Senior Advisory Lawyer – Building Safety Regulator

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is recruiting a Senior Advisory Lawyer to join the Legal Services Division’s expanding team working on the Building Safety Regulator function of HSE. Following Dame Judith Hackitt’s Building a Safer Future Report, the Building Safety Act 2022 created the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) as part of HSE, alongside new powers and responsibilities. There are two main operational areas within BSR legal team. The regulation of Higher Risk Buildings and the regulation of the Building Control Profession. These areas require legal advice and assistance to support decision making and formal legal action in courts and tribunals, including prosecution for non-compliance with regulatory standards and in relation to incidents.

This role predominantly involves line management and the provision of risk based legal advice on policies and the interpretation of legislation relating to the safety of buildings.

The legal issues the BSR legal team encounters are often complex, wide ranging and novel and our advisory lawyers will work closely with policy officials to assist them in making proper and lawful decisions, in accordance with public law principles, whilst at all times considering legal risk and anticipating legal challenges.

We are looking for a highly capable qualified lawyer, to provide legal advice on the more complex matters and to assist the Deputy Director with leading and managing the BSR legal team as well as contributing to the work of the LSD Senior Management Team.

This is an exciting opportunity to help manage and contribute to the leadership BSR legal team, whilst advising on some of the most significant and challenging aspects of regulatory law.

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Advisory Lawyer – Building Safety Regulator

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is recruiting an Advisory Lawyer to join the Legal Services Division’s expanding team working on the Building Safety Regulator function of HSE. Following Dame Judith Hackitt’s Building a Safer Future Report, the Building Safety Act 2022 created the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) as part of HSE, alongside new powers and responsibilities. There are two main operational areas within BSR legal team. The regulation of Higher Risk Buildings and the regulation of the Building Control Profession. These areas require legal advice and assistance to support decision making and formal legal action in courts and tribunals, including prosecution for non-compliance with regulatory standards and in relation to incidents.

The work of the BSR legal team is wide ranging, interesting and challenging. It encompasses criminal and civil proceedings, appeals against civil sanctions in the context of regulation of the building control profession, and supporting BSR’s role as a statutory consultee in planning applications and Inquiries. This role predominantly involves the provision of risk based legal advice on policies and the interpretation of legislation relating to the safety of buildings. The legal issues the BSR legal team encounters are often complex, wide ranging and novel and our advisory lawyer will work closely with policy officials to assist them in making proper and lawful decisions, in accordance with public law principles, whilst at all times considering legal risk and anticipating legal challenges.

We are looking for a highly capable qualified lawyer to join our supportive team where we can offer a challenging and exciting career.

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Invoicing, Debt & Expenses Assistant

This is an exciting opportunity to work in HSE’s central finance division. The primary purpose of the role is to deliver debt recovery activity working with both internal and external stakeholders. The role will also provide support for invoicing activity and reviewing expense claims.

Software Developer

You will enjoy and thrive in working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multi-disciplinary team focused on one or more projects.

You will be supporting existing systems, designing, and delivering new features as we develop our service, adhering to standards and using Agile principles ensuring timely production of goals and approvals through constructive collaboration with all relevant parties contributing to innovation of all products.

Operational Development Training Lead

We have a number of vacancies across Occupational Health, Occupational Hygiene and Radiation that we intend to fill with external recruitment campaigns in 2025. We are looking for an experienced health and safety trainer to be able to take some of the training burden from the relevant Team Leaders during this defined and expected short-term training demand peak.

This role is primarily about assisting in the training of new Specialist Inspectors within Health Unit, to equip them to be operationally ready at the soonest opportunity. You will use your existing skills, knowledge and experience to be able to ascertain individual training needs and support specialist delivery by adequately preparing new recruits for their specialist roles and their transition into the HSE regulatory training programme for specialists.

You will also produce training material to support the upskilling of Inspectors in other Divisions on specific occupational health risks and controls. In return, you will build on your existing academic knowledge by immersion in the specialist regulatory environment.

IT Asset Management Analyst

You will be a member of ITS Asset Management Team, working with the IT Asset Manager and have direct line management responsibility for IT Asset Team Coordinators. You will be involved in the coordination, integration, and continuous service improvement of how HSE manages IT assets.

You will manage HSEs Software and IT Assets throughout its lifecycle from requirements definition to procurement, operation, and disposal. You will support the definition, establishment, and management of the HSEs Software and IT Asset Management policies and processes, ensuring that HSEs Software and IT Asset Inventory is accurate and trustworthy.

You will manage request fulfilment processes, verifying that all Software and IT Assets are identified, by system, location and user, and all audit requirements supported. You will be responsible that all financial processes are managed and administered in accordance with HSE policies, ensuring the appropriate identification of risks and opportunities.

The IT kit and team you will be dealing with are physically located in our HQ in Redgrave Court, Bootle and, there is the expectation that you will attend the Bootle office at least twice per week in order to provide cover with the team. Therefore, we would encourage candidates to consider if the commute from home to the office is a feasible distance to travel before making an application.

Knowledge & information Mgr

An exciting opportunity is available for a Band 5 (EO) Knowledge and Information Management Officer to join the team within our Information Management Team (IMT). The post holder will support on the day-to-day delivery of HSEs Information Management polices and services, with a particular focus on Microsoft 365 (MS365) and building capability across the organisation.

The role will support HSE’s MS365 Information Governance Manager, providing a centre of expertise and control in HSE and will provide advice and support on all aspects of information management and governance to improve MS365 skills across the organisation.

The post holder will have the opportunity to engage with a wide range of colleagues within HSE and requires a high standard of communication, problem solving, technical knowledge and skills, as well as being flexible & pragmatic.

Dev Ops Engineer

Technology, data, and digital services underpins everything that HSE does. We are a knowledge organisation, with a wealth of experience in keeping people safe. It is the responsibility of the Information and Technology Services (ITS) Division to ensure that everyone in the organisation can access our data and information, to share it and to use it to make effective decisions. ITS support over 3000 colleagues working across Great Britain and, our services keep inspectors functioning effectively and efficiently on industrial sites nationwide, from oil platforms in the North Sea to our deepest mines and quarries.

To deliver Development Operations (DevOps) Engineering for all HSE cloud-infrastructure services ensuring that all technologies (cloud-network, cloud-hosting (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS), cloud-storage and cloud-security) remain available, performant to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and relevant to business requirements. Deliver the DevOps Engineering support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE, and support the implementation of continuous improvement (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) for services once live. Operate and deliver the processes, architectures, and services that will deliver all of HSE digital and technology services. Ensure that new cloud-based technologies are secure by design and remain secure during operations, protecting HSE’s data and users from cyber-attack and unauthorised loss. This role will engage with users, supporting their needs and ensuring that a high-quality customer-focused service is delivered.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will thrive and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on one or many projects. You will be supporting existing cloud-based services, assisting in the design, and delivery of new cloud-based services as we expand HSE’s digital services in Azure, adhering to GDS principles and using Agile principles.

Technical Policy Professional – Building Engineer (Fire and Structure)

The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) is the Government’s technical authority on buildings. As part of its duties to keep the safety and standard of buildings under review the regulator develops the technical standards for buildings including the full suite of Approved Documents. This role is in the Technical Policy Team of the Building Safety Division and will focus on the fire and structural safety of buildings.

We are looking for a construction professional to work on development of technical policy relating to Building Regulations and building standards. They will have a broad base of relevant fire and structural safety experience as well as a strong practical experience of the Building Regulations. Candidates need to be willing to work flexibly in relation to more than one area of technical expertise.

This post requires a good understanding of technical matters but also capacity to work within the broader policy and political context of Government. The post holder will work closely with other government departments and provide technical advice to support development of new policy which is both deliverable and technically sound. Candidates will be good communicators, able to present technical issues clearly and succinctly and to represent BSR with other departments, industry and standards making bodies.

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Resource Manager

We are looking for an experienced manager for a highly skilled team of scientists and technical specialists. The team delivers research, training, consultancy and specialist advice across a diverse portfolio of topics including; Process Safety, Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH), Computational Fluid Dynamic modelling, High Risk Building Safety, and emerging risks associated with UK Space Launch, Carbon Capture, alternative fuels (ie; Hydrogen and Fusion) and uses of artificial intelligence in risk management.

As a line manager your role will focus on providing pastoral line management support for the team working in collaboration with, and supported by, an established operations manager already in place within the team.

You will have overall responsibility for overseeing performance, attendance, development, and wellbeing of your direct reports. You will need to engage with Project managers, commercial managers, and operational teams to ensure that projects are properly resourced and appropriately scheduled.