Heavy Vehicle Compliance Lead

Government Recruitment Service; Ashford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service Pension (28.97%)

25 days annual leave (plus bank hols)

Flexible working options

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service advertises a Heavy Vehicle Technical Officer role with DVSA in Ashford, Kent. The role involves assessing complex heavy vehicle applications, ensuring compliance with DVSA standards and legislation, and advising operators, manufacturers and other stakeholders.

As part of Vehicle Services leadership, you will support processing teams, manage regulatory requirements, and help maintain high safety and performance standards across the vehicle testing network.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional assessment of heavy vehicle statutory test applications for both first test and vehicle conversion, checking reports and supporting documentation, ensuring compliance.
• Undertake assessment of applications of approved vehicles via the European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval (ECWVTA) teams.
• Provide technical support to non-technical processing teams and act as an advisory service to front line staff, operators, manufacturers, trade organisations, other agencies as well as the public on a variety of subjects including DVSA and related services, responding to written and verbal enquiries in a timely manner.
• Investigate possible solutions to solve issues or mitigate risks.
• Collaborate with the Vehicle Policy Team on new initiatives and developing new requirements and standards, for example where there are regulatory changes or to improve clarity within existing publications.
• Communicate positively and effectively with internal and external customers to ensure a full understanding of their requirements and to ensure a concise accurate response is delivered via technical inbox
• Provide support to the Heavy Vehicle Processing Manager, representing DVSA at trade events and to carry out ad hoc related tasks.

Job description

Government Recruitment Service advertises a Heavy Vehicle Technical Officer role with DVSA in Ashford, Kent. The role involves assessing complex heavy vehicle applications, ensuring compliance with DVSA standards and legislation, and advising operators, manufacturers and other stakeholders.

As part of Vehicle Services leadership, you will support processing teams, manage regulatory requirements, and help maintain high safety and performance standards across the vehicle testing network.