Fuel Production Expert
| Posting date: | 28 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | £69,501 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 November 2025 |
| Location: | Leeds |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 434036/2 |
Summary
Have you been involved in delivering or advising on large-scale developments or strategic programmes?
Do you have experience working with stakeholders across government, industry, or other sectors to achieve shared goals?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
DfT is a high-profile department at the heart of UK government. We work with agencies and partners to support the transport network that helps businesses and gets people and goods travelling around the country. We plan and invest to make journeys better.
Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:
- Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
- 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
- Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.
Read more in the Benefits section below!
Find out more about what it's like working at DFT.
The UK is aiming to lead in the development and use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) as a key part of reducing aviation emissions. To support this, the government is designing a revenue certainty mechanism (RCM) to attract investment and scale up SAF production. We’re seeking an experienced professional to provide expert advice on the design and delivery of the RCM, working closely with policy and delivery teams in DfT and with stakeholders across government and industry.
Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:
Playing a key role in shaping the RCM by ensuring your expert insight is used to inform the design and delivery of the RCM, applying sound judgement on structure, scope and compliance to drive effective implicationsBuild and maintain effective partnerships with senior stakeholders including with a view to ensuring perspectives are properly considered in the design and implementation of the RCM.Use your significant experience to make well-informed and authoritative proposals, assessing policy options for the RCM to ensure that the policy design and implementation reflects commercial, operational and delivery realities in the sectorProviding clear advice to Ministers and senior leaders on implications for industry stakeholders and investors. This includes addressing complex design challenges.Leading on aspects of internal decision-making documents, including formulating and presenting recommendations on issues relating to the development and operation of SAF production facilities, and articulating delivery and commercial implications.For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.
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