Enforcement Officer
| Posting date: | 14 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £34,254 to £39,994 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £34, 254 - £36, 142 London: £38,138 - £39,994 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 May 2025 |
| Location: | B4 6BS |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 405635/1 |
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. 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.
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.
We are recruiting for Enforcement Officers within the Regulatory Impact Area at OPSS. The Regulation Impact Area’s work has real world impact, protecting people and places from product related harm.
We enforce a range of product-related regulations, deliver evidence-based solutions, and support business to meet their legal obligations. We enforce and deliver regulation with proportionality, through enforcement, engagement, and collaboration across-Government, and with local, national, and international regulators. We are a collaborative regulator, sharing our expertise and knowledge to lead and influence on both the domestic and global stage.
This is an exciting opportunity for dynamic and motivated individuals to make positive change happen within and beyond OPSS, and who are keen to build a stimulating career in the regulatory environment. We offer a wide-ranging development package, which includes both internal and external learning and development opportunities. Our Regulation Impact Area is growing to meet the challenges of the future, and there are plenty of opportunities for people committed to their professional development, who are adaptable and flexible in their outlook, and can embrace the opportunities presented by an evolving team.
The Regulation Impact Area encompasses the following creative and impactful teams:
Construction Products - This team works with industry and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) to help the UK build better, safer buildings, ensuring that construction products meet their performance requirements and are safe. Where construction products do not meet these requirements, we take the necessary enforcement action.
Products and Sectors Regulation - This team enforces a range of safety, security, environmental, accuracy and energy efficiency regulations across a wide variety of product types. Our work spans most industry sectors, supporting Government priorities, by working closely with and on behalf of other Departments to deliver shared outcomes. This includes supporting growth, through providing a robust and fair regulatory environment in which businesses have confidence to invest and grow, whilst continually ensuring that consumers, places, and the environment are protected from product related harm. Our work also includes regulating products in new and emerging sectors, supporting business growth through innovation.
Online and Supply Chain Enforcement - The Online and Supply Chain Enforcement team works to ensure that consumers across the UK can feel as confident shopping online as they do on the UK’s High Streets; we are committed to preventing unsafe and non-compliant products entering the UK supply chain. This team delivers an innovative programme of enforcement activity, finding the right intervention points to stop bad actors within the supply chain, including at ports and fulfilment centers. The work is intelligence-led and includes proactively monitoring online marketplaces and other platforms who make products available to UK consumers. A range of enforcement activities are undertaken, including withdrawing and recalling products from sale and taking proportionate action, including prosecution.
Candidates in the Regulation Impact Area will be assigned to work areas based on a combination of indicated preference, existing skills and experience, and business need. We will endeavour to place you where you can grow and thrive.
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