31024 - Regulatory Officer 1 - Packaging Waste - Field Based
| Posting date: | 23 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £33,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 June 2025 |
| Location: | Lincoln, Lincolnshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Environment Agency |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 31024 |
Summary
Are you passionate about the environment? Join us and help create a cleaner, safer and healthier environment for people and wildlife. 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.
This role will be based in the Packaging Midlands field team within the Producer Responsibility team, part of Environmental Markets and Regulation (EM&R)
Find out about our wider team here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7fCgRW5SM
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.
As a Regulatory Officer you will:
•Undertake audit and enforcement work in the field and/or desk-based.
•Collate, analyse and use complex data to help make evidence-based decisions on regulation compliance.
•Answer technical queries; interpret and diagnose problems and develop solutions.
•Develop further relationships with customers and stakeholders
•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.
•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. 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
As part of the Packaging Midlands Team in Producer Responsibility, you will be based in Lincoln and some travel will be required. The team consists of Regulatory Officers and Senior Technical Officers who specialise in monitoring compliance at regulated sites, ensuring packaging waste is handled appropriately for recycling and recovery, either in the UK or overseas. The team also undertake enforcement action where offences have occurred. We encourage our colleagues’ health, safety, wellbeing and development.
Experience/skills required
We are looking for people with various types of experience who can demonstrate the capabilities and interpersonal skills needed for the role. Waste industry or regulatory experience is not necessary as you will receive full training. We are looking for people who enjoy working outdoors and in an office.
Candidates should be:
• effective, organised and able to prioritise
• confident/assertive
• IT/computer literate
• comfortable with numbers and handling large data sets
• passionate about the environment, willing to learn about environmental regulation/enforcement
And can:
• handle confrontational situations
• adapt communication style to suit others to get your message across
• integrate into a team
• record information accurately
You must hold a full valid UK driving licence as you will be required to travel and drive as part of the role. A degree is not required for this role, we value life experience.
This role will be based in the Packaging Midlands field team within the Producer Responsibility team, part of Environmental Markets and Regulation (EM&R)
Find out about our wider team here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7fCgRW5SM
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.
As a Regulatory Officer you will:
•Undertake audit and enforcement work in the field and/or desk-based.
•Collate, analyse and use complex data to help make evidence-based decisions on regulation compliance.
•Answer technical queries; interpret and diagnose problems and develop solutions.
•Develop further relationships with customers and stakeholders
•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.
•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. 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
As part of the Packaging Midlands Team in Producer Responsibility, you will be based in Lincoln and some travel will be required. The team consists of Regulatory Officers and Senior Technical Officers who specialise in monitoring compliance at regulated sites, ensuring packaging waste is handled appropriately for recycling and recovery, either in the UK or overseas. The team also undertake enforcement action where offences have occurred. We encourage our colleagues’ health, safety, wellbeing and development.
Experience/skills required
We are looking for people with various types of experience who can demonstrate the capabilities and interpersonal skills needed for the role. Waste industry or regulatory experience is not necessary as you will receive full training. We are looking for people who enjoy working outdoors and in an office.
Candidates should be:
• effective, organised and able to prioritise
• confident/assertive
• IT/computer literate
• comfortable with numbers and handling large data sets
• passionate about the environment, willing to learn about environmental regulation/enforcement
And can:
• handle confrontational situations
• adapt communication style to suit others to get your message across
• integrate into a team
• record information accurately
You must hold a full valid UK driving licence as you will be required to travel and drive as part of the role. A degree is not required for this role, we value life experience.