Building Safety & Risk Management at Health & Safety Executive
Job Description
Location: Buxton, Derbyshire
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.
The new Building Safety Regulator (BSR) sits within HSE and is responsible for implementing a new regulatory regime and strategy for higher-risk residential buildings in England. The BSR oversees the safety and performance of the wider built environment, driving cultural change and increasing the competence of the building control profession.
We are now looking for two Senior Research Scientists to join our Risk Team at our Science and Research Centre in Buxton on a full-time, permanent basis.
The Benefits
– Salary of £40,788 – £46,783 per annum
– 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays and Civil Service privilege leave
– Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27.1%
– Flexible working options
– Family-friendly policies and working hours
– Competitive parental leave benefits
– Carer-friendly policies to help create a supportive working culture
– Learning and development tailored to your role
This is an outstanding opportunity for an engineering, architecture, construction management, building surveying, building control or building safety professional with research or technical project experience to advance their career with our ground-breaking organisation.
You will have the chance to join a vibrant team and deliver cutting-edge, challenging projects, activities and consultancy work that support safer buildings and workplaces throughout the country.
What’s more, you will be able to get involved with other areas of work such as innovative NetZero hydrogen and carbon capture technologies, aerospace technology, energy infrastructure and developments in nuclear fusion and other high-hazard industries.
The Role
As a Senior Research Scientist, you will be primarily focused on delivering research to support the BSR through research and scientific evidence that will help prevent building failures in future.
Specifically, you will deliver high quality research that focuses on building safety and risk management. You will publish papers and conference presentations in order to improve and broaden our scientific reputation whilst also helping to improve the public understanding of building risk.
Reviewing and evaluating technical evidence, you will undertake risk assessments and safety casework to support regulatory developments. You will also develop technical solutions and support workshops for risk evaluation and management.
Additionally, you will:
– Develop relationships across HSE to enable the development and use of scientific methods to support building safety
– Work with regulatory bodies to support a consistent approach to risk
– Provide technical and scientific leadership or steering for various projects and initiatives
– Update HSE risk guidance
About You
To be considered as a Senior Research Scientist, you will need practical experience and knowledge of at least one of the following areas:
– Engineering (civil, structural, fire or environmental)
– Architecture
– Construction management
– Building surveying
– Building control
– Building safety
You will also need the following:
– Experience of successfully planning and delivering research or technical projects to time, cost and quality targets
– Competency in facilitating workshops and/or studies with a diverse range of stakeholders
– Excellent communication skills and experience of technical project writing and presenting
– The ability to work with scientists and professionals from a range of disciplines
– A Masters or PhD in a relevant area
The closing date for this role is the 22nd January 2024.
Other organisations may call this role Research Specialist, Research Project Manager, Technical Project Manager, Engineering Research Manager, Building Safety Research Manager, Research Scientist, or Research Associate.
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.
So, if you’re ready to make a positive impact on building safety as a Senior Research Scientist, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.
