Communications Officer – Media

Are you interested in communications and media? If so we have an exciting opportunity for an experienced senior communicator who is looking to make a positive impact in citizens lives to join our award-winning communications team.

The team works across a wide range of areas, from proactive announcements on specific policies, campaigns and prosecutions to reactive work, fielding calls from journalists on our busy news desk.

Key Responsibilities

Reactive media management – dealing with breaking stories, drafting and providing statements and information to journalists, and keeping the organisation updated on news coverage.
Proactive media handling – coming up with creative ways of telling the HSE’s story, drafting press releases, and liaising with journalists.
News management – the ability to quickly spot both potential problems and but also opportunities to insert a government voice positively.
Providing regular media handling advice to officials and colleagues on sensitive, complex and high-profile issues.
Working with other communicators in the HSE on campaigns, digital, stakeholder and internal communications.
Developing and maintaining strong relationships with officials, journalists, stakeholders and colleagues in other departments.
Managing HSE’s media-monitoring account and, evaluating and reporting on media coverage.
Creating content for HSE’s social media accounts.
You would also contribute to the Press Office out-of-hours service.

Mechanical Engineer (Engineering Incident Investigator)

At HSE, we work with one goal in mind – to help keep Britain’s workforce safe and healthy. Our work touches virtually every sector of Great Britain’s industries. Combining specialists from numerous fields, we strive to keep people and their working environments safe.

We are looking for two engineers to join our Engineering team in the Major Hazards Capability Group. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to contribute to innovative work to support HSE incident investigations, and research and testing projects to directly improve the lives of people in their workplaces.

You can expect to contribute to a diverse range of projects within the health and safety sector, especially HSE incident investigation support and, also be involved in work for other government departments and industrial clients.

You will be part of a team of mechanical, electrical and gas engineers delivering experimental testing primarily in relation to incident investigations but, you will also collaborate with technical experts across many other disciplines.

You will be expected to attend incident sites across Great Britain at short notice, and some overnight stays will be required.

You will also contribute towards non-incident engineering safety research and testing that contributes to HSE’s strategic priorities.

Trainee Project Manager

Do you have the aptitude to be a great Project Manager?

Are you a dynamic, organised individual with great communication and problem-solving skills? If so are you interested in project management career at HSE.

As a Project Manager in HSE’s Science Division, you will oversee delivery of Science and engineering projects to customer requirements, time and cost.

You will be part of a team of Project Management specialists and will oversee a diverse portfolio of projects, for both commercial clients and HSE whilst collaborating with internal and external stakeholders

Senior Research and Policy Officer – Fire safety

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Research and Policy Officer to join our growing team.

We have an establishing program of work to systematically review fire safety risks. You will assist in developing policy to address fire safety risks. You will have to work with a range of stakeholders within government and in industry including our fire safety expert advisory group, to ensure that any policy developed is based upon sound evidence and communicated effectively.

The successful applicant will manage a number of areas of policy work and will need to work flexibly and often at pace. The post will be within a team of technical specialists and policy generalists responsible for a range of regulations including those for ventilation standards, accessibility, acoustics, structure and for the energy efficiency of buildings. You may be required to work across the technical policy team to deliver other areas of work when demand requires it.

Investigator

There is a current opportunity for an experienced investigator or regulator to join HSE’s Building Safety Division.  As part of the Government’s response to the Grenfell Tower tragedy, HSE established and is continuing to grow and develop the new Building Safety Regulator (BSR) under the Building Safety Act 2022.

Job description

As an Investigator with HSE’s Building Safety Division you will work as part of a team that undertake proportionate investigations and enforcement into potential breaches of the Building Safety Act 2022 and other relevant legislation.

Key responsibilities:

Identify, gather and sift evidence, and where necessary obtain, plan and execute searches of premises under warrant or statutory provision
Record, retain and review material to comply with disclosure responsibilities under the Criminal Procedures and Investigations Act 1996 (CPIA)
Develop and implement strategies for interviewing victims, witnesses and suspects (under caution) in line with the principles of achieving best evidence and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
Critically analyse complex information to make accountable and well-reasoned decisions or recommendations
Prepare and submit files to decision-makers, including to HSE prosecutors for charging decisions or tribunal hearings
Effectively manage own case work and develop appropriate strategies aligned to investigative objectives
Attend court to give evidence and support prosecutors throughout criminal proceedings or tribunals
Provide victims and witnesses with support throughout the investigation process ensuring they are kept up to date and any identified risks are effectively managed
Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and stakeholders and problem solve through negotiation and communication.

For more information on the role, please follow the link below.

Senior Mechanical Engineer

As a Senior Mechanical Engineer, you will join our Mechanical Engineering team in the Major Hazards Capability Group at Science Division. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to contribute to innovative work to support HSE incident investigations, and research and testing projects to directly improve the lives of people in their workplaces.

You can expect to contribute to a diverse range of projects within the health and safety sector, especially HSE incident investigation support and research, and also be involved in work for other government departments and industrial clients.

You will be part of a team of mechanical, electrical and gas engineers delivering experimental testing in relation to incident investigations but you will also collaborate with technical experts across many other disciplines.

Customer Service Concerns Handling Officer

We are looking for motivated and dedicated customer focused people to join the team and play an important role in ensuring that HSE provides a professional response to Health and Safety Concerns, and Advice requests, within strict deadlines.

Working in The Customer Service Team, your role will be to assess / triage health and safety risk, contact businesses and customers, to ensure cases are resolved in line with expectations and service levels.

You will be responsible for processing your assigned work, and making an assessment on information received about the matters. You will work collaboratively with internal and external customers to obtain accurate and relevant information. You will ensure that responses are professional, accurate and timely, and work is recorded accurately on systems.

Senior Dynamics Functional Consultant

As a Senior Dynamics Functional Consultant, you will work with a wide range of stakeholders such as user researchers, product managers, designers, business analysts, content specialists, delivery managers and other digital architects, all of whom share a vision for a user centric approach and making government services better through smarter use of technology.

In this role you will drive and deliver development and implementation of Microsoft’s Dynamics 365/Power Platform solutions which form part of HSE’s back office and business facing solutions. This will enable the development of integrated solutions that meet current and future business needs focused on Regulatory Systems. This is a great opportunity for a Senior Functional Consultant looking to develop their Dynamics skillset.

Dynamics Functional Consultant

We have an exciting opportunity for a Dynamics Functional Consultant to join our growing team. 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.

Electrical and Control Engineering Specialist

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

We are looking for high calibre engineers who can, under challenge, think strategically, identify underlying core issues, and engage at different levels both with colleagues, site technical staff and at the most senior levels within an organisation. You will be able to influence those organisations to bring about improvements and be decisive and clear about what is needed.