31408 - Groundwater Protection Officer
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Gorffennaf 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £33,000 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 10 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Southampton |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 5 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Environment Agency |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 31408 |
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If you're interested in protecting our water environment, and keen to develop your technical knowledge, analytical skills and project management capabilities, then we want to hear from you. We're heavily dependent on our groundwater resource for drinking water and other uses. You'll play a critical role in safeguarding the quality and quantity of our groundwater and ensuring that improvements are achieved.
This is a busy and varied role in which you'll provide technical advice, coordinate others, and manage data. You'll support regulation and the delivery of our statutory responsibilities, including the Water Framework Directive.
In this role you'll:
• Contribute to the management of the Area Groundwater Quality Monitoring Network or Groundwater Level Network.
• Provide technical support to protect groundwater through mechanisms such as environmental permitting and the planning regime
• Interpret technical information and have experience of handling multiple data sets
• Deliver decisions to protect groundwater, based on sound evidence and good practice, to identify trends and highlight emerging risks
• Use data to respond to enquiries, inform team work priorities and provide technical advice on incidents involving groundwater
• Build relationships and engage positively with internal and external customers
Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You'll 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.
Please note:
The roles are based in either Worthing/Romsey/Chichester/Pevensey.
The team
We have one vacancy in the Solent and South Downs Area Groundwater, Hydrology and Contaminated Land teams covering E&W Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
We focus on protecting and improving groundwater. Our work includes providing expert advice to internal and external customers to support environmental permitting across a range of activities. We also provide technical advice on a range of water resource management activities including Water Framework Directive , abstraction management, and permitting.
Experience/skills required
You will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
• Either a degree in a relevant scientific/environmental discipline or equivalent work-based experience
• An effective communicator, both verbally and written. You can present clear, well-reasoned arguments that can be understood by a wide range of audiences
• Proficiency in producing, analysing and presenting a range of environmental data to develop evidence and solve technical issues
• Good IT skills, including the use of spreadsheets, databases and mapping systems
• Ability to manage your own workload and work well in a team
• A practical approach to problem-solving, articulating solutions in a simple and persuasive way
• A good knowledge of groundwater quality issues and relevant environmental legislation
Experience in undertaking hydrogeological risk assessments is valuable
Experience in project management is desirable.
This is a busy and varied role in which you'll provide technical advice, coordinate others, and manage data. You'll support regulation and the delivery of our statutory responsibilities, including the Water Framework Directive.
In this role you'll:
• Contribute to the management of the Area Groundwater Quality Monitoring Network or Groundwater Level Network.
• Provide technical support to protect groundwater through mechanisms such as environmental permitting and the planning regime
• Interpret technical information and have experience of handling multiple data sets
• Deliver decisions to protect groundwater, based on sound evidence and good practice, to identify trends and highlight emerging risks
• Use data to respond to enquiries, inform team work priorities and provide technical advice on incidents involving groundwater
• Build relationships and engage positively with internal and external customers
Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You'll 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.
Please note:
The roles are based in either Worthing/Romsey/Chichester/Pevensey.
The team
We have one vacancy in the Solent and South Downs Area Groundwater, Hydrology and Contaminated Land teams covering E&W Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
We focus on protecting and improving groundwater. Our work includes providing expert advice to internal and external customers to support environmental permitting across a range of activities. We also provide technical advice on a range of water resource management activities including Water Framework Directive , abstraction management, and permitting.
Experience/skills required
You will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
• Either a degree in a relevant scientific/environmental discipline or equivalent work-based experience
• An effective communicator, both verbally and written. You can present clear, well-reasoned arguments that can be understood by a wide range of audiences
• Proficiency in producing, analysing and presenting a range of environmental data to develop evidence and solve technical issues
• Good IT skills, including the use of spreadsheets, databases and mapping systems
• Ability to manage your own workload and work well in a team
• A practical approach to problem-solving, articulating solutions in a simple and persuasive way
• A good knowledge of groundwater quality issues and relevant environmental legislation
Experience in undertaking hydrogeological risk assessments is valuable
Experience in project management is desirable.