Vacancies

We’re undergoing an exciting period of change and growth at OPSS, and there’s never been a better time to join us. Below you can find our current vacancies, which are updated regularly.

The Regulatory Leaders Graduate Scheme (RLGS) offers real world experience across a range of teams.

We’re looking for people who are passionate about making a difference, helping to tackle market failures, promoting positive action and enabling growth and productivity to join us on this exciting journey. RLGS will enable you to be who you want to be in a growing, inclusive, and rewarding organisation which make a difference to prevent product related harm.

Over 30 months you will have 4 rotations within the impact areas of OPSS providing the opportunity for you to discover what roles really interest you and play to your strengths.

Alongside the practical experience you will participate in a learning and development programme designed to equip you with the skills and tools to be a future leader within OPSS.

At the end of the programme, you will have a permanent role within OPSS and the opportunity to further develop and progress your career.

Here, your personality and passion for effective regulation matters more to us than your employment or academic history. That’s why, even if you haven’t worked in regulation before, you could be the perfect fit for our exciting Regulatory Leaders Graduate Scheme, and you’ll be poised to embark on an exciting career pathway within OPSS and on your way to becoming one of the very best regulatory leader.

We are looking for a senior compliance testing engineer to co-ordinate the delivery of compliance testing activities across our laboratories.  If you are currently working in a commercial test laboratory or working as a test engineer in a similar role, have excellent interpersonal and project management skills, and strive for excitement, challenge, and variety then this could be the role for you. The ideal person will apply your technical and operational expertise to manage the delivery and continuous improvement of compliance testing workstreams, acting as lead reviewer to ensure laboratory policies and outputs provide effective outcomes and impact for the organisation. You will be familiar with the UK regulatory framework and have a good working knowledge of product safety test standards. It is important that you collaborate closely with other laboratory staff members and OPSS evidence and operational teams to ensure the laboratories continue to deliver a high-quality and robust technical service. It is crucial you can communicate clearly to colleagues at all levels and can translate technical findings so they can be readily understood by non-technical audiences.

Join Our Energy Supply Team and Shape the Future!

Are you passionate about sustainability and innovation? Our Energy Supply team is at the forefront of creating a sustainable energy future. As part of the wider Products and Sectors Regulation team, we’re setting rigorous standards for heat networks, electric vehicle charging, and more. Our mission is to foster a thriving energy market where businesses can innovate and consumers enjoy a reliable, affordable, and environmentally friendly energy supply.

We are responsible for the accuracy of over 50 million gas and electricity meters used for billing consumers. We work with energy suppliers to ensure the accuracy of meter populations, thereby helping consumers engage with their energy usage and maintaining consumer confidence in the energy bills they receive. By driving compliance within the energy sector, we’re accelerating the transition to a low-carbon economy. Meter accuracy is pivotal in ensuring we account for our energy usage in a fair and efficient manner, helping drive the country’s Net Zero goals.

Why Join Us?

  • Impact: Play a crucial role in enforcing standards that drive sustainability.
  • Innovation: Help create an environment where businesses can thrive and innovate.
  • Sustainability: Contribute to a reliable and eco-friendly energy supply for all.

Your Role: Technical Support Engineer

We’re seeking a Technical Support Engineer to leverage their skills and experience to drive our goals forward. In this role, you’ll be instrumental in implementing rigorous, yet proportionate regulations aligned with the Regulators’ Code. You will be at the forefront of driving compliance within the energy sector. Collaborating closely with key stakeholders including DESNZ, OFGEM, and internal teams, you will develop and execute strategies to achieve our regulatory goals.

What Will You Be Doing?

  • Support Delivery: Work with the Utilities Team Manager to support the delivery of the team’s statutory responsibilities under primary legislation and develop policies to accommodate new technologies.
  • Coordinate Enforcement: Ensure the continued compliance of gas and electricity meter populations by coordinating the team’s enforcement activities.
  • Provide Technical Advice: Offer technical advice and support to OPSS/DBT colleagues, other government departments, meter manufacturers, industry groups, trade associations, and energy suppliers, including participating in various technical committees.
  • Liaise with Stakeholders: Work with manufacturers and trade organisations to reduce barriers to trade and ensure UK manufacturers can take advantage of increased market opportunities. Research new, innovative technologies that require appropriate metering.
  • Contract Management: Undertake contract management and performance monitoring activities associated with an outsourced service provider.
  • Reduce Regulatory Burden: Assist businesses in complying with legal requirements to reduce the regulatory burden.

Be Part of the Change

Join us in our mission to enable a thriving energy market. If you’re driven by sustainability and innovation, and want to make a real impact, apply now and help us build a better future!

As a Team Leader for our Heat Networks team, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping a sustainable energy future. Your work will directly contribute to reducing carbon emissionsprotecting consumers, and promoting a thriving energy market. By ensuring compliance with industry regulations, you’ll play a vital role in building a cleaner, more equitable, and resilient energy landscape for generations to come.

Leading a team of enforcement officers and technical experts, you will be responsible for creating and implementing comprehensive operational plans, including  performance reporting.

Why Join Us?

  • Impact: Play a crucial role in enforcing standards that drive sustainability.
  • Innovation: Help create an environment where businesses can thrive and innovate.
  • Sustainability: Contribute to a reliable and eco-friendly energy supply for all.

The OPSS Border Delivery Team is responsible for detecting, deterring and disrupting flows of unsafe and non-compliant consumer and construction products into the UK, whilst reducing friction at the border for compliant products. The team runs the programme, the operational policy, and the operational delivery of OPSS’s activity, administering a £3.8m budget, and working closely with local authorities, Border Force, and HMRC to deliver checks that result in millions of products being refused entry at the border and sustainable business behaviour change.

The Border Programme Engagement Lead will work with internal and external stakeholders to develop partnership working at nationally strategic points of entry (Ports and Borders). To ensure a consistent approach to product safety risks for imported goods, whilst supporting the wider work of the team with local authorities on product safety, legal metrology and construction products matters. Alongside the Local Authority Unit, you will be the primary face of the team amongst our external stakeholders, the first line for questions and advice, and you will feed in the views and needs of our stakeholders into relevant conversations, projects, and policies being developed and implemented across OPSS.

We are the OPSS Digital and Technology team, and we build digital services focused on product safety and regulation.

Our team is a mixed team of civil servants and contractors that collaborate in agile service teams working on user centred designs.

We have an exciting portfolio of services that have internal and external users and there are already further services in our pipeline for future development.

This is an exciting time to be at OPSS Digital. As a fast-growing area of the Department for Business and Trade, we’re raising compliance standards across the board and making a real-world impact on millions of lives nationwide.

This is a mid-level role for an experienced software developer who will have the opportunity to develop and grow in the profession.