Flood and Coastal Risk Management

1 day ago


Sale, United Kingdom Environment Agency Full time

Climate change and how we adapt and become more resilient to its impact is important in the work we do. At the Environment Agency our philosophy is that we should do more than just survive a changing climate: our aspiration is to help the country thrive in it. This is your opportunity to come and work with us and help make a difference to the environment and communities in our area.
- Working in our one of our Operations teams you will be helping the teams manage and operate our flood defence assets across Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire.
- The work is varied so you may be working on supporting funding bids, asset replacement programmes, contingency planning, or maintenance and repair programmes. Part of your role will be managing the team’s enquiries mailbox and providing admin support for meetings, procurement and work planning.
- After a period of training you will take on an incident response role which may be office or field based depending on your preference and the hours you are able to work.

The team
- Our Field Teams and Asset Performance Teams are responsible for ensuring that our flood defence assets are constructed, inspected, maintained, and operated in a safe, effective, and efficient manner. Our assets reduce flood risk to people and property, so they must operate when required to our agreed service levels and standards. During a flood event, we operate our flood assets and work closely with partner organisations to protect people and property.

Experience/skills required
- We are looking for people with great communication skills and customer focus, who can work well with others. You will have a good working knowledge of range of IT packages, including MS Office and good planning and data management skills. As we carry out some unique activities, we provide in-house and on the job training for most of our activities.
- 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

A driving licence is desirable but not essential.

Contact and additional information- We operate a hybrid working approach with some days required in our office at Sale, Greater Manchester.
- Interviews will be held on MS Teams in November.
- The annual salary for this role is £24,213



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