Divisional Support Manager

This is an exciting, varied and challenging role within a supportive team. You’ll provide strong leadership to a team of administrators that provide support to the Senior Leadership Team and the wider Division as well as having oversight of governance for divisional messaging and knowledge base structure.

Responsibilities

The role is a mixture of management and self-tasking activities, you will:

• Line Manage 4 Band 5 colleagues on DST including:
– The Executive Assistant to FOD Deputy Directors
– The Band 5 DST Support
– 2 Divisional Development Officers leading the planning and delivery of bespoke training provision in agreement with senior leaders, both within FOD and for other Divisions as required

• Be accountable for the governance and maintenance of FOD’s SharePoint site, ensuring the content is fit for purpose.
• Lead on and deliver arrangements for management and archiving of FOD’s knowledge base
• Conduct a review of and suggest a process for the ongoing management of FOD’s Official Correspondence
• Review/document the governance and engagement arrangements in place in DST, including suggesting improvements where required
• Represent FOD on the internal HS&W committee
• Manage FOD’s communications grid, the administration of FOD All colleague communications and oversee any communications related to the plan of work and delivery
• Annually, analyse and present findings from the Staff Survey to FOD’s Senior Leadership Team

For more information or to apply for the role use the link below.

Senior Regulatory Toxicologists

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting experienced Senior Regulatory Toxicologists to join our expanding Chemical Regulations Division. You will be part of a team that is delivering HSE’s objectives. The UK having left the EU offers an exciting opportunity to develop and shape our regulatory schemes for the future.

As a senior toxicologist, 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. There will also be opportunities for you to lead for HSE on national and global activities, to ensure we keep pace with new and emerging issues in regulatory toxicology and take a leading role in new developments, such as new approach methodologies (NAMs) or non-animal techniques to hazard and risk assessment and their regulatory uptake.

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

Enforcement Lawyer

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting experienced Legal Professionals to join our new and expanding Legal Services Division. This is an exciting opportunity to join a new and vibrant legal team, whilst dealing with some of the most complex and significant prosecutions in this area of regulatory law which, put simply, helps to save lives.

You will be either a qualified Barrister or Solicitor. You will have good knowledge and experience of criminal law and practice, preferably with some experience of prosecuting. Knowledge of health and safety law or experience in another regulatory environment will be an advantage, but are not essential.
Experience of instructing external legal providers and experts is also desirable, although not essential.

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

Electrical and Control Engineer Specialist

We have an exciting opportunity for an Electrical and Control Engineer Specialist to join our growing team.

Great Britain’s health and safety record is the envy of much of the world. Central to this is our work to protect people by managing risk in a proportionate and effective way, supporting innovation and increasing productivity.

Our Specialist Electrical and Control Engineers help Britain’s most diverse – and essential – industries work safely. In this frontline role you can influence not only individual employers but whole industry sectors.

HM Principal Specialist Inspector Portfolio Holder for Tunnel and Ground Engineering

The Construction Division (CD) is an operational division in HSE and covers construction, demolition and licensed asbestos sectors and is part of the newly formed Building Safety and Construction Division (BSCD). There are four operational Units, a Sector/Policy Unit and a Construction Engineering Specialist Team (CEST). Each is led by Band 1 Head of Operations/Sector/Specialist who reports to the Head of Construction. Together they lead and manage CD as a division within the BSCD

CEST comprises 3 HM Principal Specialist Inspectors, holding the role of Portfolio Holder, and 2 HM Principal Specialist Inspectors holding the role of Team Leader. There are then two teams comprising up to 15 Specialist Construction Inspectors located across Great Britain.

For a list of HSE Offices please click on this link: HSE Offices

Administration Officer

The Energy Division 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. We are responsible for securing safety across a range of industries including energy production (oil, gas and emerging technologies), chemical/pharmaceutical production and storage and mines, explosives and pipelines.

Operational Support Staff contribute to the delivery of the Strategy 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.

Specialist Diving Inspector

The UK’s offshore industry is here for decades to come and so is the need for its regulator. This is your opportunity to be part of its future and to make a difference using your knowledge and skills whilst continuing your development within the unique variety and depth of challenge that Energy Division offers you.

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.

This is a unique opportunity to influence and improve safety across a wide range of activities, both offshore and onshore, including ageing installations, the significant new build programme and the most high-tech innovations.

Ventilation Scientist

We have an exciting and varied opportunity for a motivated individual with a degree in physics, physical chemistry or engineering, looking to develop a career in the field of ventilation science. You will join the Exposure Assessment & Control (EAC) capability, within the Health Capability Group (HCG). EAC is a multidisciplinary team comprising expertise in occupational hygiene and allied specialisms in the disciplines of noise, vibration, aerosols, respiratory protection and ventilation.

You will develop and lead research projects for HSE and commercial customers; engaging with Senior Scientists in the EAC portfolio, other stakeholders in HSE and commercial customers. The work will provide innovative support to both industry and HSE research projects, with the aim to prevent death, injury and ill-health of workers and those affected by work activities. Contribution to incident investigations may also be required.

The HCG has a wide range of technical and diverse disciplines requiring flexible and collaborative working; you will be expected to assist colleagues not only across the EAC & wider HCG but also across HSE in their programmes of work.

More details about the services available at the Science & Research Centre and HSE can be found on our website here: www.hsl.gov.uk

Noise & Vibration Research Scientist

We have an exciting opportunity for a Physicist or allied scientific discipline with experience and understanding of human exposure to noise and vibration in the workplace to join the Exposure Assessment and Control (EAC) Team at the Health & Safety Executive (HSE).

EAC is part of HSE Science Divisions’ Health Group whose purpose is to prevent worker ill health caused by exposure to chemical, physical and biological hazards.

This excellent opportunity will be based at our Science & Research Centre in Buxton, Derbyshire. The Centre is an internationally renowned scientific facility for health and safety, employing scientific, medical and technical specialists in a purpose-built laboratory at our 550-acre site.

More details about the services available at the Science & Research Centre and HSE can be found on our website here: www.hsl.gov.uk

Trainee Project Manager

Do you have the aptitude to be a great Project Manager?

Are you a dynamic, organised individual with great communication and problem-solving skills? If so, are you interested in a project management career at HSE?

We are looking for a Trainee Project Manager to join our Science Division Project Management Team based at our site in Buxton, Derbyshire.

You will be part of a team of PM specialists and will oversee a diverse portfolio of projects, for both commercial clients and HSE whilst collaborating with internal and external stakeholders. You will oversee delivery of Science and engineering projects to customer requirements, time and cost.

You must have a GCSE in Mathematics (or equivalent) and/or a nationally recognised APM Project Management qualification. If you do not have a project management qualification then you must be willing to work towards nationally recognised APM Project Management qualifications, including APM PFQ and APM PMQ which HSE will support.