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Health, Safety and Environmental Technical Developer
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Role: Technical Developer (Health, Safety and Environment) - UK
Location: Home-Based with occasional travel to head office and industry events
Hours of Work: Full-time (35 hours per week)
Contract: Permanent
Grade: SC3
Target Salary: £47,973 per annum
CITB is seeking an experienced Health, Safety and Environment (HS&E) expert to play a key role in developing construction industry-leading training and assessment products that support a safer, healthier, and more knowledgeable construction workforce. This home-based role offers the opportunity to apply your site experience and specialist knowledge to create and maintain high-quality educational content, including courses, tests, publications, and eLearning materials. Working within a collaborative team, you’ll play a key role in ensuring all HS&E materials and content are technically accurate, current, and aligned with industry standards, contributing to the ongoing improvement of health, safety, and environmental practices across the UK construction sector.
Do you want to share first-hand site experience and vital HS&E knowledge to make a positive difference to everyone working in construction? Do you have an established construction HS&E track record? Do you want to use your unique, specialist skills to develop superior HS&E educational products that help create a safer and healthier construction workforce in a sustainable environment? Do you enjoy the focus and empowerment of working from home, but want the everyday security of interaction with likeminded professionals?
If you want to make a real impact on the construction workforce and be part of a dedicated team, then we would like to hear from you.
About this role
The CITB Assured Product Team is responsible for many key CITB products, and for ensuring these align with industry needs, have maximum impact, and develop alongside evolving technologies. Products include the successful suite of Site Safety Plus (SSP) courses, examinations, and publications, and the HS&E tests for operatives, specialists, managers, and professionals.
As a subject matter expert, you will have significant impact on product development and be responsible for maintaining and developing content of our training and examination products, ensuring that they are technically and legislatively accurate in collaboration with project teams.
You will need highly developed writing skills to transfer technical information into tailored educational content, through writing exam questions, updating and writing text for publications, and producing eLearning scripts, for example.
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This role would be suited to individuals with experience in construction-related training who have developed and delivered curriculums in further education, and who have held a role at a management or advisory level on projects within their HS&E remit.
You will work as part of our small team of technical developers, ranging from leading on HS&E content for training courses through to peer reviewing, image sourcing, and responding to industry challenges. It’s a fast-paced environment, and you will deal with a wide variety of topics and queries.
You will help create innovative and high-quality products with support from a dedicated project team, while co-ordinating and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
Responsibilities
What you’ll be Doing
- Apply HS&E expertise and research in support of the development, re-development, and maintenance of HS&E content across SSP courses, HS&E testing products, supporting publications, and educational documentation.
- Develop, review, and rewrite publications, schemes of work, eLearning courses, and examination questions to ensure alignment with industry challenges and focus areas.
- Translate technical material into high-quality written content to ensure that products are relevant to their audiences.
- Demonstrate positive, collaborative behaviors, and effectively communicate with colleagues and external individuals.
- Take part in and present project meetings with external stakeholders and attend industry and federation meetings as CITB’s HS&E representative.
- Review external queries or challenges relating to CITB products’ HS&E content, and respond with factual, evidence-based information.
- Keep up to date with legislative changes and developments in construction, as well as evolving technologies, that impact product content.
Your Experience
- Extensive HS&E knowledge, and experience of working in construction environments and on sites.
- As a minimum, a NEBOSH Health and Safety Management for Construction (UK) or NEBOSH Environmental Management Certificate (or equivalent).
- A membership in your relevant specialism – such as IOSH or ISEP would be desirable, and established links with specialist organizations such as the Temporary Works forum or Tunnel Skills.
- A further educational qualification, such as a Certificate in Education or Post Graduate Certificate in Education, would be advantageous due to the role’s educational element showing an understanding of the essential fundamentals of assessment, education, and training.
- The ability to translate technical material including industry standards and legislative documents for a range of audiences, demonstrating highly developed and confident writing and presenting skills at an appropriate level.
- A commitment to maintaining a current knowledge of legislation and HS&E industry developments and innovations. CITB will also support your ongoing learning and development.
- Confident and influential communication skills, and stakeholder management attributes such as resilience and professionalism.
- Self-discipline and the motivation to be able to work from home independently and productively and in collaboration with others.
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Informal Chat
If you would like an informal chat about the position before applying, please contact:
Jacqui Day (Senior HS&E Technical Developer) jacqui.day@citb.co.uk
Qualifications
Why join CITB?
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- 3 additional days Christmas shutdown
- Generous pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution)
- Life assurance (4x salary)
- 2 paid volunteering days per year
- Professional development & funded training qualifications
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Be part of a respected organization shaping the future of UK construction
Closing Date
Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the stated closing date. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, therefore early applications are encouraged to avoid disappointment.
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Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate, and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary.
CITB aims to lead the construction sector by example to ensure fairness, inclusion, and respect for all.
We seek to build a workforce that reflects Britain’s diverse population, and people from under-represented groups are encouraged to apply for vacancies.
Our main objective is to create a culture that helps all of our customers strive towards a workforce that is reflective of today’s society.
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