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!

Occupational Health Specialist Inspector

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting an experienced Occupational Health Specialist Inspector to join our Field Operations Division.

Our occupational health specialists work as Regulators across Great Britain in a whole range of essential industries with thousands of workers, to ensure that work is managed safely. In this role, you can utilise your considerable professional knowledge to influence not only individual employers but whole industry sectors.

Your work as a regulator will make the most of your experience in occupational health – identifying risks, providing the right advice and crucially – taking steps to ensure the employer takes the necessary action. You could be inspecting the management of health risks in an engineering firm, investigating a report of occupational disease in a bakery, taking enforcement action when required. Your work will take you across the range of industries from construction, manufacturing and engineering, to agriculture, waste and recycling or the public sector.

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

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.

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 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.

Occupational Hygiene Specialist Inspector

We are looking for a Occupational Hygiene Specialist Inspector to join our team. Our team of occupational hygiene specialists work in a wide range of industries with thousands of workers. This role provides a unique opportunity to apply your technical knowledge and practical experience, influencing whole industry sectors as well as helping individual employers understand the right controls to have in place. Contributing to the policy development and industry guidelines will broaden your knowledge and your professional credibility like no other role can. You will see a clear line of sight between your input and reducing ill-health in the workplace.

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