Testing Commissioning Senior Operations Manager
| Posting date: | 01 July 2024 |
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| Salary: | £53,560 to £60,118 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 July 2024 |
| Location: | Birmingham |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 358979/1 |
Summary
Do you care about the safety of products and want to protect people and places? Can we use your skills, knowledge and experience to enable UK business to thrive? If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you!
We are the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), part of the Department for Business & Trade (Previously the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy). We are here for the purpose of making regulation work to deliver real world impact. Regulation is a powerful Government tool to address market failures, influence behaviour and promote positive action. Crafted and delivered well, regulation can be an enabler of growth, innovation and efficiency.
Since early 2018 we have been building a positive and creative team that enjoys a position of influence and respect within an organisation that continues to grow, most recently with the addition of construction products regulation planned.
Our primary purpose is to protect people and places from product-related harm, ensuring consumers and businesses can buy and sell products with confidence.
Further information can be found on our website here
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. We embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. There is a guaranteed interview scheme (DCS) for people with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
We are Inclusive
We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible and recognise how important inclusivity is to achieve the best outcomes. We hope to attract applications from all underrepresented groups.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation if required to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
The Role and Our Team
The New Testing Commissioning team delivers across the whole portfolio of OPSS regulatory and testing requirements. The team holds responsibility for the Testing Commissioning strategy which feed into the overall OPSS strategies and high-level decision making.
On any given day, the team collaborate closely with both internal and external stakeholders to ensure robust, rigorous and outcome focused tests are conducted. To continue to increase our product safety capabilities, we have spent over £5 million to develop our site at Teddington and that includes growing our laboratories to cover key elements of product safety testing needs.
As part of that growth our budget for externally sourced testing has been in excess of £5m pa. We are expanding the team to focus on procurement, contract management and governance and are looking to recruit a G7 with passion and experience who enjoys working and leading in a team to deliver projects for a range of clients.
As part of a dynamic and collaborative team, working to the Head of Testing Commissioning you will develop and deliver an OPSS wide procurement framework to meet OPSS testing needs, and lead the delivery of procurement, contract management and governance aspects for testing projects spanning the OPSS portfolio.