Watch this space!
We regularly recruit for Vehicle Standards Assessors across the UK.
We don’t have any live vacancies at the moment, but our next campaign is likely to be in January 2025.
You can view all of DVSA’s roles on Civil Service Jobs where you can apply or sign up for job alerts.
Benefits We Offer
This role has many appealing benefits to offer, including:
- A fully insured and taxed modern lease car, which is for both work and personal use. Other running costs are also covered
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- An environment with flexible working patterns, which encourage a great work-life balance
- Modern IT (includes smartphone) and all uniform/equipment provided
- Career path; opportunities to progress within DVSA and the wider Civil Service
To find out more about the job and DVSA, please join us either at one of our virtual events or at one of our face-to-face open days.
You can register for an event here.
There are a number of DVSA events scheduled, so please be sure to select one of the Vehicle Standards Assessor events.
Being a DVSA Vehicle Standards Assessor
As a DVSA Vehicle Standards Assessor, you will make a vital contribution to road safety and standards by keeping the public safe on Britain’s roads.
You will do this by conducting technical examinations on vehicles to ensure they meet legal roadworthiness requirements.
The vehicles you examine include lorries, buses, coaches, and trailers. You will be deployed from home and work out of a number of 3rd party customer premises called Authorised Testing Facilities (ATF).
Responsibilities of a Vehicle Standards Assessor may include:
- Conduct annual test inspections for all vehicles, recording results digitally and issuing documentation
- Be responsible for decisions and explaining outcomes, ensuring the customer understands
- Maintain good partnering relationships within the testing network
- Contribute to the work of the whole team to meet goals
- Advise and support colleagues, including mentoring new and existing VSAs
- Keep up to date with new procedures relating to the job role (such as relevant legislation and DVSA policy)
Our vision is for safer drivers, safer vehicles, and safer journeys for all. We help keep vehicles safe to drive by providing vehicle testing
The work we do
We help millions of people every year. We make sure learners are safe to drive, by approving driving instructors and conducting driving and theory tests. We help people keep their vehicles safe to drive by approving MOT testers and inspecting vehicles. Our teams help protect the public from unsafe vehicles and drivers through roadside enforcement activities.
31,958 defective
vehicles found each year
38.5 million MOT Certificates issued each year
Tony, Vehicle Standards Assessor in the Operations South Team
“The DVSA really feels like a family, and I would recommend working for this fantastic
Agency.”
What you’ll bring
Download our Vehicle Standards Assessor Candidate Pack
Everything you need to know about applying for and becoming a Vehicle Standards Assessor, as well as working for the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency is in our Candidate Pack.
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