Specialist Inspector – Human Factors Engineering

Within Chemical, Explosives and Microbiological Hazards Division (CEMHD), Human Factors (HF) Specialists ensure employers across Great Britain work safely, protecting people and places. In this role, you can utilise your technical HF knowledge and experience to influence not only individual employers but whole industry sectors – you get the reward of making a difference and doing work that actually saves lives.

Although the core part of your work will be in regulating onshore major hazards industries, such as chemicals and explosives the role will also allow you to apply your skills across a diverse range of industries including manufacturing and utilities, as well as new technologies, gig economy and net zero projects.

The role will give you the chance to collaborate with technical specialists from multiple other disciplines, e.g., mechanical engineering and process safety, allowing you ample opportunities for continuous professional development in a diverse and stimulating environment.

The role of Specialist Inspector in HF will allow you to:

Undertake HF inspections, applying your experience and knowledge to identify risk and underlying issues on site, enabling you to make effective decisions on the adequacy of existing control measures. You will have the opportunity to persuade, influence and enforce at all levels to achieve compliance with the law.

Assess the adequacy of safety reports for upper tier COMAH sites, both for new sites and where modifications to a site are planned.

Play an integral part of investigation teams working across industry to seek out accident and incident root causes and identify recommendations to ensure that lessons are learned.

Act as an expert witness, giving your specialist opinion on HF aspects of accidents and incidents.

Contribute to the production and revision of HF guidance and standards for HSE and other industry bodies.

Prioritise continuing professional development, both technically, and in non-technical skills and be able to partake in cross division HF training and coaching.

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Head Of Change

The Head of Change and Business Improvement is a senior leader in HSE’s Operational Service Division (OSD). OSD is responsible for HSE’s change, business and digital transformation, project management support, and Portfolio Management Office, in addition to supporting front-line delivery operations.

We play a key role in delivering HSE’s Change Portfolio, working with blended teams of permanent staff, contractors, and partner resources. We need to build upon and further develop our existing in-house capability to ensure we have the right skills and experience to deliver our ambitious plans.

Reporting to the Deputy Director of Transformation, and working alongside Heads of Change responsible for Project Management and the Transformation Office, this post provides a challenging opportunity for an experienced change leader to lead the profession—building capability to help implement our ambitious roadmap for business transformation. A critical part of the role is acting as a senior change lead across HSE, driving best practice throughout the organisation to build knowledge and optimise delivery.

The successful candidate will play a key role in maturing and enhancing our approach, methodologies, frameworks, and ways of working. They will collaborate closely with fellow leaders across the division to ensure that change activities are appropriately resourced, governed, managed, and successfully delivered. This includes identifying cross-cutting themes, common components, and critical organisational dependencies—working with the Deputy Director to define the appropriate approach for their delivery and management.

We are looking for an inspirational, confident, and empowering leader who can effectively promote collaborative working across teams and achieve impact through others. You will be able to see the big picture, identify opportunities for change and business improvement, set priorities, and make trade-offs between the strategic and the pragmatic—while also adopting different tactical approaches. This is a senior leadership post, and you must demonstrate a strong personal commitment to being an active, critical, and visible presence within the Division and more widely across HSE.

Stakeholder Engagement Support FTC up to 9 mths

This is a high profile position in the team with responsibility for helping set and drive delivery of BSR’s communication strategy.

We are currently looking for a Stakeholder Engagement Support Officer to work on building safety communications for a fixed term appointment of up to 9 months.

Senior Registered Gas Engineer

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

Digital Learning Specialist

This role sits within HSE’s Human Resources Division (HRD) and will be part of the wider HRD Organisational Development team. This is a great opportunity for a digital learning professional to work closely with the Head of Digital Learning and other members of the team to identify learning and development needs through a range of activities, networks and regular consultation with project and business stakeholders. As part of the Organisational Development team, you will work collaboratively and with pace across HR and divisions to ensure HSE continues to build high-quality, engaging and interactive digital learning.

It is an exciting time to join the team, HSE has made significant investments in tools and technology not only for the digital learning team but all colleagues across HSE with access to modern devices, software and development. HSE has selected a new Learning Management System (LMS) supplier along with various authoring tools. The implementation of the LMS and these tools is a key priority, and this role will play a crucial part in supporting this.

Senior DevOps Engineer

We have an opportunity to recruit two Senior DevOps Engineers to join the DevOps Team in the ITS Division. The DevOps Team comprises of internal and outsourced capabilities. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will thrive and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on one or many projects. You will be supporting existing cloud-based services, assisting in the design, and delivery of new cloud-based services as we expand HSE’s digital services in Azure, adhering to GDS principles and using Agile principles.

Key Responsibilities:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will help to develop the capability of HSEs newly formed multi-skilled DevOps Team to manage the technologies of a cloud-based IT estate.
You will help establish and then operate DevOps processes, establishing a regime and culture of continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD).
You will work closely with the development and test communities as we strive to automate our processes and implement new tooling.
You will support the design, implementation and management of solutions that are highly available, resilient, scalable and maintainable within our cloud environment.
You will deliver the DevOps Engineering support to major digital and technology services change programmes transforming HSE.

Senior Strategic Engagement Manager

Sitting within the Strategic Engagement team, this role is ideally suited to someone with excellent judgement and understanding of the impact stakeholders can have on an organisation.

We are looking for a person who can use a variety of different communication skills and has a level of specialist knowledge in External Affairs.

As a dynamic and creative person, you will help to shape the way we communicate with external stakeholders on key priority work areas outlined in HSE’s strategy.

Investigations Team Manager

Within our Building Safety Division (BSD) we are looking to recruit two Investigations Team Manager. These roles are within our Investigation unit, which is part of the higher-risk building operational function. You will be responsible for leading a team of Investigators / Regulators carrying out a wide range of regulatory investigations and criminal prosecutions.

As an Investigation Team Manager you will be providing leadership and management to the Senior Investigators, Disclosure Officers, Field Intelligence Officers and their teams. You will ensure the team provide Residents with appropriate support throughout the investigations process, and any risks that they may be subjected to is identified and managed effectively, as well as maintaining the quality and consistency of the investigatory approach to ensure fair and effective decision-making.

You will be responsible for keeping senior leaders informed about the range, complexity, balance of work and workloads to aid effective workload management across the team. This will include maximising outcomes with the available resource, working efficiently and ensuring staff perform effectively during challenging and changing time.

A key aspect of this role will be to lead and Inspire others, through the demonstration of inclusive leadership behaviours in line with the Civil Service Leadership Statement. You will Provide coaching support to develop investigatory skills.

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End User Computing Engineer

You will assist in leading the End User Computing (EUC) Team and occasionally deputise for the Senior EUC Engineer.

You will help to manage the HSE’s End User Computing estate (Tablets/laptops/PCs, virtual desktop, Microsoft Teams rooms and smartphones), ensuring that the EUC environment remains available, performant to SLAs/OLAs and relevant to business requirements.

The purpose of this role is to:

Monitor the EUC environment, investigate incidents, resolve problems, and develop and apply fixes and changes.
Deliver upgrades, implement new functionality and seek to continuously improve the EUC environment to support the organisation in better ways.
Ensure that the EUC environment remains secure, protecting HSE’s data and users from cyber-attack and unauthorised loss.
Engage with users, supporting their needs and ensuring that a high quality, customer-focused service is delivered.

Mechanical Engineer (Engineering Incident Investigator)

This exciting opportunity is based in the Science Division of the HSE at our research laboratory and unique outdoor testing facilities in Buxton, Derbyshire.

HSE’s Science Division is 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 vacancy is for an engineer 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.

As part of your role you will:

Support incident investigations, including fatalities, working with other agencies such as the Police and attending incident sites as appropriate. This will involve travel and overnight stays away from home.
Support the development of research and testing work by assisting towards the development of work proposals and presentation of technical solutions to both technical and non-technical staff inside and outside HSE.
Write or contributw to technical reports in relation to incident, research or testing.
Produce expert witness statements and, presenting expert evidence in court.