The team
The Steel and Aluminium Sectors Team sits within the Materials Directorate within the DBT Business Group. We lead HMG’s efforts to build a strong and sustainable steel sector in the UK, determining how best to leverage up to £2.5bn of funding, and developing a steel strategy to be delivered in the spring, setting out how we will work to achieve this objective. Simultaneously, our work also focuses on helping the UK’s existing steel industry adapt and decarbonise in the context of challenging market conditions, whilst balancing competing objectives such as trade, competition and supply chain security. Our work creates opportunities to engage across a broad scope, from local communities, stakeholders across Whitehall and with businesses nationally and internationally.
We support the steel and aluminium sectors through encouraging existing companies and new entrants to manufacture within the UK, supporting critical industries across a range of sectors including construction, infrastructure, automotive and aerospace.
The work of the team is extremely high-profile, politically critical, and of real interest to Parliament and the media, so you can expect direct contact with Ministers, as well as opportunities for engagement with a range of stakeholders. It also impacts the many thousands of people in the UK who are employed both directly and indirectly through the activities of the sectors involved.
The role
We are seeking an SEO to support our steel funding and investment work, where we lead on the manifesto commitment to invest up to £2.5bn in the steel sector. This requires both a ‘big picture’ understanding of the sector and its challenges, including current barriers to investment, and a sharp focus on delivery with the ability to take work forward at pace on funding solutions.
You will work collaboratively across teams within DBT, across Government (particularly HMT, Office for Investment and the National Wealth Fund), and those in the steel industry, to take this work forward.
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