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.

Your work will make the most of your experience – whether that’s inspecting an explosive processing plant, helping an employer understand the right controls to have in place, or contributing to the development of industry standards and guidelines. The balance of an individual’s key responsibilities will depend on their role within the Unit which could be either as an explosives specialist in an operational team or as an explosives topic specialist in a portfolio role. As you can see this role will broaden your knowledge and your professional credibility like no other role can.

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 be enrolled on the Specialist Training Programme (STP). You will receive appropriate training and will be required to study for and successfully complete a legal assessment.

Given that HSE regulates sites across the whole of GB you will be expected to spend periods working away from home, typically 2 to 3 days every fortnight. HSE is flexible on how this expectation is delivered and recognises individuals’ personal commitments.

For further information on applying for this role, please see the full job advertisement.

We are looking for a someone with joinery skills and a practical aptitude to join our technical support team. The team provides support to the Science Division of HSE in a number of ways, including:

• Building and manufacturing experimental rigs and facilities
• Collecting evidence from incident sites across the UK and storing it appropriately
• Supporting experimental programmes, taking part on test days as appropriate
• Maintaining equipment and facilities used by the division
• Using lifting and other heavy equipment across our Buxton site

Based in the Major Hazards Group within Science Division, the work of the team contributes to incident investigations, research projects for HSE, other government departments and commercial clients. There are a range of teams in the Major Hazards Group including mechanical engineers, engineering materials specialists, fire and explosion, hazardous materials and explosives experts. You will be working with people from all these teams to deliver projects and support testing. Much of the work in the group is focused on the safe introduction of green energy technologies, including batteries and hydrogen.

If you are interested in science and engineering, enjoy a varied and practical role and want to make a valuable contribution, this may be an exciting role for you.

The Committee comprises three non-executive members of the HSE Board, one of whom serves as Chair of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee, and one independent member. The independent Audit and Risk Committee Member will provide specialist and independent input into the Committee, helping to ensure that HSE is managed in a manner that is risk aware, effective and is a model of good corporate governance.

As an independent ARAC member you are expected to:

• Engage with relevant Executives to achieve a full understanding of the HSE’s functions and provide advice outside the confines of the Audit and Risk Assurance Committee.
• Prepare, attend and actively contribute to quarterly Audit and Risk Assurance Committee meetings
• Contribute impartial advice on the adequacies of assurances provided on financial and risk management, internal controls, the outcomes of assurance activity and on any implications for corporate governance.
• Constructively challenge the assurances provided and draw on ways in which those assurances could be developed from your own professional background, while respecting executive responsibility.
• Maintain familiarity with the HSE internal and external landscape to enable appropriate challenge and relevant assurance.
• Maintain an open and professional line of communication and relationship with all key stakeholders including the Accounting Officer, Director of Finance, Head of Business Assurance and external and internal auditors.
• Promote a culture of ethical awareness, integrity and accountability.
• Respect confidentiality and declare conflicts of interest.
• Take part in corporate initiatives and training as required, to support the continuous improvement of HSE.
• Act in accordance with accepted standards of behaviour in public life
• Ensure that the ARAC acts as an effective body which adds value to HSE and acts in best interests of wider public.

For further information about the role including the application process please see Recruitment Pack below:

ARAC Independent Member Recruitment Pack