Programme Manager Regulatory Intelligence Hub

HSE has significant experience collecting, analysing and interpreting data to create new knowledge which informs regulatory decisions as to where to focus resource to most likely identify organisations which are not compliant while not additionally burdening businesses which are compliant.

HSE had previously used its expertise and ‘in house’ Find-It approach to provide pilots to OPSS (Office for Products Safety and Standards) and Employment Agency Services Inspectorate (EAS).

This programme allows us to develop our approach from individual regulatory tools to a shared Regulatory Intelligence Hub.

We are seeking a Programme Manager to lead this work over the duration of this 18-month programme.

Building Safety Major Accident Risk Scientist

The government has asked HSE to establish a new building safety regulator in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster. The new regulator will oversee the safe design, construction and occupation of high-risk.

This exciting opportunity will be based in the Science Division of HSE at our state of the art Science and Research centre, in Buxton, Derbyshire.

This vacancy is for a Scientist to join our Risk and Process Safety Team in the Risk and Human Factors Capability Group. The Risk and Process safety Team carry out a range of work including assessment of safety cases in the chemical process, offshore oil and gas and gas distribution sectors; providing bespoke advice and consultancy to a range of industries; research projects; and providing technical training.

The Team’s main expertise lies in hazard identification, risk assessment and identification of suitable risk reduction measures to reduce the risk as low as reasonably practicable (ALARP). The Team apply their skills to assure safe operation in a wide range of application areas such as: high rise residential buildings, energy supply including emerging green energy technologies, asset integrity, supporting development of safety case approaches. Recent research carried out by the team spans topics such as coronavirus transmission to contributing to the UK net zero carbon targets.

Infrastructure Operations Engineer – Hosting

We are looking for an Infastructure Operations Engineer (Hosting) to join our growing team. This role will be to support the management of the HSE’s hosting estate, ensuring that technologies (data centres, servers, data storage, core switches, back up, load-balancers solutions) remain available, performant to SLAs/OLAs and relevant to business requirements. This role will monitor all technologies in the suite, investigating incidents, resolving problems, and developing and applying fixes and changes. The role will deliver upgrades to technologies, implement new functionality and seek to continuously improve the technologies to support the organisation in better ways. The role will ensure that the technologies remain secure, 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.

To find out more about the role and the specific requirements and further information on IT careers within HSE by following the link – ITCAREERSHSE.CO.UK.

Senior Infrastructure Operations Engineer – Network and Telephony

We are looking for a Senior Insfastruture Engineer to join our growing team to manage the HSE’s Network and Telephony estate, ensuring that technologies (Layer 2/3 switches, WiFi APs, VPNs, Load-balancing Firewalls, VOIP, Contact Centres) remain available, performant to SLAs/OLAs and relevant to business requirements.

This role will monitor all technologies in the suite, investigating incidents, resolving problems, and developing and applying fixes and changes. The role will deliver upgrades to technologies, implement new functionality and seek to continuously improve the technologies to support the organisation in better ways.

The role will ensure that the technologies remain secure, 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.

To find out more about the role and the specific requirements and further information on IT careers within HSE by following the link – ITCAREERSHSE.CO.UK.

Event Manager

We are looking for an Event Manager to join our growing team.

This role will manage the lifecycle of all Events on the HSE’s IT estate from detection through formal investigation to resolution/remediation. This role will proactively monitor and manage Events (alerts, notifications and log data) generated by systems and appliances, removing extraneous and false-positives, and determining which Events should be treated as Incidents. Trending and analysing Event data will allow the visualisation of infrastructure and service performance with the aim of pre-empting incidents and problems, developing corrective action before the events causes an impact. Supporting the incident management process, the role will manage incidents coordinating 1st, 2nd and 3rd line teams to investigate, determine root causes and rectify. This role will be very user/customer focused, mindful of the impact Incidents and Problems have on business processes and activity, and proactively resolving events before they impact the organisation.

To find out more about the role and the specific requirements and further information on IT careers within HSE by following the link – ITCAREERSHSE.CO.UK.

Senior Data Engineer (Band 3)

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our growing team. The purpose of this role is to manage the HSE’s data estate, ensuring that data remain confidential, integral and available (CIA), and relevant to business requirements.

This role will monitor all data flows and the use/re-use of data across the organisation to ensure that systems, business analytics and business intelligence are appropriate supported. This role will manage data bases to ensure they remain secure, preventing unauthorised access, data exchange and data loss. This role will engage with users, supporting their needs and ensuring that a high quality customer-focused service is delivered.

To find out more about the role and the specific requirements please see the full advertisement.

Please also see further information on IT careers within HSE by following the link – ITCAREERSHSE.CO.UK.

Head of Explosives Approved Body (Band 2 / Grade 7)

This exciting opportunity will be based in the Science Division of the HSE at our research laboratory and unique outdoor testing facilities, in Buxton, Derbyshire.
HSE’s Science Division is a world leading provider of health and safety solutions to industry and government. The scope of our work requires a diversity of talented individuals.

This vacancy is for an experienced scientist / engineer to lead the Explosives Approved Body and work with the Hazardous Materials team in the Major Hazards Group. The key element of this role is to provide leadership for the UK Explosives Approved Body (EAB). The EAB provides independent safety assessment for civil use explosive articles to enable them to be placed on the market in the UK. The EAB replaced the UK Explosives Notified Body in 2021.

This aspect of the post will involve management of the small EAB team to ensure that it offers a prompt, efficient, professional and impartial service to its customers whilst ensuring that the actions of the EAB comply fully with the relevant legal and quality assurance requirements. In addition to the EAB responsibilities, the post holder will also have opportunities to contribute to explosives related research, incident investigations and testing programs as part of the wider Hazardous Materials team activities.

Note that specific training in processes and procedures of the Approved Body will be provided for candidates that demonstrate sufficient experience to be able to develop into this role.

This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to contribute to support industry and government funded research and conformity assessment to directly improve the lives of people in their workplaces and ensure the safety of current and emerging technologies.

Technical Fellow – Risk

We are seeking technical fellows who can contribute across HSE and externally across government, industry and academia in at least one of the above national priority areas, and preferably in more than one area.

Science Division’s (SD) Band 1 (Grade 6) technical fellows play an essential role in ensuring that our science, evidence and analysis are credible both within HSE and externally. External credibility is essential both for: maintaining HSE’s reputation for delivering policy and regulation that is based on and informed by robust science and evidence; and for growing external revenue through work for other Government Departments, overseas governments, and industry. Internal credibility is essential for ensuring that technical evidence is influencing policy and regulatory thinking at a strategic level.

Head of Technical Operations

We are looking for a Head of Technical Operations to join our growing team.

The post holders role will be to lead, manage and operate all of HSE’s technical operations teams, out-sourced providers and IT infrastructure, ensuring that technologies and services remain available, performant to SLAs/OLAs and relevant to business requirements. This role will lead the team that installs, operates and disposes of all HSE technologies, investigating incidents, resolving problems, and developing and applying fixes and changes. The role will lead the delivery of upgrades to technologies, implement new functionality and seek to continuously improve the technologies to support the organisation in better ways. The role will ensure that the technologies remain secure, 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.

To find out more about the role and the specific requirements and further information on IT careers within HSE by following the link – ITCAREERSHSE.CO.UK.

Senior Registered Gas Engineer (SD Band 3/SEO)

We are looking for a Senior Registered Gas Engineer to join our Engineering team in the Major Hazards Group based in Buxton, Derbyshire. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to lead HSE gas incidents, and contribute to innovative work to support valuable HSE and industry research projects to directly improve the lives of people.

You can expect to contribute to a diverse range of work within the health and safety sector, especially HSE incident investigation, but you can also expect to be involved in project work for HSE and industrial clients.

For full details regarding this vacancy please see the full job advertisement.