Principal Risk & Process Safety Scientist

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 Principal Risk & Process Safety Scientist to join us on a permanent, full-time or part-time basis, working a minimum of 22 hours per week.

The Benefits

- Salary of £68,381 - £78,577 per annum
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
- 25 days’ annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 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
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

This is a fantastic opportunity for an individual with significant experience in risk management concepts for industrial applications, as well as facilitating hazard and risk workshops/studies to join our renowned organisation.

You will discover an array of unparalleled benefits, including flexible working, enabling you to balance your professional ambitions, with your personal commitments.

What’s more, you will gain access to cutting-edge research and innovation, where your expertise will contribute to influencing the future of safety in emerging and established industries.

So, if you’re ready to make a real difference, read on and apply today!

The Role

As a Principal Risk & Process Safety Scientist, you will play a leading role in delivering cutting-edge, challenging research, support and consultancy for risk and process safety topic areas.

Specifically, you will oversee research projects aimed at expanding knowledge and enhancing capabilities relevant to HSE’s current and/or emerging needs.

You will build networks within your area of technical expertise to promote and develop collaborative projects, as well as create technical solutions and facilitate workshops for risk identification and management of existing and emerging risks.

Evaluating safety cases and technical evidence to support regulatory aspects, you will work closely with government regulatory bodies to ensure a unified and robust approach to risk concepts and their implementation.

Additionally, you will:

- Provide expertise at cross-government and international research projects
- Publish scientific reports and present findings at key industry events

About You

To be considered as a Principal Risk & Process Safety Scientist, you will need:

- Significant experience in risk management concepts for industrial applications
- Experience facilitating hazard and risk workshops/studies
- Proven ability to lead technical project teams and mentor colleagues
- Strong communication skills with a record of scientific report writing and networking
- A higher degree (Master’s or above) in a relevant Science or Engineering discipline, such as Chemical Engineering

The closing date for this role is 24th of January 2025.

Other organisations may call this role Risk Scientist, Process Safety Specialist, Risk Management Consultant, Safety Scientist, or Chemical Engineering Scientist.

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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