As part of a team of highly professional Waste Regulators, you will play a leading role in tackling a diverse range of environmental challenges in sectors such as Biowaste, Landfill, Deposit for Recovery, Waste Treatment and Hazardous Waste. You will also be expected to play a leading role overseeing permitted facilities requiring an enforcement response.
- You will audit industrial and waste sites ensuring they comply with permitted arrangements, making complex assessments of their ability to protect the environment, prevent pollution and optimise use of resources.
- You will use your influencing and negotiating skills to secure best practice often dealing with people at senior levels within industry and the local stakeholder communities.
- Where necessary you will set conditions under which a site may continue to operate and enforce the law should they fail to comply. You will also respond to and investigate incidents making sure suitable preventive and protective action is implemented.
- You will demonstrate excellent technical leadership to all of our staff across a range of Waste issues. As well as regulating industry directly, you’ll put your technical leadership skills to work by helping to plan, deliver and assure the department’s work.
Everyone that joins us is required to undertake training and participate in incident response duties when the need to respond arises, having an incident role is an essential part of working for the Environment Agency and is an active way to support communities and prevent harm to the environment. Further information on incident response can be found within your candidate pack.
