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Diverse perspectives and experiences are critical to our success and we welcome applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role. We look forward to receiving your application.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

A key operational arm of HSE, Energy Division (ED) regulates the UK’s Offshore oil and gas industry, pipelines, mines, diving and renewable power generation. We employ around 140 professional engineers and scientists to do this. Respected internationally for our independent status and integrity, we have a long standing reputation for technical expertise which can be applied logically to deliver effective, proportionate solutions enabling hazardous situations to be managed safely. Offshore safety and the linked environmental protection remain high government priorities.

Fire Explosion and Risk Assessment is essential in the context of managing offshore major accident hazards, where failures can lead to catastrophic harm to workers and the environment. Energy Division has a front line team of Fire Explosion and Risk Assessment Specialist Inspectors who cooperate with colleagues to regulate companies undertaking offshore oil and gas operations or related activities. Their work encompasses:

• safety case assessment,
• inspection,
• investigation,
• enforcement action,
• maintenance of guidance material
• engaging with stakeholders.

You will become part of a team of technical specialists working to help improve safety across a wide range of activities within the UK offshore major hazard industries. You will provide Fire explosion and risk assessment support to IMT inspectors for both planned and reactive work. As part of the specialist team of inspectors you will also engage with a diverse range of stakeholders to keep up to date with new developments and to promulgate HSE expectations within the industry.

For a list of HSE Office locations please see HSE Office Locations

You will be expected to travel to offshore oil and gas installations to work as a member of a team and also to work independently. You will be highly motivated and assertive, inquisitive and a critical thinker. you will be able to engage with colleagues, external stakeholders and at all levels of the duty holder operation.

You will have excellent verbal and written communication skills, be capable of producing accurate and clear written reports to challenging deadlines and have good presentation skills. You must also be computer literate.

You will maintain currency with the latest technical developments in your area of expertise.

As part of your role you will be required to:

• Travel to offshore oil and gas installations to undertake interventions, inspections and investigations as part of a team.
• Assess offshore installation safety cases and their material changes and inspect combined operations notifications and thorough reviews.
• Complete detailed analysis in order to identify safety issues and draft recommendations
• Write and contribute to investigation reports and industry guidance.
• Assist with the development of guidance to support intervention work.

Essential

You must have:

Experience in fire, explosion and related risk assessment/ management and consequence analysis techniques.
Have practical experience within a major hazard industry, preferably the offshore oil and gas industry.

Desirable:
Experience of working in a regulatory environment

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

• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions

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

• Experience of assessing major accident hazards such as hydrocarbon and toxic gas releases, fires, and explosions, including potential escalation routes and different techniques and methods to mitigate against these events in an offshore environment.
• Experience of assessing the effectiveness of maintenance of mitigation measures for reducing escalation from fires and explosions.
• Experience of hazard analysis techniques such as HAZOP, LOPA. SIL, FMEA bowties etc. and their advantages and applicability.
• Broad understanding of consequence modelling techniques and software tools, and their advantages and limitations
• Your understanding of quantitative risk assessment and its use and limitations.
• Qualitative risk management and major accident hazard management.

• 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 27.9%, far more than in the private sector.
• Family friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career
• 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

Allowances:

This post is eligible for Excess Fares Allowance. A successful internal candidate currently based at another office may be entitled to Excess Fares Allowance in line with HSE policy (http://intranet/finance/expenses/excess-fares-allowance-policy.htm)

Hybrid Working Policy:

HSE is committed to introducing hybrid working. The key features of this approach are:

• a range of flexible working options
• work environments that enable the greatest flexibility
• technologies that support the practice and management of hybrid working
• new forms of flexible collaboration that enable people to work together across locations
• culture change to enable greater organisational agility and innovation
• a trust-based culture that focuses on management by results rather than presence

Hybrid working enables employees to work partly in the workplace, (ie the employee’s designated office) and partly at home.

Agreeing to hybrid working arrangements does not affect an employee’s ability to make a formal flexible working request.

This policy does not cover arrangements where the employee is a contractual home worker.

Job contact :

Name :
Mark Royle
Email :
[email protected]
Telephone :
07584402586

Recruitment team :

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