Environment Agency
Regulatory Officer (Process Industry – Installations) - 34696
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Job Description
Role Overview
You will need to be comfortable with a changing work environment and organisation, as we continue to transform the way we work, making our business more efficient and improving our customer service.
At the Environment Agency we aspire for inclusivity to thrive in our workforce. We embrace equal opportunities and flexible work arrangements, ensuring everyone can contribute and succeed.
You will require you to use a wide range of regulatory and enforcement tools:
- Site-based audits at industrial sites, assessing data and information to make written assessments of the operator’s ability to protect the environment, prevent pollution and optimise use of resources.
- Desk-top assessments of monitoring data, operational procedures and management systems.
- Influencing and negotiating with operators to secure best practice, often dealing with people at senior levels within industry and the local stakeholder communities.
- Setting conditions under which a site may continue to operate and enforcing the law should they fail to comply.
- Responding to and investigating environmental incidents and regulatory breaches, ensuring that suitable remedial and enforcement actions are implemented.
Aims
Supporting and regulating industry will place you at the forefront of our aims to enable:
- Healthy air, land, and water,
- Sustainable growth, and
- A nation resilient to climate change.
The Team
Are you passionate about protecting the environment whilst helping industry thrive?
Our team is part of the Regulated Industry department, based in the Northeast. We cover the Tees Valley industry cluster, Cleveland, Northumberland, Durham, and Tyne and Wear.
We regulate industry mainly under the Environmental Permitting Regulations but as part of the Joint Competent Authority, we also regulate sites alongside the Health and Safety Executive under the Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations.
Experience/Skills Required
Essential Criteria
- Technical knowledge of process industry, pollution control and experience of regulating under the Environmental Permitting regime and/or significant industrial experience such as chemicals manufacturing, pharmaceutical, hazardous waste treatment or energy sectors.
- Regulatory compliance experience through inspection/auditing as a regulator or from your relevant industrial experience.
- Excellent communication, reporting and influencing skills in complex environments.
- Ability to work independently, delivering regulatory compliance and enforcement work using multiple IT systems in line with a work plan, providing assurance to your manager.
- Experience of working with internal and external partners addressing joint initiatives and regulatory duties.
- Proactive continuous improvement approach.
- Degree (or equivalent) in science, environmental or engineering subject or comparable experience.
- Full UK Driving Licence.
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Desirable Criteria
- Membership of a relevant professional institution or working towards.
- Environmental Management Systems auditing and root cause analysis knowledge.
- Experience of interpreting environmental monitoring and performance data.
- Incident response experience (multi-agency approach desirable)
Contact and Additional Information
You’ll have an inclusive incident management objective in your development plan. We’ll help you find a role to suit your needs. Appropriate training will be given.
You’ll be based either in our Newcastle or Darlington office, hybrid working is possible.
We use smart tools to stay connected and reduce travel; some travel and overnights may be required.
Please read the Candidate / Additional Information Pack for information. Any queries, contact Iain Barker Jones on 02030255318 or Iain.Barker-Jones@environment-agency.gov.uk
Applications are “blind” assessed using your answers to the competency questions.
If you consent to being held on a reserve list, we’ll hold your details for 6 months and may offer you an alternative post.
Competency Questions
Competence 1: Takes Decisions and Solves Problems
Description
Finds and delivers optimal solutions by effectively analysing all the information, probing to develop alternatives and taking sound and timely decisions.
Please describe a time when you had to take a difficult decision or solve a complex problem.
More information on how to answer competency questions can be found in the candidate pack.
Competence 2: Achieves Results
Description
Sets and delivers high work standards, demonstrates the drive to meet targets. Prioritises and organises tasks and resources to ensure timely achievement of results.
Please tell us about a time when you have delivered a project or complex piece of work.
Competence 3: Builds and Sustains Relationships
Description
Develops and maintains effective working relationships.
Please describe a time when you have worked with others to develop an effective working relation in order to achieve your goals.
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Competence 4: Influences and Persuades Others
Description
Presenting a case in a convincing and attractive way that will win people over, encouraging them to follow plans willingly; often succeeding where logic and reason alone would fail.
Please describe a time when you had to overcome resistance to influence or persuade others to take a course of action that required a significant change or investment for them.
Role Specific License Requirements
Full UK Driving Licence
Additional Information
We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.
We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment. We have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
The Environment Agency, as a Non-Departmental Public Body, is committed to providing value for money and utilises Central Government frameworks and contracts for all external recruitment needs. For this reason, we are unable to engage with the market directly through post, email or phone calls. Should you wish to become a support supplier on one of these frameworks or contracts please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/become-a-crown-commercial-service-supplier/becoming-a-supplier-through-the-crown-commercial-service-what-you-need-to-know for more information.
Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Although the Environment Agency is a non-departmental public body sponsored by Defra, we subscribe to and align with the candidate guidance on the use of artificial intelligence found on the Civil Service Careers website. Please review for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
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