Senior Trading Standards Officer
Core
Lead enforcement, advisory, and investigative activities to protect consumers, support legitimate businesses, and ensure fair trading across product safety, counterfeit goods, food/feed standards, and weights and measures.
Role type
Senior Trading Standards Officer (Enforcement & Compliance)
Builds
Regulatory enforcement actions, prosecution cases, and compliance improvements for retail, wholesale, and manufacturing premises.
Domain
Public Sector / Consumer Protection / Regulatory Enforcement
Deliverable
client delivery
Required skills
Criminal investigation, evidence preparation, court representation, statutory powers enforcement, mentoring apprentices, policy formulation, complex case management
Preferred skills
Strategic coordination, technical advice provision, stakeholder partnership
Technologies
Electronic records systems, IT tools for reporting
Responsibilities
Lead complex investigations and prosecutions; conduct inspections and audits of high-risk premises; mentor trainee officers and apprentices; coordinate specialist subject areas and allocate work; interpret analytical results from product safety samples; formulate service policy and work programmes.