Electrical and Control Engineer Specialist (FOD Band3/SEO)

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.

At HSE, we work with one goal in mind – to help keep Britain’s workforce safe and healthy.

Great Britain’s health and safety record is the envy of much of the world. Central to this is our work to protect people by managing risk in a proportionate and effective way, supporting innovation and increasing productivity.

Our Specialist Electrical and Control Engineers help Britain’s most diverse – and essential – industries work safely. In this frontline role you can influence not only individual employers but whole industry sectors.

This is a frontline specialist engineering post. You will need to apply your experience and knowledge to identify risk and underlying issues on site (often from first principles) make effective decisions on the adequacy of existing control measures and persuade and influence people at all levels to achieve compliance with the law.

We are looking for high calibre engineers who can, under challenge, think strategically, identify underlying core issues, and engage at different levels both with colleagues, site technical staff and at the most senior levels within an organisation. You will be able to influence those organisations to bring about improvements and be decisive and clear about what is needed.

Training and development:

From day one, you will be supported by your manager and colleagues to understand your role in HSE, develop your skills and support you in your continuing professional development. For the legal requirements of the role, you will be enrolled on the Specialist Training Programme (STP) and will be required to study for and successfully complete the Unit. You will receive appropriate training and complete a legal assessment.

Using your electrical engineering knowledge, you will:

• Investigate workplace electrical / electrical control system fatalities and other serious incidents to identify the cause and act to prevent reoccurrence. Where necessary, support enforcement action and hold those responsible to account.

• Inspect workplaces to make sure that electrical / control system risks are being effectively managed, driving improvements where necessary to achieve compliance with the law.

• Prepare technical reports and act as a specialist/expert witness at inquests and in Court during legal proceedings.

• Contribute to intervention strategies and plans for industry sectors to reduce the dangers from electricity and improve safety through appropriate designs and use of control systems.

You will have:

• Practical experience of having worked in the field of electrical and control system engineering (preferably in a senior role) and have a detailed knowledge in relevant areas which may include but not be limited to: –
• Distribution and use of electricity at both high and low voltage, including safe systems of work.
• Electrical, electronic, programmable (such as PLCs) and safety-related control systems as applied to process control equipment and machinery including risk assessment, design, installation, testing, maintenance and modification.
• Good communication skills to influence change at all levels in the organisations we regulate.
• Sound analytical skills to identify underlying gaps and deficiencies related to risk management.
• Initiative and decisiveness, making sound decisions based on available evidence.
• Good organisational and planning skills taking responsibility for delivering expected outcomes on time and to the required standard.
• The ability to work collaboratively as part of a multi-disciplinary team, maintaining positive professional working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
• The ability to write effective technical reports and present complex technical information in a clear and concise way for a non-technical audience.

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

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing

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

• Breadth and Depth of Experience
• Scenario Assessment

We invest in our people with:

• Competitive rates of pay
• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• 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 leave on entry increasing to 30 days annual holiday after 5 years service, plus bank holidays and Civil Service privilege leave.
• Competitive 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.

Job contact :

• Name : Andrew Seager or Andrew Pitt
• Email : andrew.seager@hse.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : hr.resourcing-team@hse.gov.uk