Senior Fire Scientist/Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Fire Scientist to join our Fire and Thermofluids Team in the Major Hazards Group.

Your role will be largely focused on research and testing programmes concerned with fire safety and protection measures across industry (typically construction, offshore, warehousing, and mining sectors).

This is an excellent opportunity to use your knowledge and skills to contribute to innovative work and consultancy advice to support the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) including the newly formed Building Safety Regulator, which will directly lead to maintaining standards and improvements in safety.

Principal Registered Gas Engineer

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

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

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Administrator

We are looking for a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Administrator to join our Data Management and Spatial Analysis Team (DMSA) in HSE’s Analysis and Data Group. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to contribute to valuable operational and scientific projects, providing services and undertaking research and analysis to support HSE’s regulation and enforcement duties.

The team’s work areas include demographics, geographical risk modelling and land use planning, for both internal HSE stakeholders and external commercial customers. You will be part of a team of GIS specialists and there will be opportunities to collaborate with technical experts across many other disciplines.

User Administrator

We are looking for someone to join our existing Service Management Team as a User Administrator. This position provides an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic role at the core of HSE’s Service Management Processes.

As a User Administrator you will achieve a high level of customer satisfaction in IT Services, IT User Administration and Access Management.

You will establish, achieve and maintain Service Standards for IT User Administration and Access Management.

You will ensure user accounts are established, changed and deleted swiftly, efficiently and effectively to support business requirements.

Software Developer

As part of an internal development function within HSE’s Information Technology and Facilities Division, you will join a team responsible for the development, testing and support of HSE applications. The applications are hosted on a number of technologies (e.g. Ingres; SQL) and developed using a variety of tools (e.g. OPEN Road; .NET; C#; SharePoint; HTML5).

HSE’s IT Services are currently undergoing a modernisation and we are about to get started on significant IT enabled Business Transformation. We are reinforcing in-house capability to give us the skills and experience we need to take our ambitious business plans forward.

This post provides a challenging opportunity for a junior system developer to develop their career and expand our development capability. Working in a small, technically skilled, development team consisting of a senior developer and 4 developers, you will develop and enhance small line of business applications.

Software Development Manager

We are looking for a Software Development Manager to join our existing IT Information Systems Team.

Information, Technology and Facilities (ITF) Division plays a key role for the whole of HSE. We support HSE in delivering its commitments in its current annual plan and its long-term objectives. As a Division, we are responsible for the delivery of key operational services that support HSE in delivering its regulatory, science and commercial objectives. These operational services include Information Technology (IT), Information Management (IM) and Facilities Management (FM) Services.

You will join the existing IT Information Systems Team as Software Development Manager, responsible for a team of Software Developers. You will establish and embed Application Development best practice principles and help to continually improve the service. This position provides an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic role at the core of HSE’s Information Systems processes.

Construction Engineering Specialist

We are looking for a Construction Engineering specialist to join our Construction Team.

Our Civil and Structural Engineers help to ensure employers across Great Britain in a range of essential industries work safely. In this role, you can utilise your technical knowledge and practical experience to influence not only individual employers but whole industry sectors.

You’ll work alongside other technical specialists to ensure the work activities of those we regulate are operating within the legislative framework by inspecting, investigating, and assessing companies.

Your work with HSE will make the most of your experience – whether that’s evaluating the guidance being given to the emergency services in a rescue situation after an incident, identifying the cause of a structural collapse or providing technical assistance to colleagues undertaking complex investigations into serious incidents involving plant and equipment. This role will broaden your knowledge and challenge your engineering skills.

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Technician

We are looking for a Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Technician to join our Data Management and Spatial Analysis Team (DMSA) in the Analysis and Data Group.

This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to contribute to valuable operational and scientific projects, providing services and undertaking research and analysis to support HSE’s regulation and enforcement duties. The team’s work areas include demographics, geographical risk modelling and land use planning, for both internal HSE stakeholders and external commercial customers.

You will work mainly with your team colleagues but there will be opportunities to collaborate with technical experts across many other disciplines.

Human Factors Specialist (generalist including human error and performance influencing factors)

In HSE Science Division we use research methodologies to provide pragmatic guidance and advice to solve current and future needs and are 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 breadth of expertise underpins our particular strength in creating multidisciplinary teams to support major incident investigations and policy development, as well as undertaking research, providing expert consultancy support and performing site investigations.

We are looking for scientists in the field of human factors with experience of applying their knowledge in industry to join our Risk and Human Factors Group. 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.

Engineering Materials Scientist – 2 Year Fixed Term Appointment

We are looking for a scientist to join our Engineering Materials Team in the Major Hazards Group. This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to contribute to valuable HSE and industry research projects to directly improve the lives of people in their workplaces and be part of a team developing a new technology area for our organisation.

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

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.