Senior Process Safety Specialist

Senior Process Safety Specialist
Buxton, Derbyshire (with hybrid working)

About Us

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) 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 a Senior Process Safety Specialist to join us on a full-time, permanent basis. 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.

The Benefits

- Salary of £55,063 - £66,338 per annum
- Competitive Civil Service pension scheme with employer contributions of over 28.97%
- 25 days’ annual leave, increasing to 30 after five years, plus bank holidays and 1-day Civil Service privilege leave
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- Flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- Family-friendly policies and working hours to support work-life balance
- Parental leave benefits
- Access to a range of benefits, including Cycle to Work Scheme, E-Gift Cards, and vouchers via Edenred

This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced process safety professional with deep expertise in high-hazard risk assessment and technical project delivery to join our nationally important organisation.

You’ll have the scope to apply your expertise across some of the most complex and emerging areas of process safety whilst deepening your technical profile and contributing to decisions that help protect people, industry and the wider public.

What’s more, you’ll benefit from flexible and hybrid working, the option to work part-time hours, and an outstanding Civil Service pension within this senior role that offers both meaningful impact and genuine work-life balance.

So, if you’re ready to put your process safety expertise at the heart of work that helps manage risk across Britain’s highest-hazard industries, read on and apply today.

The Role

As a Senior Process Safety Specialist, you will apply your process safety expertise and risk assessment techniques to help manage risks across high-hazard industries.

You will deliver quantitative and qualitative technical risk assessments, lead process safety studies and workshops, and undertake consequence modelling to inform risk-based decision-making.

Utilising your expertise, you will support work across areas such as hydrogen, carbon capture, utilisation and storage, process design, pressure relief, safety equipment and other risk reduction measures.

Additionally, you will:

- Contribute to research, regulatory and policy development, technical safety consultancy and major incident investigations
- Lead and facilitate HAZID, bow tie analysis, SWIFT, DSEAR and FMEA studies
- Work collaboratively with specialists and technical experts across HSE
- Communicate outcomes of scientific work clearly to customers
- Produce scientific and technical reports, papers and presentations

About You

To be considered as a Senior Process Safety Specialist, you will need:

- Demonstrable experience with process safety topic areas such as process design, pressure relief sizing, safety equipment, risk reduction measures and participating in or leading hazard identification and risk assessment studies
- An in-depth understanding of process safety and risk management methodologies for high hazard industries with significant experience of applying these within an industrial, research or regulatory setting
- Experience of applying quantitative and semi-quantitative risk assessment methods, including QRA, consequence assessment and evaluation of risk reduction measures
- Practical experience of consequence modelling, including critically interpreting and communicating the results
- Proven experience leading the delivery of scientific or technical projects
- Developed communication skills, including technical or scientific report writing and presenting to customers
- A Higher degree (master’s or above) or equivalent within a Science & Engineering topic or equivalent industry experience

Travel

Our office is in a rural location with no direct public transport. There will be a requirement to travel to the office on a regular basis for various activities, e.g. collaborative working, supporting and training colleagues. As part of this role, there will be some occasional UK and international travel required; this may include travelling for meetings and events.

The closing date for this role is midday on 2nd September 2026.

Other organisations may call this role Senior Process Safety Engineer, Senior Process Safety Consultant, Process Risk Specialist, Process Risk Engineer, Technical Safety Engineer, Senior Risk Engineer, Major Hazards Specialist, or Major Hazards Engineer.

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.

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