Agriculture Regulatory Inspection Officers

2 days ago


Blandford Forum, United Kingdom Environment Agency Full time

Do you have a good knowledge of agriculture or other regulation in England and want to improve our natural environment? Would you like to be at the forefront of agricultural change? This is an exciting opportunity as we are recruiting several new officers in Wessex to undertake regulatory inspections of farms.
- Agricultural practices can cause significant and chronic pollution to our precious water environment, often caused by leaks of slurry and silage effluent, and other materials, stored and spread on farms.
- We are looking for dynamic individuals ideally with experience and understanding of agriculture, or other regulatory activity, to work with farmers to increase their levels of compliance with existing environmental regulations. This will help safeguard and improve the future environment.
- In this role you will:
- carry out targeted farm visits
- engage with farmers to influence them to change their practice, which may involve difficult conversations
- collect and report on data and findings
- be willing to undertake regulatory enforcement action when needed, prosecutions and the serving of notices

Many are transferrable skills and training will be provided.

The team
- As a member of the Wessex Land and Water team, you will carry out targeted farm inspections to help improve farmer behaviours with respect to their local environment. You will be part of an operational team that is integral to delivering real environmental improvements.
- The Environment Agency works to create better places for people and wildlife and support sustainable development.

Experience/skills required
- The following skills are desirable:
- experience of working with farmers, on farms, the agriculture sector or other regulation
- an understanding of the complexities and challenges of working UK farms
- excellent communication and influencing skills
- an ability to have challenging conversations

You must have:
- a full UK driving licence
- IT skills (e.g. Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel), be comfortable using an iPad and a laptop on a daily basis, and be able to input inspection findings into systems.

Contact and additional information
- These roles will be based at Bridgwater, Blandford, Chippenham.
- You may be required to attend in hours incidents and can volunteer for out of hours incident working.
- Vehicle transport will be provided to allow site inspections.-
- Interviews will be hosted by video in July.



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