32526 - Regulatory Officer 1 – Packaging Waste
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 12 Rhagfyr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £34,320 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 11 Ionawr 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | South East |
| Gweithio o bell: | Hybrid - gweithio o bell hyd at 5 ddiwrnod yr wythnos |
| Cwmni: | Environment Agency |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 32526 |
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Are you passionate about the environment? Join us and help create a cleaner, safer and healthier environment for people and wildlife. Our producer responsibility work aims to ensure that waste resulting from packaging is recycled, either here in the UK or exported overseas to facilities where it is safely and effectively recycled – ‘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 South team within Collections & Packaging Regimes, part of Waste Markets and Shipments.
Find out about our wider team here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7fCgRW5SM.
As a Regulatory Officer, you will:
Undertake audit and enforcement work, both desk-based and in the field
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.
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.
The team
As part of the Packaging South team, you will be based in or near the South East. The team consists of Regulatory Officers and Senior Technical Officers who specialise in monitoring compliance at regulated sites, assessing processes and data to ensure conditions under the Packaging Waste Regulations are met. The team also undertake enforcement action where offences have occurred. The team is friendly, supportive and dedicated. 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 desk-based working as well as site visits.
You must hold a full valid UK driving licence as you will be required to travel and drive as part of the role.
You should be able to show us you are:
-effective, organised and able to prioritise
-confident/assertive
-IT/computer literate
-comfortable with numbers and handling large data sets
-passionate about the environment and keen to learn
And can:
-handle confrontational situations
-adapt your communication style to suit others to get your message across
-integrate into a team
-record information accurately
Don’t be put off applying if you don’t have a degree or similar - we value life experience.
This role will be based in the Packaging South team within Collections & Packaging Regimes, part of Waste Markets and Shipments.
Find out about our wider team here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7fCgRW5SM.
As a Regulatory Officer, you will:
Undertake audit and enforcement work, both desk-based and in the field
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.
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.
The team
As part of the Packaging South team, you will be based in or near the South East. The team consists of Regulatory Officers and Senior Technical Officers who specialise in monitoring compliance at regulated sites, assessing processes and data to ensure conditions under the Packaging Waste Regulations are met. The team also undertake enforcement action where offences have occurred. The team is friendly, supportive and dedicated. 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 desk-based working as well as site visits.
You must hold a full valid UK driving licence as you will be required to travel and drive as part of the role.
You should be able to show us you are:
-effective, organised and able to prioritise
-confident/assertive
-IT/computer literate
-comfortable with numbers and handling large data sets
-passionate about the environment and keen to learn
And can:
-handle confrontational situations
-adapt your communication style to suit others to get your message across
-integrate into a team
-record information accurately
Don’t be put off applying if you don’t have a degree or similar - we value life experience.