31874 - Regulatory Support Officer
| Posting date: | 15 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £28,607 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 September 2025 |
| Location: | Nottingham |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Environment Agency |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 31874 |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join East Midlands Regulated Industry and be part of our Regulatory Support Officer team.
We regulate a range of permitted sites to ensure compliance with the Environmental Permitting Regulations. We also undertake pollution incident response and investigation.
You'll support and facilitate the delivery of a wide range of administrative and compliance activities and enable our regulatory teams to secure positive outcomes for people and the environment.
This role underpins our departmental performance and will be extremely varied
Working closely with other teams and departments, you can expect to be involved in the following:
• Acting as an initial point of contact, communicating and filtering information for the team
• Maintaining data and information systems, ensuring our records are up to date, accessible and stored appropriately to facilitate team activities.
• Supporting a range of compliance and enforcement activities for the team
• Helping the team protect and collect the income we receive from permit fees and charges
• Drafting and issuing radioactive substance activity permits for the Midlands area
• Handling and storing confidential information
• Maintaining essential team equipment
• Collating and providing information requested by internal and external customers
• Taking part in incident management
We welcome applications regardless of race, sex, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity or marital status.
The team
The East Midlands Regulated Industry Team is responsible for the regulation of a large number of sites and activities that require environmental permits.
These permits cover a wide range of waste activities, industrial processes and places that use and dispose of radioactive substances.
You will be based at the Nottingham Trentside Office.
Experience/skills required
Ideally, you'll be educated to A level standard (or equivalent)
Through your experience to date you should be able to demonstrate some of the following:
The ability to work effectively in a dynamic and busy team environment
Excellent communication skills and the ability to develop good working relationships with customers
Bringing energy and enthusiasm to a team or department
Ability to work on your own and as part of a team
Using your initiative to make decisions and achieve planned outcomes
Focus on efficiency, innovation and effectiveness
Excellent organisational skills and strong IT skills.
The key things we’re looking for are transferrable skills and capabilities, so do not be put off applying if you don’t have previous experience in this sector.
As an entry level role we welcome all backgrounds, preferably those with an interest in the environment and wanting to make a difference.
We regulate a range of permitted sites to ensure compliance with the Environmental Permitting Regulations. We also undertake pollution incident response and investigation.
You'll support and facilitate the delivery of a wide range of administrative and compliance activities and enable our regulatory teams to secure positive outcomes for people and the environment.
This role underpins our departmental performance and will be extremely varied
Working closely with other teams and departments, you can expect to be involved in the following:
• Acting as an initial point of contact, communicating and filtering information for the team
• Maintaining data and information systems, ensuring our records are up to date, accessible and stored appropriately to facilitate team activities.
• Supporting a range of compliance and enforcement activities for the team
• Helping the team protect and collect the income we receive from permit fees and charges
• Drafting and issuing radioactive substance activity permits for the Midlands area
• Handling and storing confidential information
• Maintaining essential team equipment
• Collating and providing information requested by internal and external customers
• Taking part in incident management
We welcome applications regardless of race, sex, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity or marital status.
The team
The East Midlands Regulated Industry Team is responsible for the regulation of a large number of sites and activities that require environmental permits.
These permits cover a wide range of waste activities, industrial processes and places that use and dispose of radioactive substances.
You will be based at the Nottingham Trentside Office.
Experience/skills required
Ideally, you'll be educated to A level standard (or equivalent)
Through your experience to date you should be able to demonstrate some of the following:
The ability to work effectively in a dynamic and busy team environment
Excellent communication skills and the ability to develop good working relationships with customers
Bringing energy and enthusiasm to a team or department
Ability to work on your own and as part of a team
Using your initiative to make decisions and achieve planned outcomes
Focus on efficiency, innovation and effectiveness
Excellent organisational skills and strong IT skills.
The key things we’re looking for are transferrable skills and capabilities, so do not be put off applying if you don’t have previous experience in this sector.
As an entry level role we welcome all backgrounds, preferably those with an interest in the environment and wanting to make a difference.