Senior Regulatory Scientists – Toxicology, Grade: Band 3/SEO

You will be part of a team that is delivering HSE objectives in support of the UK’s transition from the EU. With a world-class reputation for safeguarding the health and safety of people at work, HSE is adapting and evolving to meet the new challenges ahead. At CRD, we work with one goal in mind – to protect human health and the environment from the effects of potentially harmful substances.

To help us meet these challenges, we require a number of Band 3 Senior Regulatory Toxicologists to join us.

The Toxicology Team is mainly responsible for the assessment of the human health hazards and risks of a range of chemicals, including general chemicals, pesticides and biocides and their formulations. These are performed to ensure these chemicals are regulated in line with legislative requirements and safety standards.
Our Senior Regulatory Toxicologists have considerable knowledge of the regulation of chemicals and extensive experience of regulatory science, including scientific writing, regulatory decision making, working with national and international legislation, communicating with stakeholders and representational roles in different fora.

If you are interested in this role please apply via the link below.

Business Support Staff Team Leader

We help businesses and people understand how the laws to keep people safe at work affect them and provide guidance on what to do. To help us achieve this we employ the largest number of health and safety experts in the country, including frontline inspectors, specialists, policy delivery teams, economists, lawyers and support workers, all working together to help protect people.

As a Business Support Team Leader, you will manage a team of office-based support staff who provide business support to frontline inspectors and specialists. As a line manager you will need to lead and develop your team to be confident in dealing with a range of tasks associated with delivering HSE’s business related to workplace inspection, incident investigation and enforcement action.

Customer Service Apprentice – Fixed Term Appointment

Our 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.

Apprenticeships combine practical training in a job with study towards a related vocational qualification, assessed in the workplace by our training provider. As part of your apprenticeship you will need to gather work-based evidence, whilst working alongside experienced staff to gain job-specific skills as well as an understanding about the world of employment.

Human Factors specialist (pedestrian and transport safety focus)

In HSE SD, we use applied science to underpin and inform pragmatic guidance and advice to meet the current and future needs of industry. We are a leading provider of health and safety solutions to industry and government, nationally and internationally. The scope of our work requires a diversity of talented individuals.

We want to expand our team of ergonomics and human factors specialists and are looking scientists with experience of applying their knowledge in industry to join our Risk and Human Factors Group. You will be part of a team of Human Factors specialists and you will collaborate with other technical specialists across many other disciplines. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills in a highly diverse way across most industrial sectors to contribute to valuable industry research projects, incident investigations, commercial consultancy project and training delivery. The work of the team is not limited to supporting HSE in its policy and regulatory functions, so you can expect to contribute to a diverse range of projects within the health and safety sector, and to be involved commercial projects, consultancy or delivery of training.

Human Factors Specialist (generalist, including MSDs)

This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills in a highly diverse way across most industrial sectors to contribute to valuable industry research projects, incident investigations, commercial consultancy project and training delivery. The work of the team is not limited to supporting HSE in its policy and regulatory functions, so you can expect to contribute to a diverse range of projects within the health and safety sector, and to be involved commercial projects, consultancy or delivery of training

Band 3 Product Safety Operations Officer

We are looking for people who have experience of product safety and market surveillance, to work as part of a busy operations team.

In this role you will directly influence duty holders, work with HSE Inspectors, other Market Surveillance Authorities and stakeholders. There is a need to possess or rapidly acquire an understanding and knowledge of relevant operational procedures. This post offers significant development, providing insight to, and experience of operational interventions and policy, and in working collaboratively with a range of internal and external partners and stakeholders.

The post holder will require flexibility to adapt to new challenges – as the Product Safety and Market Surveillance Team grows to develop new investigation tools and techniques.

Chief Inspector of Buildings (SCS PB2)

This is a new post, offering an unparalleled opportunity to lead a dynamic team shaping and implementing a new regulatory system for the safety and standard of buildings.

As Chief Inspector of Buildings, you will be the face and voice of the new regulator. You will be passionate about working with the construction industry, residents and other regulators to improve practice and culture; confident about acting as the head of profession for building control professionals and, as a member of HSE’s Executive Committee – you will work closely with your fellow directors and with HSE’s Non-Executive Board to set and achieve HSE’s broader strategic ambitions.

To succeed in this role you will have a proven track record of achieving behavioural and cultural change in the construction industry or a comparable industry with a similar regulatory regime; as well as the excellent interpersonal skills needed to quickly establish credibility and authority. You’ll need to be adept in driving complex change both institutionally and behaviourally.

If you feel you have the leadership skills and experience necessary we encourage you to read the full details available via Green Park executive search.

Mechanical Engineering Specialist

We are looking for high calibre mechanical 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.

Our mechanical engineering specialists help some of our essential industries – with thousands of workers – to work safely. In this role, you can influence not only small individual employers but whole industry sectors.

This is a frontline specialist engineering post. You will need to apply your experience and knowledge to identify risk and underlying issues on site (often from first principles) make effective decisions on the adequacy of existing control measures and persuade and influence people at all levels to achieve compliance with the law.

Electrical and Control Engineering Specialist

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.

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.

Administration Officer

This is a very exciting time to be joining HSE, who are currently at the centre of the plans to create a new Building Safety Regulator responsible for implementing and enforcing a more stringent regulatory regime for high-rise buildings, as well as providing wider and stronger oversight of safety and performance across all buildings and increasing the competence of those working on building safety following the Grenfell tragedy (read more here: https://www.hse.gov.uk/building-safety/index.htm).

In addition, as the UK prepares for the end of the Transition Period of exiting the EU, HSE is in the process of setting up a stand-alone UK Chemicals Regulator. This will result in significant expansion for HSE.

We have a number of permanent and temporary roles in our Bootle and York offices. We are offering challenging and interesting opportunities across a range of different functions including, but not limited to: Human Resources (HR), Learning and Development (L&D), project support, policy roles, corporate support and roles supporting HSE Inspectors in frontline operational delivery.

Whichever role you are placed in you will, from day one, contribute to the important work we do.