Role: Electronics & Electricals Expert x 3 REF 102311
Contract Length: 3 months
Location: Hybrid/Bristol, London, Newcastle or York - 3 days per week on site
IR35: Inside
Pay Rate to Intermediary: Market Rate
Security Clearance: BPSS
Spinwell is recruiting for an Electronics & Electricals Expert for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ELECTRONICS & ELECTRICALS EXPERT
- Provide specialist advice on electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), including collection, repair, reuse, and recycling systems, ensuring policy proposals reflect operational realities and industry best practices.
- Shape policy delivery for EEE under the Circular Economy Growth Plan, contributing technical insights to improve recovery rates and compliance mechanisms.
- Advise on strategies to enhance circularity, including design for repairability, reuse models, and recycling technologies for electrical and electronic products.
- Develop robust policy proposals, including defining issues, generating options, sourcing evidence, engaging stakeholders, and preparing papers and presentations for senior decision-makers.
- Contribute to strategic planning, situating EEE-related work within the wider circular economy roadmap and supporting long-term goals for resource efficiency and net zero.
- Engage with stakeholders across manufacturers, recyclers, repair networks, and regulators, building consensus and supporting practical implementation of policy changes.
- Work collaboratively within an interdisciplinary team, sharing expertise and supporting a one-team ethos across policy, technical, and delivery colleagues.
- Bring innovation and constructive challenge, introducing new ideas and approaches to improve EEE recycling and reuse systems.
- Upskill Civil Servants, sharing specialist knowledge through mentoring, workshops, and technical guidance to build internal capability.
- Provide clear, evidence-based advice and briefings to senior officials and ministers, translating technical detail into actionable recommendations.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE ELECTRONICS & ELECTRICALS EXPERT
As part of an interdisciplinary team leading our work on end of life electrical and electronic equipment, batteries, and vehicles including tyres, we are seeking seven experts with a background in electrical and electronic equipment, batteries, end of life vehicles, and tyres to shape the policies in the circular economy growth plan into delivery.
As the electricals and electronics expert, you will have deep subject matter knowledge and expertise in:
- electrical and electronic equipment, bringing practical insights from collection, repair, and recycling programmes;
- experience in the reuse and remanufacturing space who can think creatively about keeping electrical equipment and component materials in circulation for longer.
- developing policy proposals: define the issue to be addressed, devise options, source an evidence base, engage stakeholders, and recommend a preferred option, all involving preparation of papers and presentations;
- thinking strategically and programmatically: situate their individual work within the context of a wider programme, and contribute to defining the long-term goal of the wider programme;
- working collaboratively: we are an interdisciplinary directorate and have a one team ethos
- innovate: we are open to, and want our secondees to bring, new ideas and constructive challenge to our work
- You will also be required to upskill the Civil Servants you work with by sharing your knowledge and expertise while here.
If you are an Electronics & Electricals Expert, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!
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