Incident Manager
| Posting date: | 05 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | £53,560 to £63,481 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £53, 560 - £60,118; London: £57,026 - £63,481 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 August 2024 |
| Location: | TW11 0JZ |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 363427/3 |
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 Incident Management Team (IMT) is a busy, friendly and highly supportive team, comprised of two closely related functions.
A readiness and resilience arm prepares OPSS to respond to national-scale incidents, emergencies and disruptive events. We develop and exercise a range of incident response plans and related procedures and ensure processes are continuously improved considering lessons arising from exercises or incidents.
An operational arm carries out initial assessments of product safety and noncompliance notifications, publishing product safety alerts, reports and recalls on publicly available websites and working internationally to report product safety issues and to monitor for product safety issues that might impact the UK.
IMT also lead on the coordination of incident activity, liaising with a range of OPSS and wider functions to ensure an effective incident response is delivered.
As one of four G7 Managers within the Incident Management Team, you will lead a number of workstreams within the readiness and resilience arm of the team.
The workstreams include:
Incident Training, Exercising, Lessons Identified, Contingency Plans and Procedures, Horizon Scanning, Incident Engagement.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced manager who wants to take a step forward into a role that comes with a range of management and leadership responsibilities. This role will provide the opportunity to grow, develop, and progress your career.