Spectrum Engineering Officer

Closing Date: 19/08/2026 Group:
Spectrum Group Management Level: Associate Job Type: Permanent

As the UK’s communications regulator, we’re delivering vital work that helps keep the UK connected and shapes how we’ll stay connected with each other in the future. Our work covers everything from phones and broadband, through to TV, radio, the postal service, and wireless devices. We’re also taking on the challenge of making the online world a safer place. And we need people of all backgrounds, skill sets, and experiences to help us achieve our goal of making communications work for everyone.

Looking for a job where you can utilise your radio engineering skills in contributing to one of Ofcom’s key statutory duties managing the UK civil radio spectrum?

Radio spectrum is a vital resource used by almost everyone, consumers as well as businesses and it touches everyone's life every day. The radio spectrum connects our mobiles, wireless headphones, tablets, and computers. It enables our key fobs to unlock our cars, the Met Office to forecast the weather, satellites to measure global warming, concerts and shows to be seen and heard.

Without access to spectrum police, fire, ambulance, coastguard, and air traffic control would not be able to communicate - it is that important.

Your role will be working in the Spectrum Assurance team within the wider Ofcom Spectrum Group. Spectrum Assurance is a large team consisting of two core elements: UK dispersed SEO’s working in geographical area and a Spectrum Management Centre;
Ofcom’s technical operations hub in Baldock. This unique opportunity also will play a crucial role, inspiring the team to meet Ofcom’s ambition to make communications work for everyone. You will work with fellow Spectrum Engineering Officers (SEO’s) and Compliance Officers to assist the management team to help steer appropriate spectrum operational management policy. Spectrum Engineering Officers (SEO’s) not only provide advice and assistance, where necessary, they undertake compliance action to resolve interference issues.

You are not required to have a legal/regulatory background as full training will be provided. SEO’s will additionally monitor and proactively investigate improper use of the spectrum, to keep the UK businesses and consumers “on the air.”

The key purpose of the role is to deliver high quality spectrum assurance to services and spectrum users within a geographical area. This requires first class radio engineering, interpersonal communications, and we will teach you the investigation and compliance skills to carry out the role. In this unique Engineering / Regulatory role, you will collaborate with a wide range of Ofcom’s radio and telecoms external stakeholders to resolve harmful radio interference cases which can disrupt critical safety to life systems such as aircraft radio communications and navigation systems including radio services essential to everyday life such as mobile network operators.

Radio interference casework will be triaged and passed to you from the Spectrum Management Centre; it will be your responsibility to locate manage the interference case to resolution. In addition, you will manage the radio spectrum within your geographical area monitoring and investigating unlicensed spectrum use. You will be supported by a highly specialised and experienced Ofcom Team using state of the art mobile and fixed radio measurement equipment such as real time radio spectrum analysis supported by the relevant regulatory legislation.

• Responsible for maintaining high radio/spectrum engineering standards and ensuring all harmful interference issues raised are resolved within KPIs.
• Responsible for investigating all unlicensed radio spectrum use within geographical area are resolved within KPIs.
• To mitigate the effects of harmful radio interference you will be responsible for planning targeted proactive radio monitoring to ensure radio licence compliance
• Proactive inspection of a wide range of radio equipment to ensure licence compliance and adherence to associated technical specification
• Support…