Laboratory Information Systems Quality Professional
| Posting date: | 27 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,138 to £39,994 per year |
| Additional salary information: | This role attracts a GSE pay allowance of £2,575 for successful candidates meeting the eligibility requirements. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 July 2025 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 412421/1 |
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.
Our Team:
We are a multidisciplinary team of scientists and engineers delivering testing capability across the broad portfolio of OPSS regulatory requirements. The team works across our testing laboratories which include metrology, mechanical, electrical, chemical, material and flammability facilities. We seek to implement fit for purpose practices and procedures to deliver robust, scientific outputs. In collaboration with other internal stakeholders including those in science, engineering, enforcement and risk, our outputs inform incident investigation, the delivery and enforcement of product regulations as well as policy development.
The Role:
We require an experienced Digital Management System Engineer/Professional to work across the Testing Laboratory and the Digital Team to provide a working solution for an electronic Quality Management System for The Laboratory. The solution will help drive compliance across laboratory operations and enable efficient decision making through built in data analytics. Working with the Quality Manager and the Digital team, you will use your experience to translate user requirements into an effective electronic management system.
You will understand why data quality and information management is essential and build in assurance and access control into the solution framework. Following change control process, you will make the documented QMS more accessible to the team and provide a user-friendly interface to facilitate its adoption.
Working across the Quality and Digital functions the role will involve the following activities.
- Review and modify existing data repositories for our current SharePoint platform.
- Configure the data for successful integration with the identified solution through the Digital Team.
- Translate customer need for data analytics development.
- Implement improvement through experience and develop the system further to positively impact Laboratory operational efficiency.
This is an exciting time to use your experience and to develop your skills across our digital and quality functions. You will work on a solution that has an immediate benefit to the Lab and help to generate a scalable electronic management system to meet laboratory growth and designed to accommodate expansion into the laboratory operation area.
The role will be based at our testing laboratories in Teddington and requires a minimum of 80% office attendance. Working arrangements will be agreed with the Laboratory Quality Manager and in line with the requirements of the role.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement the electronic QMS exploiting Microsoft products such as SharePoint and Excel.
- Configure data for data analytics working with the Digital Team for integration into Microsoft products such as Dynamics and Power automate.
- Validate solutions, and consult with laboratory staff and clients to translate requirements into system changes.
- Establish procedures for collecting, entering and controlling data, ensuring completeness and accuracy of the data.
- Prepare and standardise laboratory activity reports for management review and reports for clients to carry out their responsibilities in respect to compliance and enforcement of legislation.
- Collaborate with appropriate parties to develop laboratory training manuals and deliver information systems training to laboratory staff.
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