Head of Financial Accounting and Reporting

Planning, Finance, and Procurement Division (PFPD), core activities are critical to the effective and efficient way that HSE delivers its strategic objectives. We are the custodian of the system of internal control and ensure effective governance processes are in place. We drive the planning processes to ensure we can deliver our regulatory activity with an agreed financial budget and with appropriate mechanisms to monitor and analyse performance against these targets.

This is an exciting opportunity for you to play a pivotal role within the Finance function with the opportunity to develop and progress your finance career within HSE or the wider Government Finance Community.

The Head of Financial Reporting and Accounting is a key member of HSE’s Finance team. You will report to the Assistant Director of Finance, leading a small Finance team to strengthen delivery of core financial controls, providing technical accounting advice and producing the statutory financial accounts.

You will work closely with the Head of Financial Management & Control to agree the priorities and deployment of the central finance team, including trainees. You will also have an important role in advising Finance Business Partners on the application of accounting policies.

You will provide leadership, advice and direction to the team to support the continuous improvement of the finance function in HSE as well as the learning and development of individuals.

Senior Regulator – Investigations Unit

Withing our Building Safety Division (BSD) we are looking to recruit two Senior Regulators.

As a Senior Regulator it will be your responsibility to work as part of a team on the investigation and enforcement of potential breaches of building safety legislation and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. You will be responsible for leading, planning and carrying out investigations into potential breaches of law, complaints and mandatory occurrences. This may also involve serving enforcement notices, collecting evidence and proposing and preparing cases for criminal or civil litigation.

Person specification

Essential Skills and Criteria:

Experience of investigating corporate organisations and enforcing to the criminal standard, preferably within a regulatory environment.
Ability to make regulatory decisions within agreed policy frameworks and to understand complex technical standards.
Ability to work as part of a team, and where appropriate lead and investigatory teams.

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Procurement Lawyer

As a Procurement Lawyer you will approve and manage all procurement law aspects of the Department’s approach to procuring construction works and services including its construction frameworks.

You will work within HSE’s Legal Services Division and will be the sole lawyer advising on HSE procurement. An ability to work independently and with a wide degree of autonomy is required. There may also be the opportunity to assist with more general public law advisory work.

Expenses/Debt Recovery Officer

This is an exciting opportunity to work in HSE’s central finance division (PFPD), a dynamic and fast-paced team at the core of the organization and you will work closely with stakeholders across HSE. This role is key to ensuring effective financial operations, driving improvements, and supporting the organization’s goals through collaboration and innovation.

The primary purpose of this role is to deliver the expenses and debt recovery activity. The role involves various expenses related tasks including checking, reviewing policy and reporting activities. The role will also provide an escalation point for debt recovery activity.

You will have direct responsibility for the delivery of the expenses related activity resulting from the increase in travel related to the Building Safety Division (BSD) and to ensure compliance with current guidelines.

Previous experience of Expenses and Debt recovery is required.

Manufacturing Technician

We are looking for a Manufacturing Technician to join the Technical Support Team. This exciting opportunity will be based at the HSE Science and Research Centre, our research laboratory and unique outdoor testing facilities, in Buxton, Derbyshire.

The Technical Support Team is part of the Major Hazards Group in the Science Division of HSE. The Major Hazards Group has several teams of scientists and engineers in areas including fire and explosions, hazardous materials, mechanical engineering, and materials science. These teams work on research relating to the safety of new technologies such as green energy and batteries, as well as investigating incidents. The team supports the group and the wider HSE in a range of ways including building test equipment for research projects and incident investigations, and collecting and managing evidence from incident sites. This makes the job varied and interesting.

Service Delivery Manager

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Band 3/SEO Service Delivery Manager to join our team in the Information, Technology and Services Division (ITS) within HSE.

As the Service Delivery Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing the delivery and continuous improvement of digital services across the organisation. Following established acceptance into service processes you will ensure that services are delivered to meet business objectives while maintaining a focus on customer satisfaction.

HSE’s Service Operations team strive to constantly improve the technologies and services supporting the organisation. Our service management team are very highly regarded within the organisation and pride ourselves on excellent customer service.

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Senior Research and Policy Officer – Structural Safety

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Band 3/SEO Senior Research and Policy Officer to join our team in Building Safety Division (BSD) within HSE.

The Building Safety Division 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.

For this role we are looking for a technical policy advisor to assist in the development of policy in relation to the structural safety of buildings. The successful candidate will help manage research and draft revisions to support the update of the statutory guidance to Building Regulations on structural safety. They will also be helping provide advice within the Building Safety Division and wider government on emerging structural safety matters.

Senior Research and Policy Officer – Building Standards

We have an exciting new opportunity for a Band3/SEO Senior Research and Policy Officer to join our team in Building Safety Division (BSD) within HSE.

This vacancy is for a policy professional to lead on a wide range of work packages in support of Government priorities in relation to Building Regulations and standards.

The job offers outstanding opportunities for the right candidates to use their knowledge to ensure Ministers have expert advice; to enable the Government to successfully influence the national agenda; to oversee critical research projects; and to engage effectively with key partners in industry and government.

Principal Risk & Process Safety Scientist

This an exciting opportunity to join a vibrant team that delivers cutting-edge, challenging research, support and consultancy for a wide range of risk and process safety topic areas . For example; Major accident hazard industries (eg; Oil & Gas, Chemicals), emerging NetZero technologies (uses of Hydrogen, Carbon Capture and Storage, Ammonia, Batteries, Nuclear Fusion), transport industries (aerospace, road, rail and shipping), high risk buildings as part of HSE’s new role as Building Safety regulator and emerging safety risks posed by increased adoption of artificial intelligence.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced risk and process safety specialist to join the Risk Team in the HSE’s Science Division (SD).

Senior End User Computing 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. We support over 3000 colleagues working in a hybrid style at home and in 26 offices across Great Britain. 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.

You will lead the End User Computing (EUC) Team and manage the HSE’s End User Computing estate (Tablets/laptops/PCs, virtual desktop and smartphones), ensuring that the EUC environment remains available, performant to SLAs/OLAs and relevant to business requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and manage the EUC Team, including line management of one or more team members. Deputise for the Lead Infrastructure Engineer.
Lead and deliver the highest standards of user and customer focus, ensuring that services are delivered to user/customer satisfaction. Endeavour to routinely communicate with users/customers to promote confidence the incidents and requests are being progressed.
Monitor and operate the HSE End User Computing environment, ensuring services remain available 24/7/365, performant to SLAs/OLAs, and delivering a good user and customer experience.
Lead the management of device deployment using remote deployment techniques (Windows AutoPilot/InTune).
Lead on packaging, releasing and updating applications deployed to EUDs.
Lead the delivery of event, incident, problem, capacity and change management by the EUC Team following ITIL principles.
Plan, implement and monitor upgrades to the EUC environment, coordinating change activity, engaging with users and ensuring that upgrades are understood and appropriate.
Maintain accurate configuration management and asset information for the EUC environment.
Lead on the ensuring the security of the EUC environment, defending against cyber-attack, preventing unauthorised access, unauthorised data exchange and data-loss.