HM Specialist Inspector – Process Safety

HM Specialist Inspector – Process Safety

Basingstoke, Bedford, Birmingham, Cardiff, Chelmsford, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Norwich (with hybrid working and overnight travel up to twice a month)

About Us

The Health and Safety Executive is Britain’s national regulator for workplace health and safety. We’re dedicated to protecting people and places, ensuring everyone can lead safer and healthier lives at work.

We are now looking for five HM Specialist Inspectors to join our Chemicals, Explosives and Microbiological Hazards Division (CEMHD) on a full-time or part-time, permanent basis, working a minimum of 30 hours per week.

The Benefits

- Salary of £50,060 - £61,800 per annum
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- 25 days’ annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays and - 1-day Civil Service privilege leave
- Family-friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career
- Carer-friendly policies to help create a supportive working culture
- Access to a wide range of fantastic benefits, such as the Cycle to Work Scheme, E-Gift Cards, and Vouchers via our partner EdenRed

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Practical Process Safety professional to join our dedicated team and help ensure that workplaces across the UK are operating safely and legally.

In this key role, you will use your technical knowledge and practical experience to influence not only individual employers but entire industry sectors, making a real difference in keeping people safe at work.

So, if you’re looking to take your career to the next level with our prestigious national regulator, read on and apply today!

The Role

As an HM Specialist Inspector, you will help ensure that employers across the UK are working safely by inspecting, investigating, and assessing organisations within the legislative framework.

You’ll work alongside other technical specialists to ensure the safe operation of workplaces, with activities ranging from inspecting chemical processing plants to providing technical assistance in complex investigations.

Additionally, you will:

- Inspect a variety of workplaces to ensure that risks are being actively managed and reduced
- Conduct forensic investigations of process safety-related incidents to identify root causes
- Write technical reports to guide legal decisions and appear as a specialist witness at tribunals, inquests, and prosecutions
- Collaborate to influence long-term compliance with the law

About You

To be considered as an HM Specialist Inspector, you will need:

- Practical Process Safety experience in the design and operation of industrial-scale chemical processing plants and/or onshore downstream oil industry processing
- Experience in hazard identification and risk assessment techniques, such as HAZOPs
- A degree in Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, or a similar subject relevant to Chemical Engineering
- Chartered Membership or Chartered Fellowship of the Institution of Chemical Engineers or the Royal Society of Chemistry, or the qualifications necessary to apply for and achieve Chartered status within 2 years of appointment
- A full, valid driving licence

The closing date for this role is 23rd September 2024.

A virtual Q&A session will be held on Tuesday 10th September at 12pm, please email process.safety.recruitment@hse.gov.uk if you would like to attend and you will be sent a link.

Other organisations may call this role Process Safety Inspector, Senior Process Safety Engineer, or Process Safety Specialist.

Webrecruit and the Health and Safety Executive are equal opportunities employers, value diversity, and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business, and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

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