30925 - Regulatory Officer 1 - Combined Packaging Regime - Anglia
| Posting date: | 09 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £33,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 May 2025 |
| Location: | Norwich, Norfolk |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Environment Agency |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 30925 |
Summary
Do you want to work for an organisation that values difference and includes everyone? Then the Environment Agency is the organisation for you! We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share.
This role will be based in the Combined Packaging Regime team within Environmental Markets and Regulation. We’re a national team with officers based across England, ensuring a consistent regulatory approach across the country.
We ensure that companies are disposing of their waste correctly by enforcing government regulations – ‘right waste, right place’.
You will be key to planning, monitoring and delivering compliance and enforcement activity within your area of waste regulation, to drive a circular economy.
Find out about our wider team here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7fCgRW5SM.
As a Regulatory Officer, you will:
•Develop further relationships with customers and stakeholders
•Answer technical queries; interpret and diagnose problems and develop solutions.
•Collate, analyse and use complex data to help make evidence-based decisions on regulation compliance.
•Deal with confidential and sensitive information whilst keeping in line with data protection guidelines.
•Contribute to the development and improvement of processes, procedures, and operational instructions.
•Undertake audit and enforcement work (both) in the field and/or desk-based
•Work with businesses to bring them into compliance and investigate companies suspected of non-compliance. This work can involve conducting interviews under caution and compiling of casefiles for our legal teams.
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. Full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your
incident role. This may attract an additional payment.
The team
Environmental Markets and Regulation is a supportive and inclusive department that encourages our
teams’ health, safety, wellbeing, and development. We aim to improve the quality of recycling and
ensure waste entering and leaving the country is handled appropriately for recycling and recovery. We
help to protect and improve the environment by regulating industry, ensuring compliance, and
eliminating illegal activities.
Key areas we regulate: Packaging Waste, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Batteries and
International Waste Shipments.
Experience/skills required
We are looking for applicants who can demonstrate:
•Ability to handle difficult / confrontational conversations.
•You will be based in the GMMC packaging producer team and you will have an expectation to travel.
•Excellent influencing skills and success in developing good relations in complex environments.
•Experience of producing accurate reports; collation, analysis and interpretation of data using Microsoft Office.
•Ability to manage multiple demands on time in a prioritised manner to achieve outcomes and deliver against plans.
•Experience of obtaining witness statements, disclosure, handling exhibits, and knowledge of Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000) is desirable.
•Sound knowledge of Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act (1996) & Police & Criminal Evidence Act (1984 )is desirable.
•Must have a valid full UK driving license
Everyone starting in a new role with the Environment Agency will be welcomed into the team and given all the training and support you need to succeed.
This role will be based in the Combined Packaging Regime team within Environmental Markets and Regulation. We’re a national team with officers based across England, ensuring a consistent regulatory approach across the country.
We ensure that companies are disposing of their waste correctly by enforcing government regulations – ‘right waste, right place’.
You will be key to planning, monitoring and delivering compliance and enforcement activity within your area of waste regulation, to drive a circular economy.
Find out about our wider team here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7fCgRW5SM.
As a Regulatory Officer, you will:
•Develop further relationships with customers and stakeholders
•Answer technical queries; interpret and diagnose problems and develop solutions.
•Collate, analyse and use complex data to help make evidence-based decisions on regulation compliance.
•Deal with confidential and sensitive information whilst keeping in line with data protection guidelines.
•Contribute to the development and improvement of processes, procedures, and operational instructions.
•Undertake audit and enforcement work (both) in the field and/or desk-based
•Work with businesses to bring them into compliance and investigate companies suspected of non-compliance. This work can involve conducting interviews under caution and compiling of casefiles for our legal teams.
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. Full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your
incident role. This may attract an additional payment.
The team
Environmental Markets and Regulation is a supportive and inclusive department that encourages our
teams’ health, safety, wellbeing, and development. We aim to improve the quality of recycling and
ensure waste entering and leaving the country is handled appropriately for recycling and recovery. We
help to protect and improve the environment by regulating industry, ensuring compliance, and
eliminating illegal activities.
Key areas we regulate: Packaging Waste, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, Batteries and
International Waste Shipments.
Experience/skills required
We are looking for applicants who can demonstrate:
•Ability to handle difficult / confrontational conversations.
•You will be based in the GMMC packaging producer team and you will have an expectation to travel.
•Excellent influencing skills and success in developing good relations in complex environments.
•Experience of producing accurate reports; collation, analysis and interpretation of data using Microsoft Office.
•Ability to manage multiple demands on time in a prioritised manner to achieve outcomes and deliver against plans.
•Experience of obtaining witness statements, disclosure, handling exhibits, and knowledge of Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (2000) is desirable.
•Sound knowledge of Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act (1996) & Police & Criminal Evidence Act (1984 )is desirable.
•Must have a valid full UK driving license
Everyone starting in a new role with the Environment Agency will be welcomed into the team and given all the training and support you need to succeed.