HM Specialist Inspector – Process Safety (CEMHD Band 3/SEO)

HSE Health and Safety Executive; Milton Keynes, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Part time

Job summary

Join HSE as a Specialist Inspector of Process Safety, where you'll leverage your technical expertise to regulate major hazard industries. This role involves inspecting diverse workplaces, conducting forensic investigations, and influencing safety standards across sectors. Enjoy flexible part-time working patterns while making a significant impact on health and safety practices.

Benefits

Continuing professional development

Specialist Training Programme

Qualifications

• Considerable technical knowledge and practical experience in process safety.
• Experience in inspecting and assessing workplace safety.
• Ability to write technical reports and provide expert opinions.

Responsibilities

• Inspect various workplaces to ensure risks are managed and reduced.
• Conduct forensic investigations into process safety incidents.
• Write technical reports to guide legal decisions.
• Appear as a specialist witness at tribunals and inquests.

Skills

Technical knowledge

Forensic investigation

Report writing

Regulatory compliance

Job description

Do you have a curious mind about how processes across many different industries work, and a genuine interest in regulating to protect people where they live and work? If so, then this is the perfect role for you!

As a Specialist Inspector of Process Safety, you will be an essential part of the work that CEMHD do. You will use your technical knowledge and expertise to regulate major hazard industries and to influence whole sectors to improve health and safety standards, thereby helping to prevent catastrophic accidents.

The part-time working patterns that can be supported are: 4 days a week, 9-day fortnights and term time working, although some flexibility is needed during the first 2 years due to training, with advanced notice.

Job description

Our Specialist Inspectors of Process Safety help to ensure employers across Great Britain – a whole range of essential industries – 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.

A career with HSE gives you a rare opportunity to inspect and interact with different and diverse employers and work activities. One day you could be inspecting in a large petrochemical complex and the next investigating an accident at a wood working business.

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 organisations.

Your work with HSE will make the most of your experience – whether that’s inspecting a chemical processing plant, assessing a company’s safety report or providing technical assistance to colleagues undertaking complex investigations into serious incidents.

Responsibilities:

• Inspect a variety of workplaces, either on your own or with a specialist team, to make sure that risks are being actively managed and reduced, driving improvements, and gaining commitment to comply with the law.
• Forensic investigation of process safety related incidents to identify the root cause and where necessary, direct the technical aspect of the investigation, calling in other specialist support and supporting legal action to prevent a recurrence.
• Write technical reports to explain your specialist opinion to guide legal decisions.
• Appear as specialist witness at tribunals, inquests and prosecutions.

From day one, you will be supported by your manager, team and wider colleagues to understand and develop in your role in HSE.We support your continuing professional development directly through training and through stakeholder support and steering. Whilst working for the HSE and in order to fully understand the legal and enforcement requirements of this role, you will develop your expertise by completing the Specialist Training Programme (STP). This includes a mixture of e-learning, virtual tutorials, face to face workshops and a requirement for you to complete a legal assessment. After this training, you’ll then have wider learning opportunities through your Civil Service access.

The role will include travel 1-2 times a month for inspections across the UK.