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.

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.

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.

Trainee Inspector of Health and Safety

Are you an ambitious individual passionate about keeping people safe? Are you looking to kick-start a rewarding career in Health and Safety? Do you have a 2:2 degree or recognised Level 6 equivalent qualification?

Then we have the opportunity for you. We are excited to welcome 36 new Trainee Inspectors across various locations and divisions to our growing organisation.

Our Trainee route offers you the opportunity to undergo the prestigious, NEBOSH-accredited Regulators’ Training Programme (RTP) that will give you the skills, resilience and knowledge necessary to be a competent inspector and open up routes for you to embark on a rewarding career with a flexible organisation that will support your professional development.

If you are interested in hearing more about the opportunities available, you can receive further information on how to apply by Clicking Here.

If you would like to register for our Open Days or Information Events where you will receive the opportunity to hear from current and previous Trainee Inspectors and gain valuable insight into what the job entails, you can sign up by Clicking Here.

Candidate Pack

Regulators’ Training Programme (RTP) Information

FAQs

Occupational Health Specialist Inspector

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. This role will broaden your knowledge and your professional credibility like no other role can and you will be fully supported by your colleagues including the widest range of health and safety experts in Britain.

Together, you’ll be helping to protect thousands of people, whether that be from our offices or out on site.

Head of the HSE Pandemic Inquiry Team

HSE played a significant role in the national response during the Pandemic, and we expect to participate in the Scottish and UK Covid 19 Public Inquiries. We are recruiting for the role of Head of the Pandemic Inquiry Team to lead the HSE’s response and work across government to learn lessons for the future. This is a high-profile position, reporting to the Directors of Legal Services and Engagement & Policy Division and senior leaders on the HSE Executive Committee.

You will be a key member of the senior leadership team of the organisation, linking with senior leaders across all the divisions to be able to respond to the Inquiry appropriately. You will also be responsible for working closely and , liaising with other departments and key stakeholders and external legal services providers. You will be expected to recruit and manage other colleagues in the Inquiry Team and deliver a portfolio of policy work during times when the Inquiries are not focussed on HSE. The role requires self-management, flexibility, and agility as it spans two HSE divisions: Legal Services Division and Engagement & Policy Division.

Building Control Professional

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the independent regulator for work-related health and safety in Great Britain. In accordance with Dame Judith Hackitt’s recommendations to establish a new, stronger regulatory regime following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, HSE is establishing the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR) and will become the new building control authority for high-rise residential buildings from April 2023. BSR will:
• ensure the delivery of the new regulatory regime for high-rise residential buildings
• provide oversight of the whole built environment, including setting standards, providing advice to industry, and advising Government on changes to the scope of the new regime
• oversee work to drive increased competence of professions and trades working on buildings
• establish building control as a regulated, unified profession

We are seeking building control professionals with significant experience working in the building control industry and an understanding of the challenges faced by building control bodies, together with a commitment to the elevation of the building control profession. These roles will help develop policy and processes in the areas of:
• building control related to high-rise buildings
• registration of building control approvers and building control professionals
• oversight of the profession

This is an excellent opportunity for building control professionals who are passionate about their role in creating safe buildings 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.

For more information on the role or to apply please use the link below.