Asset Inspector Water Land and Biodiversity Team

**Asset Inspector Water Land and Biodiversity Team - 32341**:
**Asset Inspector Water Land and Biodiversity Team - 32341**

Number of jobs available
- 1
Region
- South East
City/Town
- Canterbury, Sevenoaks, West Malling
Building/Site
- DEFRA GRP EA ORCHARD HOUSE, ME19 5SH, DEFRA GRP EA RIVERS HOUSE CANTERBURY, CT2 0AA, DEFRA GRP EA TONBRIDGE OFFICE, TN11 9AS
Grade
- Staff Grade 3
Post Type
- Permanent

Role Type
- Health and Safety, Knowledge & Information Management, Programme and Project Management, Risk Management
Working Pattern
- Full Time, Part Time/Job Share
Salary Minimum
- £29,751
Closing Date:

- 01/12/2025, 23:55 hours
Job description attachment 1
- Job Profile - 32341.pdf - 71KB Opens in a new window
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- Security checks level
- Basic Check
-Job description
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- We are seeking to appoint an Asset Management Inspector to support the delivery of our Water, Land and Biodiversity (WLB) asset work across the Kent, South London and East Sussex area (KSLES). In this role you will ensure our assets remain safe, effective and resilient, while supporting future investment planning.

We want to create a diverse workplace where people are respected, valued and listened to. We’re all different, and by embracing Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) we can become an equal opportunity employer where jointly we all grow and learn together.

It is our ambition to champion diversity through building a workforce as diverse as the communities we serve.

You will be expected to manage your own workload and work flexibly according to the demands of the role, with support from colleagues.

Knowing the condition of our assets underpins our risk based approached to asset management. The information is used to help us plan our work and target our resources.

You will be collecting information on WLB assets out on site and carrying out a programme of visual inspections to determine asset condition, identify issues and liaise with colleagues to correct defects. You will also be desk-based processing the asset information in our asset management information system.

This role will include:

- Inspecting WLB assets across the KSLES area, this would be around 3 days a week
- With guidance, processing and cleansing asset data
- Assisting WLB area and national asset management staff where required.
- Assisting Area WLB Asset Management Technical lead
-The team
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- The WLB Asset Team sits within Environment Management Department in Local Operations. You will report to the WLB Asset Team Leader, who will guide your workload alongside the area Asset Management Technical Lead.

We are a dynamic, adaptable and inclusive team. You will be required to be flexible and adapt your ways of working according to changing guidance and new evidence.

You will work with several different teams and attend sites across the KSLES area.
Experience/skills required
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- Essential:

- Ability to manage a varied workload
- Full UK Driving License to access all the sites in the KSLES area. You will be provided with a Badged van.
- It would be helpful, but not essential, if you had:

- An Interest in improving the environment for future generations
- Ability to develop and maintain good relationships with internal and external customers
- Deliver work by planning, tracking, gathering and maintaining data/information
- Working under own initiative and as part of a team to achieve planned outcomes
- Good organisational skills
- Strong Excel skills and an ability to use MS Teams
- Proficiency in IT and confidence in managing data are also key requirements.
-Contact and additional information
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- You can choose Addington, Canterbury, or Tonbridge as your base location, however, It is important that you are based within the KSLES area to ensure you can visit sites easily. We also allow some flexibility to work from home.

The post is full-time although other work patterns will be considered.
Competence 1
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- Manages Self
Description
-- Please can you give example(s) of how you have managed workloads to achieve a desired objective, which demonstrates your ability to plan, assess and deliver the outcome?
Competence 2
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- Data and Information Management
Description
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- An Asset Management Inspector will typically spend 3 days in the field collecting data and 2 days in the office preparing and cleansing the data following guidance. Please give an example of when you have had to analyse and interpret a large data set.

What was the situation?
How did you ensure data quality was maintained?
Competence 3
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- Health Safety & Wellbeing
Description
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- Tell us about a time when you made sure your own behaviour reduced the Health and Safety risk to you or others.
Role specific license requirements
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- Full UK Driving Licence - A Badged Environment Agency Van will be provided for site visits