Fluid Dynamics Specialist

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

- 411055

**Salary**:

- £36,235 - £39,611
- Standard
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer
- Band 4

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- HSE - Science Division (SD)

**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery
Science

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- Buxton

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is Britain’s national regulator for workplace health and safety. We are dedicated to protecting people and places and helping everyone lead safer and healthier lives.

HSE's Science Division is a world-leading provider of health and safety solutions to industry and government. Our Science and Research Centre, based in Buxton, Derbyshire, is the heart of our scientific and technical capability, where the most creative and innovative scientists and engineers can come together to address some of the biggest challenges on the national agenda.

The scope of our work requires a diversity of talented individuals, and our capabilities encompass a wide range of topics including fire, explosion, process safety and engineering; occupational and environmental health; risk assessment; work environment; and specialist photographic and analytical services. This breadth of expertise underpins our strength in creating multidisciplinary teams to support HSE’s work on major incident investigations and policy and regulatory development, as well as undertaking high quality research.

**Working pattern**

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 per week.

**Travel**

At HSE, we are proud to be able to offer our people the opportunity to work in a hybrid way which combines working from home and the office. The office is in a rural location with no direct public transport What3words:///safely.rules.eclipses. There will be a requirement to travel to the office on a regular basis for various activities e.g. accessing computing facilities, collaborative working, supporting and training colleagues. Please note that if you are successful, hybrid working will be discussed prior to taking up the post.

As part of this role there will be some occasional UK and international travel required; this may include travelling for meetings and events.

**Job description**:
The work carried out by the team is project-based and can vary greatly in nature. Projects may be internally or externally funded, research or support projects, or incident investigations. There is a strong emphasis on team working and collaboration, and you will be expected to work with specialists and technical experts across many other disciplines.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Report the outcomes of scientific work through writing reports and papers, presentations and providing verbal feedback to customers
- Liaise and collaborate with colleagues in other parts of HSE to support multi-disciplinary teams to offer the best possible service to customers
- Manage your time and resources within your control to ensure that projects are completed to time and cost
- Contribute to the development of future work for the Team by providing ideas and technical input to bids
- Take personal responsibility for ensuring that your training and development are aligned with business objectives

**Person specification**:
**Essential Skills and Criteria**:

- Good communication skills, including report writing and presenting to customers
- Ability to work with scientists from a range of disciplines
- Experience of using numerical programming tools such as Python or Matlab

**Qualifications**:

- A Degree in a relevant numerate discipline (a field of study that involves a significant amount of mathematics)

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £36,235, Health and Safety Executive contributes £10,497 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

**We invest in our people with**:

- Competitive rates of pay
- Access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme to which HSE contribute 28.9% - far more than in the private sector
- Family friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career
- Carer friendly policies to help create a supportive working culture
- 25 days annua