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.

Principal Risk Scientist x 2 posts

Do you want to work at the forefront of emerging technology and new innovations, e.g. play a part in helping to deliver the UK government’s Net-Zero/ Decarbonisation agenda and UK’s National Space Programme?

This an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant team that delivers cutting-edge, challenging research, support and consultancy for HSE and other customers in areas including aerospace, energy infrastructure, transport, batteries, chemicals and nuclear sectors.

Pipeline Engineering Specialist

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting an experienced Pipeline Engineering Specialist to join our Energy Division.

Our Specialist Pipelines Engineers help Britain’s most diverse and essential industries work safely. In this frontline role you can influence not only individual employers but a whole sector of industry.

Using your specialist knowledge in our Gas and Pipelines Unit, you will provide advice on pipeline safety and integrity matters, together with more general advice on safety and technical issues associated with gas supply and pipeline operation within HSE, other government departments, industry and external stakeholders.

You will undertake site and operations inspections and audits, of onshore and offshore pipeline systems, giving relevant advice and taking appropriate enforcement action. Make technical and strategic contributions to HSE’s interests in pipeline standards and technical developments.

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

Assistant Business Partner – Energy Division and Chemicals Explosives Microbiological Hazards Division

This is an exciting opportunity as an Assistant Finance Business Partner within HSE providing support to a Divisional Business Partner (Band 2) to ensure the Divisional Director and senior managers receive expert strategic advice on all matters finance, planning, business performance and business risk.

This role supports the main major hazard sectors in HSE (including offshore safety and onshore chemicals). The risk profile and high hazard nature of these sectors requires HSE input which includes working in partnership with stakeholders; communication activities; and regulatory interventions (inspection, investigation, review of safety cases and enforcement).

The role includes being able to proactively identify and manage risks and opportunities (financial, performance and VFM) supported by the provision of management information from our award-winning Business Intelligence Team.

You will report directly through to the Business Partner and ultimately to HSE’s Director of Finance. As a member of the HSE finance and planning community you will bring strong technical skills combined with wider business experience and a willingness to develop your skill in a supportive and challenging environment. The roles include contributing positively to HSE’s overall performance and seeking business improvements in how we deliver our objectives.

For further information on how to apply, please visit Civil Service Jobs.