We are looking for a scientist with an understanding of the effects of hydrogen on metallic and other materials to join our Engineering Materials Team in the Major Hazards Group. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to contribute as part of a team to valuable industry research projects aimed at preparing the way for the future UK Hydrogen Economy.

You will be part of a team of specialists and will also collaborate with technical experts across many other disciplines.

This exciting two-year fixed term appointment opportunity will be based in the Science Division of the HSE at our research laboratory in Buxton, Derbyshire. There may be the opportunity to extend the appointment beyond two years for exceptional performance in the role.

Our Socioeconomic Team has responsibility for providing high-quality evidence-based economic advice and analysis to support the development, assessment and implementation of risk management proposals under REACH. REACH is a Regulation concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals.

You will be part of a team that is delivering HSE’s objectives in support of the UK’s exit from the European Union.  The team actively liaises and works with Policy analysts and science specialists in HSE together with representatives from other Government Departments and Agencies as well as stakeholders from industry and civil society, on matters associated with the socioeconomic and risk management analysis to support the regulation of chemicals.

To help us meet these challenges, we require an economics graduate with experience in the public or private sector to apply their skills as an economic analyst in government, with the attraction of a highly competitive, benefits and development prospects, located in the north of England. You will work in areas such as regulatory economics, cost benefit analysis, non-market valuation, and collaborate with scientists, policy advisors, and operational delivery teams on regulatory issues that matter.

Our Chemical Regulations Division employs around 300 scientific, policy and support staff in York, Bootle and London. Our primary role is to deliver regulatory schemes intended to protect the health of people and the environment, balancing the economic and social benefits that chemicals offer to society and, helping to ensure the safe and sustainable use of chemicals. We also have a role through inspection, guidance, partnership working and leadership to raise awareness and promote behaviour change to help improve the control of hazardous substances in the workplace.  To achieve this and deliver improved regulatory outcomes, we work closely with small and large businesses, and key stakeholders, ranging from industry bodies and multi-national chemical businesses, other government departments (in particular Defra) and other regulators across Europe and internationally.

This is a frontline role where you will need to be able to influence duty holders, identify material breaches of regulations, act to remedy breaches and check compliance with duties defined in a range of chemicals regulations. You will work closely with CRD inspectors to gather evidence for prosecutions and to serve enforcement notices. You will also be expected to work independently upon demonstration of the required competencies.  You will be trained to support HSE’s work with the chemical industries.

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 an experienced Principal Exposure Scientist to join our REACH team. You will be part of a team that is delivering HSE’s objectives in support of the UK’s exit from the European Union. You will have a high level of understanding of worker and consumer exposure to chemicals. This will include having significant knowledge and experience of assessing exposure and human health risks. You will be comfortable working in a multidisciplinary team that includes chemists, toxicologists, ecotoxicologists, and experts in environmental exposure and socio-economic analysis.

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 an experienced Occupational Hygienist to join our REACH team.

You will be part of a team that is delivering HSE’s objectives in support of the UK’s exit from the European Union.

You will be a recognised, appropriately qualified occupational hygienist, comfortable in a multidisciplinary team that includes chemists, toxicologists, ecotoxicologists, and experts in environmental exposure and socio-economic analysis. You will provide expert knowledge and experience of industrial processes, assessing chemicals exposure and appropriate control approaches. The main focus of your work will be to assess applications within the REACH framework for the authorisation of substances of very high concern. A key aspect of this will be forming a perspective on the adequacy of the control measures in place. Additional work is likely to include the evaluation of registration data and contributions to other risk management activity, including the production of proposals to restrict chemicals that pose an unacceptable risk to humans or the environment.