Pay and Reward Lead

The Pay and Reward manager role provides a great opportunity for you to work with us to develop innovate solutions in this area – and we’re looking for someone who can appreciate the current climate in the public sector.

You will be the point of contact with our parent department, DWP, together with HM Treasury and Cabinet Office as necessary, understanding the wider picture of Civil Service pay and reward and negotiating our annual pay award and pay strategies.

You’ll be responsible for ensuring the pay strategy meets the needs of the business and is delivered accurately and on time; and provide innovative and fresh solutions to our pay challenges. Working closely with senior leaders and HR colleagues, you will develop options and proposals and present these at senior management meetings.

We’ll also look to you to help us develop HSE’s long-term reward strategy to attract and retain talent and reward great performance, whilst working within HM Treasury guidance and principles.

Finally, you will manage our current pay policies and procedures, evaluating and reviewing where needed, so that they continue to support HSE’s business needs.

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Battery Research Scientist – 18 months Fixed Term Appointment

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 a scientist/engineer to join our Hazardous Materials Team in the Major Hazards Group, specifically to work in the area of battery safety and battery testing. 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.

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Explosives Safety Specialist

A career with HSE gives you a rare opportunity to visit and interact with different and diverse employers and work activities, one day you could be engaging with a large multi-national munitions manufacturer and the next a small fireworks store.

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.

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. As you can see this role will broaden your knowledge and your professional credibility like no other role can.

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Electrical Engineer

We are looking for an electrical engineer with the depth and breadth of experience to join our mechanical & electrical engineering team in the Major Hazards Group.

This is an excellent opportunity to use your skills to contribute to innovative work to support HSE incident investigations, assessments and valuable HSE and industry research projects to directly improve the safety of people in their workplaces.

You can expect to contribute to a diverse range of projects within the health and safety sector, and to be involved in both commercial testing/assessment and regulatory incident investigation work. You will be part of a team of specialists and will also collaborate with technical experts across many other disciplines. You will be expected to attend incident sites across the UK at short notice, and some overnight stays will be required.

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Naval Architect and Marine Specialist

Respected internationally for our independent status and integrity, we have a long-standing reputation for regulatory expertise which can be applied logically to deliver effective, proportionate regulation of these industries.

This role involves regulating companies involved in offshore oil and gas operations and related activities and will sit in a team of specialist inspectors who regulate Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering aspects for floating offshore installations, particularly FPSO/FSU and Semi-Submersible units.

For this particular role, we are looking for a professional with experience of Marine Engineering in the offshore oil and gas industry, who has the knowledge and understanding of the design, installation, operation and maintenance of Marine Engineering related matters for floating units to achieve and maintain safety in the offshore oil and gas environment. Knowledge and understanding of Naval Architecturally related matters is also desirable.

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Occupational Hygiene Specialist Inspector

Our team of occupational hygiene specialists work in a wide range of industries with thousands of workers. This role provides a unique opportunity to apply your technical knowledge and practical experience, influencing whole industry sectors as well as helping individual employers understand the right controls to have in place. Contributing to policy development and industry guidelines will broaden your knowledge and your professional credibility like no other role can. You will see a clear line of sight between your input and reducing ill-health in the workplace.

This is a hugely varied and rewarding role. Whilst there are technical challenges to overcome, you will be working with many different people at every level and every part of your work will be geared to achieving one goal: protecting people’s health and safety at work.

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Electrical Power Systems Specialist

A key operational arm of HSE, Chemicals, Explosives and Microbiological Hazards Division(CEMHD) regulates the UK’s major hazard industries – companies whose products are essential to our everyday life, but where failures in safety management and risk control can lead to catastrophic harm to workers and the public at large. We are responsible for securing safety across a range of industries including; energy production (oil, gas and emerging technologies), chemical/pharmaceutical production and storage and mines, explosives and pipelines.

Your main responsibility is to address potential major accident hazards in relation to Electrical Engineering in onshore major hazard installations, which includes oil refineries, oil and gas storage, chemicals production, and some nuclear sites.

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Mechanical Engineering Group Leader Principal Specialist

Our regulatory responsibilities cover a wide range of industries across Great Britain from SME’s to major global companies.

As the leader of the North or South group you will lead and manage mechanical engineering specialist inspectors, who investigate accidents, inspect from a mechanical engineering perspective, equipment and systems of work, investigate product safety matters and provide factual and expert evidence in Criminal Courts, Coroners Inquests and Fatal Accident Inquiries.

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Human Factors Specialist

Our Human Factors Specialists ensure employers across Great Britain work safely – touching on a whole range of essential industries with thousands of workers. In this role, you can utilise your considerable technical knowledge and practical experience to influence not only individual employers but whole industry sectors.

A career with HSE gives you a rare opportunity to visit and interact with different and diverse employers and work activities – one day you could be working in a large petrochemical complex and the next in a fairground or a hospital x-ray department.

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Naval Architect and Marine Specialist

Energy Division’s role is the effective regulation of the UK’s Offshore Oil and Gas, pipelines, mines, diving and renewable power generation industries. Respected internationally for our independent status and integrity, we have a long-standing reputation for regulatory expertise which can be applied logically to deliver effective, proportionate regulation of these industries.

This role involves regulating companies involved in offshore oil and gas operations and related activities and will sit in a team of specialist inspectors who regulate Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering aspects for floating offshore installations, particularly FPSO/FSU and Semi-Submersible units.

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