Water Quality Integrated Environment Planning

1 week ago

Nottingham, United Kingdom Environment Agency Full time

We are the Environment Agency. We protect and improve the environment. If you’re passionate about our water environment and want to improve water quality in the lakes and rivers in East Midlands, then this could be the role for you.
- If you are an enthusiastic, self-motivated individual with experience of either Water Framework Directive, river or lake modelling, or environmental permitting, you could help lead our local response to current pressures and future demands.
- You will work on a variety of aspects of strategic water planning to understand the risks, find solutions, and work with those who can effect change. You will also review, challenge and advise stakeholder plans and permissions, and ensure they comply with environmental regulations.
- A significant part of the role will be working with water companies to reduce the impacts from sewage discharges. Therefore, knowledge or experience of some of the following would be an advantage:
- water industry wastewater management
- water company price review or asset management plans
- Urban Pollution Management processes and standards

Working collaboratively with colleagues and partners you will help us improve and protect this precious resource for people and wildlife, for now and for the future.

The team
- The East Midland’s 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 East Midland’s area priorities.
- Our friendly team of advisors are at the heart of environmental decision making, facilitating integrated actions to solve complex problems.

Experience/skills required
- 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 them.
- Ability to prioritise and deliver work to relevant standards and tight deadlines.
- Experience of translating internal guidance and instructions into local delivery.
- Essential: A degree ( or equivalent) in a relevant environmental discipline.
- Desirable: Membership of, or working towards a membership of, a relevant professional institute (e.g. CIWEM)

Contact and additional information
- The information you supply about the capabilities will be used for interview selection, so ensure you demonstrate your skills and experience in your response.- Our flexible working practices support a healthy work/life balance and offer numerous choices to help accommodate the demands that various personal commitments may present. Training and learning opportunities are available for those wanting to progress their career.

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