Environment Specialist (Water Quality)

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South East

West Malling

Orchard House

Staff Grade 5

Permanent

Full Time

Environment & Sustainability, Operational Delivery

£37,462

If you’re passionate about our water environment and want to make a difference to the quality of our rivers and lakes in Kent, South London and East Sussex, then this might be the perfect role for you.

We are looking for someone enthusiastic and self-motivated, with experience of water quality issues to help review, challenge and advise on stakeholder plans and permissions, to ensure they protect and improve our freshwater environment.

You will work with national policy, colleagues, partners and key customers on aspects of water planning to help respond to current pressures and future demands. You will seek optimal solutions to environmental problems and advise on the regulatory requirements that will help us improve the quality of our rivers and lakes to create a better place for people, wildlife and the environment. You will also work with water companies to reduce the impacts from sewage discharges.

Knowledge or experience in some of the following areas would be very valuable in this role:

• Water company performance/regulation
• Water quality modelling
• Water company price review
• Urban Pollution Management processes and standards
• The Water Environment (Water Framework Directive) (England and Wales) Regulations 2017

We support membership of an appropriate professional institute such as CIWEM and encourage ongoing learning and development.

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.

The Integrated Environment Planning Team works to improve our evidence base and drive integrated delivery to achieve the best for Kent and South London’s environment.
The team includes specialists focusing on:

• River Basin Planning
• Commissioning our local monitoring activities
• Water Quality
• Water Company investment programmes
• Drought management.

We work with other teams locally and nationally to shape ways of working and contribute to our local and Defra’s 25-Year-Plan aims.

We value a diverse workforce and are fully committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.

The role will be based at Orchard House, Addington, Kent. We currently have a hybrid working arrangement with a mix of home and office working.

Interviews will be held in April 2023

For further details please contact Priya Sharma priya.sharma@environment-agency.gov.uk or Robert Callahan robert.callahan@environment-agency.gov.uk or call our customer contact number 03708 506 506 to have an informal chat about the role.