Careers in HSE

It takes a wide range of skills, experiences and backgrounds to achieve our mission – and that’s what makes HSE such a rewarding place to work.

We attract, develop and retain exceptional people by offering meaningful and rewarding career opportunities that make a real difference. Our teams include inspectors, scientists, engineers, digital professionals and experts across many other roles, all playing their part in protecting people and places.

We invest in our people because we know that, together, we can make the greatest impact. When you join HSE, your work helps ensure more people come home safe and well from their jobs every day.

What we do to protect people and places

Inspectors and visiting officers

Our inspectors and visiting officers are the frontline of HSE’s life-saving work. Working on construction sites, farms, manufacturing plants and many other workplaces, millions of workers come home safe and well because of the difference our teams make.

From inspecting workplaces to investigating incidents, our inspectors and visiting officers carry out some of the most important and rewarding work in government.

Scientists and researchers

Our scientists carry out fascinating work. This ranges from world-leading research into occupational risk, to supporting national policy development and applying specialist expertise and forensic skills to incident investigations.

Whether you’re a psychologist, chemist, economist, statistician, occupational hygienist or epidemiologist, your knowledge and skills can help protect lives and make a real difference.

Engineers

If you’re an engineer, HSE offers the chance to develop your career while working on some of the most complex and challenging issues in industry.

Whether your specialism is civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical, systems or software engineering, HSE offers opportunities to develop your career.

Our engineers go where the work takes them, and that means real variety and fascinating locations – from offshore rigs in the North Sea, underground in a mine or deep inside a highly complex petrochemical plant. You could work with everything from innovative new businesses to established multinationals – every project brings a new challenge.

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