Commercial Vehicle Team Leader
| Posting date: | 15 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £35,663 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 January 2026 |
| Location: | Avonmouth |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 440955/1 |
Summary
Do you enjoy analysing and interpreting data?
Could you identify what presents a risk to road safety?
If so, we’d love to hear from you!
As Enforcement Delivery Team Leader, you will work within Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Delivery, primarily as a people manager, leading and supporting a team of remote working enforcement colleagues.
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 DVSA
Manage and mentor a geographically dispersed enforcement team, supporting their development and leading change. Collaborate across DVSA to promote best practices and intelligence-driven engagement. Assess vehicle, driver, and operator compliance to improve road safety. As team leader, foster inclusion, ensure high service standards, and provide specialist commercial vehicle enforcement expertise to achieve business targets and stakeholder compliance.
Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
- Delivery of high performance by providing high quality leadership, support and guidance, fostering colleague engagement throughout a nationwide enforcement network.
- Coaching and managing the performance of all team members, ensuring they are trained, fully aware of required targets/ quality standards and kept informed of any changes.
- Ensuring all team members have a current personal development plan (PDP) to cater for personal development and succession planning, and coaching and supporting the team to overcome skills gaps.
- Taking ownership for embedding a culture of continuous professional development and sharing best practice across the wider enforcement community.
- Driving improvements to the performance and compliance of the team, recognising and rewarding performance and tackling issues promptly to enable better enforcement outcomes.
For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached Role Profile.
Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.
For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note 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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