Senior Heavy Vehicle Technical Lead

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

Benefits offered by this job

Civil service pension

Flexible working

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service is seeking a Heavy Vehicle Technical Officer in Chichester. This permanent, full-time role involves assessing complex heavy vehicle applications for first tests and conversions, ensuring compliance with DVSA standards and legislation, and advising front-line teams and external partners.

The post requires strong technical risk assessment and collaboration with policy, testing staff, operators and manufacturers, with a focus on safe, compliant vehicle operations and

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

Government Recruitment Service is seeking a Heavy Vehicle Technical Officer in Chichester. This permanent, full-time role involves assessing complex heavy vehicle applications for first tests and conversions, ensuring compliance with DVSA standards and legislation, and advising front-line teams and external partners.

The post requires strong technical risk assessment and collaboration with policy, testing staff, operators and manufacturers, with a focus on safe, compliant vehicle operations and