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29521 - Installations Regulatory Officer

Job details
Posting date: 16 September 2024
Salary: £31,429 to £31,429 per year
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 06 October 2024
Location: Preston, Lancashire
Remote working: Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week
Company: Environment Agency
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 29521

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Summary

The Environment Agency are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. 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.
Everyone starting in a new role will be welcomed into the team and given all the training and support needed. As part of your comprehensive induction, you will be provided with all the equipment required for your role.

The Cumbria and Lancashire Installations team are recruiting! We are looking for a Grade 4 regulatory officer to join the team.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Cumbria and Lancashire Installations (Industrial regulation) team working with businesses to help them comply with the Environmental Permitting Regulations. You'll ensure permit compliance, make assessments of operator ability to protect the environment, prevent pollution and optimise resources. You will work across a range of Industrial sectors including (but not exclusively) Landfill, food and drink, chemicals, and paper and pulp.

You'll be using technical and leadership skills to use influence and negotiate to ensure best practice, sometimes dealing with people at senior levels within industry, local communities and other interested groups. You'll be expected to respond, investigate and undertake enforcement action to a range of environmental incidents.

We support flexible working hours and practices to help you strike a good balance between your work life and your personal life. You will be part of a diverse organisation which takes pride in welcoming applicants from all sections of the community

The candidate pack and Role Description should be read along with this advert to understand the key accountabilities and skills needed.
The team
The post will be based in a Regulatory Team (Installations) in Cumbria and Lancashire. The teams work flexibly across the Area, regulating sites in a range of industrial sectors including chemicals manufacturing, landfill, food and drink, and paper and textiles.
Experience/skills required
- Experience and knowledge of one or more industrial sector.
- Confident communicator, able to demonstrate excellent influencing skills and success in developing good relations with difficult people and situations.
- Ability to manage multiple demands on time in a prioritised manner to achieve outcomes and deliver against plans.
- A proven track record of taking initiative and using a continuous improvement approach. Adapting readily to new ways of working
- Flexibility in approach with a 'can do' attitude.
- Ability to make decisions and solve technical problems.
- Thorough knowledge of Health, safety and wellbeing and a positive and proactive approach to it
- Excellent interpersonal skills and be able to demonstrate how you would provide technical leadership.
- Works in teams to support colleagues to achieve common goals.
- Ideally educated to degree level or equivalent or able to demonstrate comparable technical knowledge and experience.

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