34188 - Technical Support Officer
| Posting date: | 10 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £29,751 per year, pro rata |
| Additional salary information: | Fixed Term Up to 1 Year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 April 2026 |
| Location: | Warrington |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 5 days per week |
| Company: | Environment Agency |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 34188 |
Summary
As a Water Resources Technical Assistant in Land and Water you will have a varied role supporting Environment Officers, Senior Environment Officers and Team Leaders. You will join a team delivering regulatory activities to ensure achievement of environmental outcomes. The role is office based and will cover a range of activities including:
Management of a shared team mailbox
Coordinating record management and assurance activities
Collecting and managing data
Arranging team meetings and events
Coordinate debt recovery work
Supporting and planning water resources activities
Support in admin of incident management and training records
General support for team and team leaders
If you have good transferable skills in communicating, organisation and prioritisation, and are passionate about protecting and improving our natural environment, we welcome your application.
We will provide training, and you will be supported by experienced colleagues in your ongoing professional development.
The team
You will join one of the Land & Water Teams covering the Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire area. You will be based in our Warrington Office but a wide range of options for working from home or other office locations are available. The Land & Water teams have a varied workstream making a real difference on issues such as water resources, pollution, agriculture, water quality, water company regulation and incident management
Experience/skills required
In your capability-based answers please demonstrate your:
ability to work effectively with people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures and actively encourage others to consider diversity issues in their work.
You'll be able to demonstrate that you have experience of, or skills in:
Effective communication both written and verbal
A good customer focus with the ability to understand customer needs and manage customer expectations
Making decisions and solving problems to achieve positive outcomes
Organising and prioritising your workload
Deal with sensitive and confidential information appropriately
Operate and maintain data and information systems with the ability to interpret data and prepare basic reports
You will also need
An interest in the environmental sector and willingness to learn
Ability to use IT systems
A good level of literacy and numeracy
You’ll have a range of development opportunities and appropriate training will be provided.
Management of a shared team mailbox
Coordinating record management and assurance activities
Collecting and managing data
Arranging team meetings and events
Coordinate debt recovery work
Supporting and planning water resources activities
Support in admin of incident management and training records
General support for team and team leaders
If you have good transferable skills in communicating, organisation and prioritisation, and are passionate about protecting and improving our natural environment, we welcome your application.
We will provide training, and you will be supported by experienced colleagues in your ongoing professional development.
The team
You will join one of the Land & Water Teams covering the Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire area. You will be based in our Warrington Office but a wide range of options for working from home or other office locations are available. The Land & Water teams have a varied workstream making a real difference on issues such as water resources, pollution, agriculture, water quality, water company regulation and incident management
Experience/skills required
In your capability-based answers please demonstrate your:
ability to work effectively with people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures and actively encourage others to consider diversity issues in their work.
You'll be able to demonstrate that you have experience of, or skills in:
Effective communication both written and verbal
A good customer focus with the ability to understand customer needs and manage customer expectations
Making decisions and solving problems to achieve positive outcomes
Organising and prioritising your workload
Deal with sensitive and confidential information appropriately
Operate and maintain data and information systems with the ability to interpret data and prepare basic reports
You will also need
An interest in the environmental sector and willingness to learn
Ability to use IT systems
A good level of literacy and numeracy
You’ll have a range of development opportunities and appropriate training will be provided.