Senior Heavy Vehicle Compliance Officer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Pension 28.97%

25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays

Flexible working options

Job summary

The Heavy Vehicle Technical Officer role at Government Recruitment Service in Bridlington is a permanent, full-time position offering a salary of £38,540 per year. The post focuses on ensuring heavy vehicle regulatory compliance and delivering a high-quality, customer-focused service.

It involves assessing complex vehicle applications, supporting DVSA processes, and collaborating with policy teams to develop guidance and improvements across the vehicle testing network.

Qualifications

• Experience assessing heavy vehicle applications and ensuring regulatory compliance.
• Ability to lead, collaborate with teams, and influence stakeholders.
• Strong customer service in a technical environment.

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.
• Maintain relevant data bases as required.

Job description

The Heavy Vehicle Technical Officer role at Government Recruitment Service in Bridlington is a permanent, full-time position offering a salary of £38,540 per year. The post focuses on ensuring heavy vehicle regulatory compliance and delivering a high-quality, customer-focused service.

It involves assessing complex vehicle applications, supporting DVSA processes, and collaborating with policy teams to develop guidance and improvements across the vehicle testing network.