Senior Regulatory Environmental Fate and Behaviour Scientist

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting experienced Senior Regulatory Environmental Fate and Behaviour Scientist to join our expanding Chemical Regulations Division. You will be part of a team that is delivering HSE’s objectives. The UK having left the EU offers an exciting opportunity to develop and shape our regulatory schemes for the future.

Environmental fate and behaviour specialists will evaluate data from standard regulatory studies examining degradation and mobility of substances in soil, water, sediment and air as well as environmental monitoring and literature data. This information is used to assess the environmental hazards and risks of a variety of chemicals, including pesticide and biocide active substances and products.

As a senior environmental fate specialist, you will mentor and support members of the team, provide peer review of work, lead on specific technical aspects including the development of new guidance, and provide advice to specialist and policy colleagues and wider stakeholders.

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

Senior Regulatory Ecotoxicologists

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting experienced Senior Regulatory Ecotoxicologists to join our expanding Chemical Regulations Division. You will be part of a team that is delivering HSE’s objectives. The UK having left the EU offers an exciting opportunity to develop and shape our regulatory schemes for the future.

Ecotoxicologists evaluate data from standard regulatory studies on the toxicity of pesticides, biocides or other chemicals to a wide range of non-target organisms such as birds, mammals, aquatic organisms, bees, non-target arthropods, earthworms and soil macro and micro-organisms as well as non-target terrestrial plants. This information, in addition to data on exposure, is used in carrying out the associated regulatory environmental risk assessments.

You will mentor and support members of the team, provide peer review of work, lead on specific technical aspects including the development of new guidance, and provide advice to specialist and policy colleagues and wider stakeholders.

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

Central Disclosure Officer

We are looking for a motivated, dedicated and customer focused individual to join the team to play an important role in ensuring that HSE provides professional and legally compliant responses to any requests for information, ensuring information is handled compliantly within statutory deadlines.

As a Central Disclosure Officer, your role is to manage requests for information that need to be considered under a number of disclosure regimes including Data Protection (DPA), Freedom of Information (FOI), Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) and Civil Procedure Rules, providing accurate and consistent responses to customers within internal and statutory deadlines.

You will be responsible for logging requests that are received and making an assessment on the most appropriate regime to handle them. You will work collaboratively with internal and external customers to obtain accurate and relevant information. You will ensure that responses are compliant with internal processes and prepare responses for release to the customer, securing approval, as required, before issuing it.

Major Incident and Continuous Service Improvement Manager

Core to all of HSE’s work is the data, information and knowledge that we have gathered and developed, and which is used to support our field force of inspectors, scientists and policy makers. Information Technology plays a vital role in assuring that HSE staff have the right information, in the right place and at the right time.

Utilising Mobile Device Management technologies to deploy, build and control smart phones, tablets and laptops, HSE has been a leading government department at the forefront of innovative remote working solutions and is continuously looking at how to better support its 1500 inspectors and visiting officers in the field.

Newly refreshed server and data storage solutions, are securely hosted in modern commercial data centres and monitored by HSE’s Security Operations Centre. Using industry-leading components, management tools and software, the data centres have undergone significant investment in recent years to ensure that services are reliable and robust.

HSE is now developing on a roadmap to replace its core business systems. Major digital services programmes are underway, operating with the guidance of the Government Digital Service’s service manual and TCOP, to redesign how HSE delivers its work and how new technologies can improve operational processes. Collaboration and IoT are integral to HSE’s future, supporting remote inspections and compliance monitoring.

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Divisional Support Manager

This is an exciting, varied and challenging role within a supportive team. You’ll provide strong leadership to a team of administrators that provide support to the Senior Leadership Team and the wider Division as well as having oversight of governance for divisional messaging and knowledge base structure.

Responsibilities

The role is a mixture of management and self-tasking activities, you will:

• Line Manage 4 Band 5 colleagues on DST including:
– The Executive Assistant to FOD Deputy Directors
– The Band 5 DST Support
– 2 Divisional Development Officers leading the planning and delivery of bespoke training provision in agreement with senior leaders, both within FOD and for other Divisions as required

• Be accountable for the governance and maintenance of FOD’s SharePoint site, ensuring the content is fit for purpose.
• Lead on and deliver arrangements for management and archiving of FOD’s knowledge base
• Conduct a review of and suggest a process for the ongoing management of FOD’s Official Correspondence
• Review/document the governance and engagement arrangements in place in DST, including suggesting improvements where required
• Represent FOD on the internal HS&W committee
• Manage FOD’s communications grid, the administration of FOD All colleague communications and oversee any communications related to the plan of work and delivery
• Annually, analyse and present findings from the Staff Survey to FOD’s Senior Leadership Team

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Senior Regulatory Toxicologists

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting experienced Senior Regulatory Toxicologists to join our expanding Chemical Regulations Division. You will be part of a team that is delivering HSE’s objectives. The UK having left the EU offers an exciting opportunity to develop and shape our regulatory schemes for the future.

As a senior toxicologist, you will mentor and support members of the team, provide peer review of work, lead on specific technical aspects, and provide advice to specialist and policy colleagues and wider stakeholders. There will also be opportunities for you to lead for HSE on national and global activities, to ensure we keep pace with new and emerging issues in regulatory toxicology and take a leading role in new developments, such as new approach methodologies (NAMs) or non-animal techniques to hazard and risk assessment and their regulatory uptake.

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

Enforcement Lawyer

The Health and Safety Executive is recruiting experienced Legal Professionals to join our new and expanding Legal Services Division. This is an exciting opportunity to join a new and vibrant legal team, whilst dealing with some of the most complex and significant prosecutions in this area of regulatory law which, put simply, helps to save lives.

You will be either a qualified Barrister or Solicitor. You will have good knowledge and experience of criminal law and practice, preferably with some experience of prosecuting. Knowledge of health and safety law or experience in another regulatory environment will be an advantage, but are not essential.
Experience of instructing external legal providers and experts is also desirable, although not essential.

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

Electrical and Control Engineer Specialist

We have an exciting opportunity for an Electrical and Control Engineer Specialist to join our growing team.

Great Britain’s health and safety record is the envy of much of the world. Central to this is our work to protect people by managing risk in a proportionate and effective way, supporting innovation and increasing productivity.

Our Specialist Electrical and Control Engineers help Britain’s most diverse – and essential – industries work safely. In this frontline role you can influence not only individual employers but whole industry sectors.

HM Principal Specialist Inspector Portfolio Holder for Tunnel and Ground Engineering

The Construction Division (CD) is an operational division in HSE and covers construction, demolition and licensed asbestos sectors and is part of the newly formed Building Safety and Construction Division (BSCD). There are four operational Units, a Sector/Policy Unit and a Construction Engineering Specialist Team (CEST). Each is led by Band 1 Head of Operations/Sector/Specialist who reports to the Head of Construction. Together they lead and manage CD as a division within the BSCD

CEST comprises 3 HM Principal Specialist Inspectors, holding the role of Portfolio Holder, and 2 HM Principal Specialist Inspectors holding the role of Team Leader. There are then two teams comprising up to 15 Specialist Construction Inspectors located across Great Britain.

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Administration Officer

The Energy Division regulates the UK’s major hazard industries – companies whose products are essential to our everyday life, but where failures in safety management and risk control can lead to catastrophic harm to workers and the public at large. We are responsible for securing safety across a range of industries including energy production (oil, gas and emerging technologies), chemical/pharmaceutical production and storage and mines, explosives and pipelines.

Operational Support Staff contribute to the delivery of the Strategy by supporting the work of HSE Inspectors across a range of industries including Manufacturing, Construction, Chemicals and Energy. The support is delivered through a range of established and developing procedures.