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30889 - Groundwater and Contaminated Land Environment Officer
| Posting date: | 02 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £33,000 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 May 2025 |
| Location: | West Malling |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Environment Agency |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 30889 |
Summary
We are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please clearly include any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.
Kent has a great variety of geological and groundwater interests and pressures. Groundwater is vital for maintaining the health of rivers, wetlands and is essential for industrial and agricultural sectors. Groundwater also serves 80-100% of Kent’s private water supply for over 5 Water Companies in the area. We support the appropriate regulation and management of this precious resource in a variety of ways including, but not limited to:
• Responding to planning consultations from local authorities.
• Providing technical advice to customers on sites affected by land contamination.
• Working with our National Permitting Service to determine Environmental Permits and consents.
• Providing technical advice on compliance activities to internal regulatory teams, including waste, installations and water regulation.
• Supporting the management of Kent’s Groundwater Quality networks and assessing the resulting data.
• Providing groundwater quality specific advice to various internal and external customers and stakeholders, especially other teams within the area
• Supporting the team’s technical specialists in progressing groundwater quality projects.
By doing the above, you will play a critical role in safeguarding the quality of our groundwater and ensuring that improvements are achieved.
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
• Team covers the whole of Kent, South London and East Sussex (KSLE, its members are dispersed across our offices in KSLES. We work with a variety of other teams across the Environment Agency, external customers and partners through written communication, in person, virtual meetings, and site visits.
• The team has a supportive culture despite being dispersed. We prioritise personal and professional development of team members, including supporting membership to two relevant professional bodies.
Experience/skills required
You will hold a degree or similar in a relevant discipline, relevant work experience, with the ability to
demonstrate an awareness and/or experience of the following skills;
• Contaminated land and groundwater quality knowledge.
• Ability to solve problems, make risk-based decisions based on complex or incomplete information.
• Ability to use technical knowledge to present a clear, reasoned justification for decisions.
• Ability to work as part of a team to achieve common goals.
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate with a variety of customers.
• Be a member of a relevant professional body/have a desire to work towards this.
• Understanding of key environmental legislation (i.e.: Environmental Permitting Regulations, Environment Protection Act and the Water Framework Directive).
• Experience in project management is desirable.
Other key requirements for this job include; good IT skills, data handling and analysis, good time management , developed organisational skills.
Kent has a great variety of geological and groundwater interests and pressures. Groundwater is vital for maintaining the health of rivers, wetlands and is essential for industrial and agricultural sectors. Groundwater also serves 80-100% of Kent’s private water supply for over 5 Water Companies in the area. We support the appropriate regulation and management of this precious resource in a variety of ways including, but not limited to:
• Responding to planning consultations from local authorities.
• Providing technical advice to customers on sites affected by land contamination.
• Working with our National Permitting Service to determine Environmental Permits and consents.
• Providing technical advice on compliance activities to internal regulatory teams, including waste, installations and water regulation.
• Supporting the management of Kent’s Groundwater Quality networks and assessing the resulting data.
• Providing groundwater quality specific advice to various internal and external customers and stakeholders, especially other teams within the area
• Supporting the team’s technical specialists in progressing groundwater quality projects.
By doing the above, you will play a critical role in safeguarding the quality of our groundwater and ensuring that improvements are achieved.
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
• Team covers the whole of Kent, South London and East Sussex (KSLE, its members are dispersed across our offices in KSLES. We work with a variety of other teams across the Environment Agency, external customers and partners through written communication, in person, virtual meetings, and site visits.
• The team has a supportive culture despite being dispersed. We prioritise personal and professional development of team members, including supporting membership to two relevant professional bodies.
Experience/skills required
You will hold a degree or similar in a relevant discipline, relevant work experience, with the ability to
demonstrate an awareness and/or experience of the following skills;
• Contaminated land and groundwater quality knowledge.
• Ability to solve problems, make risk-based decisions based on complex or incomplete information.
• Ability to use technical knowledge to present a clear, reasoned justification for decisions.
• Ability to work as part of a team to achieve common goals.
• Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate with a variety of customers.
• Be a member of a relevant professional body/have a desire to work towards this.
• Understanding of key environmental legislation (i.e.: Environmental Permitting Regulations, Environment Protection Act and the Water Framework Directive).
• Experience in project management is desirable.
Other key requirements for this job include; good IT skills, data handling and analysis, good time management , developed organisational skills.