Science jobs in Sheffield

Scientist
Buxton, Derbyshire (with travel to meetings, training and off‑site workplace visits across the UK)

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 two Scientists to join our Exposure Measurement Team within the Science, Engineering and Analysis Division (SEAD), Health – Exposure & Control (H-EC) Group 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 a minimum of 30 hours per week.

The Benefits

- Salary of £31,657 - £34,570 per annum
- Access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme (with an employer contribution of 28.97%)
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- Flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- Family-friendly and carer-friendly policies
- 25 days’ annual leave increasing to 30 days after 5 years’ service, plus bank holidays and 1-day Civil Service privilege leave
- Parental leave benefits
- Access to a wide range of employee benefits, including Cycle to Work Scheme, E-Gift Cards, and Vouchers via EdenRed

This is an unrivalled opportunity for two enthusiastic and motivated scientists with laboratory experience in analytical chemistry techniques and a big focus on data to join our essential organisation.

We’ll support you to develop your scientific skills and gain further practical experience, and we’ll provide plenty of training and supervision to ensure you progress and grow.

What’s more, you’ll discover that we are an internationally recognised organisation with tailored learning and development programmes, flexible working options and the chance to work in close collaboration with experienced scientific professionals.

So, if you’re looking to build on your practical scientific and laboratory experience, read on and apply today!

The Role

As a Scientist, you will support laboratory-based analytical work to provide high-quality chemical measurement data.

Specifically, you will carry out practical scientific work to support our regulatory, forensic and investigative activities. Undertaking routine laboratory work, you will analyse biological samples for chemical biomarkers, whilst supporting a range of research projects.

You will have the chance to specialise and work in either analytical chemistry or biological monitoring, delivering analytical services and applying analytical techniques. Involved in chromatography and spectrometry work to generate data, you will support analytical projects, handle samples and chemicals and deliver routine lab work.

About You

To be considered as a Scientist, you will need:

- Practical laboratory experience applying analytical chemistry techniques, such as gas chromatography, liquid chromatography and/or mass spectrometry, gained through work, higher education or structured training
- Experience of method application, data analysis and ensuring data quality
- The ability to collate, manage, analyse and interpret scientific data
- The ability to identify technical solutions and contribute to the development of new or improved measurement approaches
- The ability to troubleshoot instrument and method issues
- Strong organisational skills
- Good communication skills
- A degree (or equivalent) in Chemistry or a closely related discipline with a substantial analytical chemistry component

The closing date for this role is the 6th July 2026.

Other organisations may call this role Chemist, Laboratory Chemist, Laboratory Analyst, Research Scientist, Laboratory Scientist, Research and Development Scientist, or Regulatory 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.

So, if you’re ready to contribute to safer and healthier working lives as a Scientist, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.

Pay: £31,657.00-£34,570.00 per year

Work Location: In person