Electrical Inspector

We are currently looking for an Electrical & Controls specialist with expertise in either the chemical sector or other high risk COMAH environments. This is an exciting role with a highly prestigious organisation helping to secure safety standards across a range of key UK industries and sites including, oil refineries, oil and gas storage, chemicals production, and some nuclear sites – based throughout the UK

This is a permanent staff role that can be based out of an office in any of the following locations:

• 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
• York

Occasional travel will be required but this is otherwise a very structured and stable role with a typical schedule involving planned inspections of set sites within your region, followed by office-based report writing and further actions – which will also involve hybrid possibilities working from home where office attendance is not necessary.

The role is most likely to suit experienced Electrical / EC&I candidates with knowledge and experience gained in hazardous environments, whilst possessing degree level education (or equivalent) who possess or are on their way to chartered status. The role will also involve elements of cyber security speciality but this is not a pre-requisite for applications as training will be provided in this as well as other development opportunities.

This is an opportunity for experienced professionals to progress further - in a highly structured role offering great benefits and a healthy work life balance.

An annual salary up to 77K per annum is available plus benefits package including significant employers’ pension contributions (29%). Candidates require a valid driver’s licence and eligibility to obtain security clearance (requiring 3 years previous continuous residency in the UK).

The office is responsible for the GB-wide regulation of onshore high hazard premises and installations as well as the chemicals manufacturing sector as a whole. This involves delivering regulatory interventions in workplaces, engaging with key industry stakeholders and providing assurance that major accident risks are being properly managed.

As a Specialist Inspector of Process Safety, you will use your technical knowledge and expertise to regulate major hazard industries and to influence whole sectors to improve health and safety standards, thereby helping to prevent catastrophic accidents.

• Inspect a variety of major hazard installations, either on your own or as part of an expert team, to make sure risks associated with industrial control systems are suitably managed and that operators comply with the law.
• Carry out technical assessment of Safety Reports provided by major hazard sites (both new and existing).
• Investigate safety related accidents and incidents involving industrial control systems in the major hazards industries.
• The production of technical inspection reports that identify risk gaps and failure(s) to comply with the law.
• Taking suitable enforcement action to address significant risk gaps on operator’s sites e.g., prohibiting processes or activities.
• Forensic analysis of the electrical or control systems elements of accidents in major hazards industries in order to identify root causes and where necessary, leading the technical aspects of the investigation, calling in other expert support and supporting legal enforcement action to prevent a recurrence.
• Provide expert opinion on the management of industrial control systems and, when required, work as a specialist investigator or expert witness at tribunals, inquests and legal…