Fluid Flow Modeller

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

- 385228

**Salary**:

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

**Job grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer

**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

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Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
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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.

Our role goes beyond worker protection to include public assurance. We work to ensure people feel safe where they live, where they work and, in their environment. Great Britain’s health and safety record is the envy of much of the world. Central to this is our work to protect people by managing risk in a proportionate and effective way, supporting innovation and increasing productivity.

This post will be based in the Science Division of the HSE at our Science and Research Centre in Buxton, Derbyshire. 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.

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 particular strength in creating multidisciplinary teams to support major incident investigations and policy 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 28 hours per week.

**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.

**Travel**

As part of this role there will be some occasional travel required, this will include travelling for meetings and events. Full notice will be provided if successful in post when this will occur.

**Person specification**:
**You will be able to**:

- Report the outcomes of scientific work through writing reports and papers, presentations and providing verbal feedback to customers
- Liaise 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

**Essential skills**:

- Good communication skills, including report writing and presenting to customers
- Ability to work with scientists from a range of disciplines

**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 annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays and 1-day Civil Service privilege leave
- Parental leave benefits
- As a member of HSE you will gain access to a wide range of fantastic benefits that you can take advantage of such as the Cycle to Work Scheme, E-Gift Cards and Vouchers via our partner EdenRed

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**Selection process details**:

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