Heavy Vehicle Compliance & Technical Officer (Hybrid)

Government Recruitment Service; Borehamwood; Sur place; GBP 35 000 - 42 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Pension contributions 28.97%

25 days annual leave (+1 per year, up)

Flexible working options

Résumé du poste

The Government Recruitment Service is seeking a Heavy Vehicle Technical Officer in Borehamwood. You will assess heavy vehicle statutory test applications, ensure compliance with DVSA standards, and provide expert technical advice across the team.

You will collaborate with operators, manufacturers and policy teams, handling complex conversions and first-time tests, contributing to risk mitigation and continuous improvement in a safety-focused environment.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Maintain relevant data bases as required.

Responsabilités

• 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 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.
• Maintain relevant data bases as required.

Description du poste

The Government Recruitment Service is seeking a Heavy Vehicle Technical Officer in Borehamwood. You will assess heavy vehicle statutory test applications, ensure compliance with DVSA standards, and provide expert technical advice across the team.

You will collaborate with operators, manufacturers and policy teams, handling complex conversions and first-time tests, contributing to risk mitigation and continuous improvement in a safety-focused environment.