks properly.

As a Specialist Inspector of Process Safety, you will be an essential part of the work that CEMHD do. You will use your technical knowledge and expertise to regulate major hazard industries and to influence whole sectors to improve health and safety standards, thereby helping to prevent catastrophic accidents.

Senior Project Manager

Are you a senior project delivery professional looking for a new challenge?

Do you enjoy building and maintaining professional relationships with a range of diverse stakeholders?

Would you like the opportunity to deliver projects that make a real difference to reduce work-related illness, death and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces?
If so, we would love to hear from you as this is your chance to help deliver projects that will make a difference to people’s lives and help place Britain on the forefront of reducing work-related illness, death and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces.

Based at our Science Division in the Derbyshire Peak District, you will be Senior Project Manager on a portfolio of complex/high-risk science and engineering based health and safety related projects. The projects will be a mix of both HSE (internal) and Commercial projects that include elements of design, build, manufacture, and testing, generally using waterfall methodology. You will bring experience of managing and delivering high risk complex projects at pace and have an in depth understanding of planning, risk management and project management tools and techniques.

If you are looking for a role within large, complex and high-profile projects and programmes, then we look forward to receiving your application!