Specialist Inspector – Offshore Process Engineering

Specialist Inspector – Offshore Process Engineering
Aberdeen, Ashford (Kent), Basingstoke, Birmingham, Bootle, Bristol, Buxton, Cardiff, Carlisle, Carmarthen, Chelmsford, Crewe, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Leeds, Milton Keynes, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxted, Plymouth, Sheffield, Wrexham, or York

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.

We are now looking for two individuals from offshore process engineering backgrounds to retrain as Specialist Inspectors and join us on a full-time, permanent basis.

The Benefits

- Salary of £73,335 - £77,003
- This role currently attracts an offshore market supplement up to a maximum of £10,000, which is non-pensionable and non-consolidated. It is subject to review annually in HSE’s October pay offer
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
- 25 days’ annual holiday increasing to 30 days after five years' service, plus bank holidays and 1-day Civil Service privilege leave
- Family-friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career
- Carer-friendly policies to help create a supportive working culture
- Access to a wide range of fantastic benefits, such as the Cycle to Work Scheme, E-Gift Cards, and Vouchers via our partner EdenRed
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- Flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

This is a fantastic opportunity for offshore process engineering professionals to refocus their careers and take on an inspector role with our essential organisation.

You’ll be supported through a Specialist Training Programme (STP) to gain the skills and expertise required to become a safety inspector. Combining structured learning with practical experience, the programme will equip you to operate confidently within your specialist area.

From day one, you’ll be supported to get up to speed and build confidence in your role, with guidance from your manager, team and colleagues across HSE. You’ll also benefit from

ongoing professional development, with access to structured training and the expertise of those around you.

The Role

As a Specialist Inspector, after completing our Specialist Training Programme, you will help to regulate offshore oil and gas operations by providing inspections and assessments of offshore facilities.

Focusing on the management of major accident hazards associated with process plant, you will operate in a frontline capacity, assessing how risk is managed and ensuring that workers and the wider public are protected.

You will contribute to improvements across the sector, working as part of a multidisciplinary team, and applying your technical expertise to inspections, investigations and regulatory decision-making.

Additionally, you will:

- Assess safety cases, undertake inspections and determine enforcement actions
- Support investigations of incidents and complaints
- Prepare technical reports
- Provide expert evidence for legal proceedings
- Offer specialist advice on process safety

Please note, enrolment in the Specialist Training Programme (STP) is a legal requirement that you will be required to study for and successfully complete.

About You

To be considered as a Specialist Inspector, you will need:

- Practical experience and knowledge (equivalent to the role of Process Technical Authority) gained in an operational offshore oil and gas production environment
- Experience of leading or supporting investigations into incidents or high-potential events
- An understanding of relevant engineering codes, standards and industry guidance
- An understanding of plant and process design, including the hierarchy of control
- An understanding of the safe operation of plant, including maintenance activities
- An understanding of hazard identification and assessment techniques, such as HAZOP and LOPA
- An understanding of risk assessment and risk management tools

- An understanding of process safety management and associated frameworks
- A Chemical Engineering degree
- Membership of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and Chartered Engineer (CEng) status
- A full, valid driving licence

Please note, this role involves travel, with an average of 2-3 night stays, 6-8 times per year.

The closing date for this role is 25th May 2026.

Other organisations may call this role Offshore Process Safety Specialist, Offshore Safety Engineer, Major Hazards Engineer, Process Safety Advisor, or Process Safety Consultant.

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 apply your expertise in a new way and take the next step in your career as a Specialist Inspector, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.
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