The Environment Agency are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We don’t just talk about diversity; we seek it, embrace it and live it, for the benefit of our staff, our communities and our environment. Everyone starting in a new role will be welcomed into the team and given all the training and support needed. As part of your comprehensive induction, you will be provided with all the equipment required for your role.
If you’re passionate about our water environment and want to make a difference to the quality of our surface waters in Yorkshire, then this might be the perfect role for you.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated individual 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, area delivery and key customers on aspects of strategic water planning to help plan our response to current pressures and future demands.
You will work closely with water companies to reduce the impacts from sewage discharges. Therefore, knowledge or experience of some of the following would be an advantage:
• Water Framework Directive
• water industry wastewater management
• water company performance/regulation
• river and/or lake water quality modelling
• water company price review or asset management plans
• Urban Pollution Management processes and standards
Working with colleagues and partners, you will seek optimal solutions to environmental problems, and advise on the regulatory requirements that will help us improve the quality of our surface waters to create a better place for people, wildlife and the environment.
The team
The Integrated Environment Planning (IEP) team is predominantly a water planning team with specialists in water resources, water quality and river basin planning.
Working with area operational teams, national policy makers and other stakeholders, in particular water companies, we produce the environmental plans that drive Yorkshire area priorities.
Our diverse and friendly team of advisors are at the heart of environmental decision making, facilitating integrated actions to solve complex problems.
Experience/skills required
Essential: A degree in a relevant environmental discipline.
Desirable: Membership of, or working towards a membership of, a relevant professional institute (e.g. CIWEM).
You will have good knowledge and experience of water quality planning, preferably gained through working with water companies. The ability and experience to lead technical conversations with both internal and external partners.
Ability to demonstrate leadership in a specialist technical area.
Good research/analysis skills, supporting an ability to make proportionate, evidence-based inferences/proposals from information.
Experience of gathering, maintaining and quality-assuring data/information.
Good organisational skills/discipline and the ability to plan, track, deliver and evaluate work.
Ability to work under own initiative and as part of a larger, cross-functional/multidisciplinary team.
Sensitive to the needs of the internal and external customers and able to deliver outcomes through these.
Ability to prioritise and deliver work to relevant standards and tight deadlines.
Experience of translating internal guidance into local delivery.