Scientific Team Leader

HSE has an exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic Senior Scientist, to become the Technical Team Lead for the Biohazards team, in our Exposure and Health Consequences (EHC) capability portfolio.

You will lead and contribute to research projects for both HSE and Industry, alongside contributing to incident investigations, with the aim to prevent death, injury and ill-health of workers and those affected by work activities.   You will need to, under challenge, think strategically and engage at different levels with scientific peers, regulatory and policy colleagues, at senior levels within the organisation and across Government.

This is an excellent opportunity to make your mark on an organisation dedicated to saving lives. The post will be based at our Science & Research Centre in the spa town of Buxton, Derbyshire, surrounded by the Peak District National Park. 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.

At HSE we offer hybrid working, with family friendly policies and working hours to help you balance your home life and career. HSE will encourage and support you in learning and development tailored to your role; and will fund relevant professional memberships.

You will also benefit from:

- a highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme, to which HSE contribute 27.1% to 27.9%
- 25 days annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays and 1-day Civil Service privilege leave
- Family friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career

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

Pesticides Enforcement Officer

We have a fantastic opportunity within our Chemicals Regulation Division for a number of Pesticides Enforcement Officers. These positions are open on a full-time, part-time, flexible working and job share basis across multiple UK locations.

This is a frontline role where you will need to be able to influence duty holders, identify material breaches of regulations, act to remedy breaches and check compliance with duties defined in a range of chemicals regulations. You will work closely with CRD inspectors to gather evidence for prosecutions and to serve enforcement notices. You will also be expected to work independently upon demonstration of the required competencies.

You will be required to undertake a combination of proactive and reactive duties, including involvement in investigations; and there will be a need to acquire an understanding and knowledge of relevant operational procedures.

This role will provide you with significant opportunities to develop knowledge of enforcement practice and policy and working collaboratively with a range of internal and external partners and stakeholders.

Interested? You should be. For further information on how to start your HSE journey, visit Civil Service Jobs.

Organisational Design and Development Lead

We have a fantastic opportunity within our Building Safety Regulator Division for and Organisational Design and Development Lead. This position is open on a full-time, part-time, flexible working and job share basis across multiple UK locations.

Are you an experienced Organisation Design & Development (OD&D) practitioner with proven delivery within a complex organisational/programme environment?

This OD&D role will see you leading a range of organisational design and development initiatives in partnership with organisational leaders to ensure delivery of transformational change programmes and projects. This is an excellent opportunity for OD&D professionals who are passionate about their role in enabling design and development to contribute to an exciting and high-profile area of Government policy. You will help shape the development and operational delivery of the new regulatory regime for the built environment, as well as build an understanding of a regulatory environment that has not traditionally been within HSE’s area of expertise.

Interested? You should be. For further information on how to start your HSE journey, visit Civil Service Jobs.

Explosive Atmospheres Engineer/Scientist (SD Band 3/ SEO)

We are looking for an experienced engineer or scientist to join our Explosive Atmospheres Team based in the Major Hazards Group at our site in Buxton, Derbyshire.

If you hold a degree level qualification in a relevant subject (aeronautical engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics, chemistry) and either a chartered membership of your professional institution – or clearly holding sufficient experience to successfully apply, please read on.

The team is largely focused on the safe development of new energy technologies and achieving safe net zero, primarily hydrogen for heat & transport . The team undertake large (outdoor) and lab scale experimental programmes, consultancy and deliver specialised training, giving opportunity for both practical and desk based work. Several of the teams larger ongoing projects are high profile collaborations with other scientific organisations/government departments, which offers opportunity to publish work and present at conferences.

The work of the team is not limited to just energy. You will be contributing to a diverse range of projects within the health and safety sector, and be involved in both HSE led research projects and work for commercial clients. As part of the Explosive Atmospheres team, you will join a number of specialists with a range of technical backgrounds, who work together to create innovative solutions to technical challenges. 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.

For further information please click the link to apply for the full job advert.

Change and Business Improvement Manager / Senior Project Manager (Band 2/ Grade 7)

Reporting to a Change Team Manager, this is an influential position, playing a key role in the successful operation of one of the world’s leading regulators.

This is an exciting new opportunity for an exceptional candidate to drive HSE’s Transformation agenda and help shape our future. If you are looking for an opportunity to make a tangible difference that will be felt across the entire of Great Britain, please read on.

Post A Introduction – Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager lead/manage the project and the project team on a day-to-day basis. You will be responsible for driving and overseeing the delivery of the project to ensure that the objectives are clearly defined and achieved within the agreed time, cost and quality constraints. You will have a key role in project governance and working with stakeholders, to ensure the agreed project outputs are delivered to enable benefits to be realised.

Post B Introduction – Change & Business Improvement Manager

Change and Business Improvement Managers, play an important role in defining, building and implementing our ambitious roadmap of digital and business transformation, focusing on operational and regulatory effectiveness and efficiency whilst improving the user experience.

You will be responsible, at a project/programme level, for articulating business requirements and priorities for transformation, assessing business readiness, designing new operating models, driving business adoption and providing specialist change management support to HSE’s operations.

Both roles will help us lead, drive and deliver significant change across HSE, driven by a new strategy and a number of new and challenging transformation programmes.

If you would like further information on these roles please click the link to apply for full job details.

Project Support Officer (OPS Band 5/EO)

The role of the Project Support Officer covers a diverse range of activities to support the delivery of the project’s objectives. The Project Support Officer enables the smooth running of the project by supporting the project manager through the operation of project management processes, and the co-ordination of business management actions and activities on their behalf.

This is an exciting opportunity to help us lead, drive and deliver significant change across HSE, driven by a new strategy and a number of new and challenging transformation programmes.

Responsibilities

• Assist with and maintain appropriate systems to enable effective planning and scheduling.
• Assist in maintaining, monitoring and reporting project controls and in producing project reports.
• Responsible for project file management using robust version control. Organise key project meetings and provide secretariat support.
• Management of staff as appropriate, including their development.
• Assist with maintaining the stakeholder log for internal and external stakeholders. Act as the focal point for project responses to external requests for information.
• Assist with the monitor of project spend and contribute to the compilation of budgets. Maintains an accurate asset register for the project.
• Assist with and maintain risk and issue logs, escalating as appropriate

If you have experience of agile and PRINCE2 project management methodologie, working in a project or programme or similar environment and experience of working in dynamic project environment and would like further information please click the link to apply.

Change and Business Improvement Analyst (Band 3/ SEO)

This is an exciting new opportunity for an exceptional candidate to drive HSE’s Transformation
agenda and help shape our future. If you are looking for an opportunity to make a tangible difference that will be felt across the entire of Great Britain, please read on.

The Change & Business Improvement Analyst plays a key role in designing, building and implementing new operating models and digital services in line with HSE’s strategic priorities, focusing on efficiency, effectiveness, regulatory outcomes, and improving the user experience.

They are responsible, at a project level, for baselining current activities, articulating business and user requirements, designing and implementing new services, processes, organisational structures and ways of working, as well as providing continuous improvement support to HSE’s operations.

This is an exciting opportunity to help us lead, drive and deliver significant change across HSE, driven by a new strategy and a number of new and challenging transformation programmes.

If you would like further information on this role, please click the link below for the full job advert.

Explosives Specialist Inspector- Explosion Effects (CEMHD Band 3/ SEO)

Our Explosives Safety specialists ensure employers across Great Britain – a whole range of essential industries with thousands of workers – to work safely. In this role, you can utilise your considerable technical knowledge and practical experience to influence not only individual employers but whole industry sectors.

You’ll work alongside other HSE technical and regulatory specialists to ensure work activities are operating within the legislative framework by various regulatory interventions including inspecting, investigating and providing advice.

From day one, you will be supported by your manager and colleagues to understand your role in HSE, develop your skills and support you in your continuing professional development. All of the locations include specialist and regulatory colleagues providing a wider support network. For the legal requirements of the role, you will receive appropriate training and complete the Regulators Training Programme (RTP), providing you with an accredited Diploma in Health and Safety.

If you degree or equivalent in Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a similar related subject (Degrees in Chemical Engineering or other science based subjects will be considered to meet the qualification requirement where the applicant can demonstrate significant relevant practical experience) and are a Chartered Membership or Chartered Fellowship of a relevant professional institution and and would like further information, please see the full job advert for further details.

Explosives Specialist Inspector-Defence Sector (CEMHD Band 3/SEO)

If you hold a degree or equivalent in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, or a similar related subject and are a Chartered Membership or Chartered Fellowship of a relevant professional institution and and would like further information, please see the full job advert for further details.

Explosive Atmospheres Engineer/Scientist (SD Band 3/ SEO)

We are looking for an experienced Engineer or Scientist to join our Explosive Atmospheres Team based in the Major Hazards Group at our site in Buxton, Derbyshire.

If you hold a Degree Level Qualification in a relevant subject, with Chartered membership of your professional institution (or clearly holding sufficient experience to successfully apply) and would like further information, please see the full job advert.