32341 - Asset Inspector Water Land and Biodiversity Team
| Posting date: | 19 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29,751 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 December 2025 |
| Location: | Canterbury, Kent |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Environment Agency |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 32341 |
Summary
We are seeking to appoint an Asset Management Inspector to support the delivery of our Water, Land and Biodiversity (WLB) asset work across the Kent, South London and East Sussex area (KSLES). In this role you will ensure our assets remain safe, effective and resilient, while supporting future investment planning.
We want to create a diverse workplace where people are respected, valued and listened to. We’re all different, and by embracing Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) we can become an equal opportunity employer where jointly we all grow and learn together.
It is our ambition to champion diversity through building a workforce as diverse as the communities we serve.
You will be expected to manage your own workload and work flexibly according to the demands of the role, with support from colleagues.
Knowing the condition of our assets underpins our risk based approached to asset management. The information is used to help us plan our work and target our resources.
You will be collecting information on WLB assets out on site and carrying out a programme of visual inspections to determine asset condition, identify issues and liaise with colleagues to correct defects. You will also be desk-based processing the asset information in our asset management information system.
This role will include:
- Inspecting WLB assets across the KSLES area, this would be around 3 days a week
- With guidance, processing and cleansing asset data
- Assisting WLB area and national asset management staff where required.
- Assisting Area WLB Asset Management Technical lead
Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. Everyone that joins us is required to undertake training and participate. Please see the candidate pack for more on how you will support with this.
The team
The WLB Asset Team sits within Environment Management Department in Local Operations. You will report to the WLB Asset Team Leader, who will guide your workload alongside the area Asset Management Technical Lead.
We are a dynamic, adaptable and inclusive team. You will be required to be flexible and adapt your ways of working according to changing guidance and new evidence.
You will work with several different teams and attend sites across the KSLES area.
Experience/skills required
Essential:
- Ability to manage a varied workload
- Full UK Driving License to access all the sites in the KSLES area. You will be provided with a Badged van.
It would be helpful, but not essential, if you had:
- An Interest in improving the environment for future generations
- Ability to develop and maintain good relationships with internal and external customers
- Deliver work by planning, tracking, gathering and maintaining data/information
- Working under own initiative and as part of a team to achieve planned outcomes
- Good organisational skills
- Strong Excel skills and an ability to use MS Teams
- Proficiency in IT and confidence in managing data are also key requirements.
The candidate pack and generic role profile should be read along with the advert to understand the key accountabilities and skills needed.
We want to create a diverse workplace where people are respected, valued and listened to. We’re all different, and by embracing Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) we can become an equal opportunity employer where jointly we all grow and learn together.
It is our ambition to champion diversity through building a workforce as diverse as the communities we serve.
You will be expected to manage your own workload and work flexibly according to the demands of the role, with support from colleagues.
Knowing the condition of our assets underpins our risk based approached to asset management. The information is used to help us plan our work and target our resources.
You will be collecting information on WLB assets out on site and carrying out a programme of visual inspections to determine asset condition, identify issues and liaise with colleagues to correct defects. You will also be desk-based processing the asset information in our asset management information system.
This role will include:
- Inspecting WLB assets across the KSLES area, this would be around 3 days a week
- With guidance, processing and cleansing asset data
- Assisting WLB area and national asset management staff where required.
- Assisting Area WLB Asset Management Technical lead
Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. Everyone that joins us is required to undertake training and participate. Please see the candidate pack for more on how you will support with this.
The team
The WLB Asset Team sits within Environment Management Department in Local Operations. You will report to the WLB Asset Team Leader, who will guide your workload alongside the area Asset Management Technical Lead.
We are a dynamic, adaptable and inclusive team. You will be required to be flexible and adapt your ways of working according to changing guidance and new evidence.
You will work with several different teams and attend sites across the KSLES area.
Experience/skills required
Essential:
- Ability to manage a varied workload
- Full UK Driving License to access all the sites in the KSLES area. You will be provided with a Badged van.
It would be helpful, but not essential, if you had:
- An Interest in improving the environment for future generations
- Ability to develop and maintain good relationships with internal and external customers
- Deliver work by planning, tracking, gathering and maintaining data/information
- Working under own initiative and as part of a team to achieve planned outcomes
- Good organisational skills
- Strong Excel skills and an ability to use MS Teams
- Proficiency in IT and confidence in managing data are also key requirements.
The candidate pack and generic role profile should be read along with the advert to understand the key accountabilities and skills needed.