Environment Specialist (Water Quality)

Number of jobs available 1 Region South East City/Town West Malling Building/Site Orchard House Grade Staff Grade 5 Post Type Permanent Working Pattern Full Time Role Type Environment & Sustainability, Operational Delivery Salary Minimum £37,462 Job description If you’re passionate about our water environment and want to make a difference to the quality of our rivers and lakes in Kent, South London and East Sussex, then this might be the perfect role for you.

We are looking for someone enthusiastic and self-motivated, with experience of water quality issues to help review, challenge and advise on stakeholder plans and permissions, to ensure they protect and improve our freshwater environment.

You will work with national policy, colleagues, partners and key customers on aspects of water planning to help respond to current pressures and future demands. You will seek optimal solutions to environmental problems and advise on the regulatory requirements that will help us improve the quality of our rivers and lakes to create a better place for people, wildlife and the environment. You will also work with water companies to reduce the impacts from sewage discharges.

Knowledge or experience in some of the following areas would be very valuable in this role:

• Water company performance/regulation
• Water quality modelling
• Water company price review
• Urban Pollution Management processes and standards
• The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017

We support membership of an appropriate professional institute such as CIWEM and encourage ongoing learning and development.

Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident. This may attract an additional payment and full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role. The team The Integrated Environment Planning Team works to improve our evidence base and drive integrated delivery to achieve the best for Kent and South London’s environment.
The team includes specialists focusing on:

• River Basin Planning
• Commissioning our local monitoring activities
• Water Quality
• Water Company investment programmes
• Drought management.

We work with other teams locally and nationally to shape ways of working and contribute to our local and Defra’s 25-Year-Plan aims. Experience/skills required

• A degree / or equivalent in a relevant environmental discipline.
• Ability to demonstrate leadership in a specialist technical area.
• Good research/analysis skills, with an ability to make proportionate, evidence-based inferences/proposals from information.
• Experience of gathering, maintaining and quality-assuring data/information.
• Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise, plan, track, deliver and evaluate work.
• Ability to work under own initiative and as part of a larger, cross-functional/multidisciplinary team
• Sensitive to the needs of the internal and external customers and able to deliver outcomes through these.
• Experience of translating internal guidance and instructions into local delivery.

The Environment Agency: we don’t just talk about diversity; we seek it, embrace it and live it, for the benefit of our staff, our communities and our environment. We are looking for someone who will live and breathe this ethos to help us achieve our goal. Contact and additional information We value a diverse workforce and are fully committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.

The role will be based at Orchard House, Addington, Kent. We currently have a hybrid working arrangement with a mix of home and office working.

Interviews will be held in April 2023

For further details please contact Priya Sharma priya.sharma@environment-agency.gov.uk or Robert Callahan robert.callahan@environment-agency.gov.uk or call our customer contact number 03708 506 506 to have an informal chat about the role.