Field Monitoring Officer

2 days ago

Canterbury, United Kingdom Environment Agency Full time

We’re looking for a Field Monitoring Officer to help us deliver and collect quality environmental monitoring for National and Locally commissioned programmes. You'll take a range of samples including river water quality, effluents, bathing water, invertebrates, diatoms and groundwater boreholes.
- You will work towards qualifying as Officer In Charge for electric fishing surveys and will be involved in boat work, so experience of fieldwork and biosecurity good practice is essential. You will be using the CLICK scheduling tool and utilising this technology to enhance delivery. You will maintain, interpret and input into monitoring systems including MSIS, MIDAS and NFPD. You'll lead on the ordering of sampling equipment and maintaining the bottle & fishery stores. You will be an effective communicator, liaising with site contacts, members of the public and internal customers. You will train and mentor other team members to ensure consistent delivery to a high standard.
- The field work can be physically demanding and you will be required to sample in all weathers. You’ll be working alone for the majority of the time, so you’ll need to prioritise your Health, Safety and wellbeing, be self-motivated and organised.
- There will also be opportunity to support the Environment Agency’s Incident response.

The team
- We collect field-based samples and environmental data for both local, national and statutory requirements. The data collected provides key information for multiple teams working across the Environment Agency to serve diverse community and environmental needs.
- The Southeast Field Monitoring Team is dispersed and covers Kent and East Sussex
- This is a field-based role and requires extensive driving in urban and rural locations

Experience/skills required
- A full UK driving licence is essential for this role.
- The ability to train, mentor and develop staff on monitoring activities. Including instructing on the use of monitoring equipment, health, safety and wellbeing practices and the requirements of internal (users of the data) and external customers (site and landowners). Ability to maintain, interpret and input into key monitoring systems including MSIS, MIDAS and NFPD
- Other key requirements for this job include- Field sample collection experience
- Able to work independently as part of a dispersed team
- Good organisational skills
- Working in water confidently and safely
- Ability to communicate effectively with external and internal customers
- Required to use standard IT packages to deliver work as well as more specialised systems.
- Experience of biosecurity procedures.
- Experience of health, safety and wellbeing procedures including carrying out risk assessments of new sites.

Contact and additional information
- The base location for this role will be discussed at interview, reflecting where the current need is and will be either; Addington (Maidstone); Canterbury; Pevensey; Rye or Tonbridge where you will be required to pick up equipment and drop off samples most days. The majority of the time however you will be outside collecting data from different locations across the team territory.

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