Hm Specialist Inspector

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 303143**Salary**:

- £55,808 - £59,993**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HSE - Chemical Explosives & Microbiological Hazards Division (CEMHD) - CEMHD Unit 6 - Process Safety**Type of role**:

- Health and Safety
- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Term time working**Number of jobs available**:

- 6Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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- Basingstoke, Bedford, Birmingham, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle-upon-TyneAbout the job

**Job summary**:
At HSE, we work with one goal in mind - to help keep Britain’s workforce safe and healthy. Our work touches virtually every sector of Great Britain’s industry. Combining specialists from numerous fields, we strive to keep people and their working environments safe.

We don’t just inspect workplaces and implement the law, we campaign for better H&S practice, we craft and review guidance and regulations, we provide specialist products and services both here and overseas, and we produce crucial research and statistics - all towards our goal of helping Great Britain work well.

Chemicals, Explosives and Microbiological Hazards Division (CEMHD) is responsible for the GB-wide regulation of onshore major hazard premises and installations as well as the chemicals manufacturing sector as a whole. This involves regulatory interventions in workplaces, engaging with key industry stakeholders and providing assurance to Government and the public that major accident risks are being properly managed.

The sectors we regulate in CEMHD are essential to the country’s economy and social infrastructure, but they often involve hazardous substances and processes with potential for catastrophic accidents. The purpose of CEMHD is to make sure that the businesses that present a risk of such catastrophic events are managing those risks properly.

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.

**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 visit 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.

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

The physical ability to walk around an industrial process plant is essential for this role.

Part time working hours are available for this role. We can accept part time applicants who can commit to working a minimum of 30 hours (4 days) per week.

**This role is mostly remote working with travel 1-2 times a month for inspections across the UK. Attendance in an office is normally once a week. 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.**

**Person specification**:
**Key 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.

Given that HSE regulates sites across the whole of GB you will be expected to spend short periods working away from home which will include overnight stays. This will typically be 1-2 nights a month, bu