Depot Compliance Officer in Aylesbury

Are you passionate about compliance, operational excellence, and making a difference in your community? We are seeking a proactive and detail-oriented Depot Compliance Officer to join our dynamic Fleet Administration team at Buckinghamshire Council. In this key role, you'll help ensure our depot operations meet the highest standards of legal, regulatory, and ethical compliance, supporting a range of essential services that keep our neighbourhoods running smoothly.

Responsibilities:

• Designing, implementing, and monitoring compliance and assurance procedures.
• Conducting audits and inspections, identifying risks, and recommending corrective actions.
• Preparing compliance reports and summaries for management and regulatory bodies.
• Investigating incidents and breaches, ensuring timely resolution and documentation.
• Providing training and guidance to staff on compliance requirements.
• Supporting Freedom of Information (FOI) and Data Protection requests.
• Liaising with internal departments, external regulators, and service providers.
• Maintaining accurate financial and operational records to support audit readiness.
• Identifying opportunities for process improvement and contributing to the continuous enhancement of compliance systems.

Services Supported:

• Collecting and disposing of waste and recycling
• Maintaining our roads and Rights of Way network and parking
• Ensuring the delivery of school transport, and supporting sustainable travel including public bus services and School Crossing Patrollers
• Managing Country Parks
• Leisure facilities, museums, theatres and libraries, as well as developing our Cultural Strategy
• Licensing, Environmental Health and Trading Standards
• Cemeteries and Crematoria

The customer is central to how we develop and deliver all of these services, which help promote our rich and vibrant culture and special environment. We are looking for enthusiastic, ambitious and committed individuals to join our team and help us to continue to make Buckinghamshire a great place to live, work and visit. This is an exciting time for us as we bring together the services previously run by five separate councils before Buckinghamshire Council was created.

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive candidate for the Depot Compliance role. The ideal candidate will have experience in conducting audits and ensuring adherence to company policies. They should be highly organised, able to work independently, and possess strong communication skills to collaborate effectively across teams. Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite is desirable, as the role involves preparing reports, analysing data, and maintaining accurate documentation.

Benefits and Values:

• A fair and inclusive culture
• The chance to really make a difference to those around you
• Health and well-being initiatives including an Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and mindfulness workshops
• A unified voice through our Employee Representative Group
• Ongoing support, and the opportunity to develop and progress in your career with us
• Opportunities to take part in fun activities such as fundraising and social events

We are working hard to ensure we continue to be an accessible and inclusive organisation. From dedicated staff networks overseen by our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Steering Group, to proudly standing as a Disability Confident employer, it's important to us that all our colleagues feel engaged, listened to, and valued. Our offer of flexible working empowers a productive and happy workforce and allows employees to combine work with other responsibilities and commitments.

Hard work and success deserves recognition. That's why we pride ourselves on the benefits we give our people. We actively encourage a good work-life balance and promote flexible and agile working arrangements. We provide discounts on various cafés, restaurants, shops and auto-enrolment onto our generous Pension Scheme. In addition to the opportunity to gain membership to Costco, we have discounted gym memberships, travel discounts with Arriva and much more.