Field Specialist Asset Management Operative

**Field Specialist Asset Management Operative - 32241**:
**Field Specialist Asset Management Operative - 32241**

Number of jobs available
- 1
Region
- South West
City/Town
- Bideford
Building/Site
- DEFRA GRP EA ALVERDISCOTT DEPOT, EX39 4FG
Grade
- Staff Grade 4
Post Type
- Permanent

Role Type
- Operational Delivery
Working Pattern
- Full Time
Salary Minimum
- £34,320
Closing Date:

- 16/11/2025, 23:55 hours
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- Basic Check
-Job description
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- Our Field Operations teams work towards protecting people and the environment by maintaining and operating our flood and coastal risk management assets across the country. We provide advice and support to our colleagues across the business and to external customers and stakeholders. We respond to flooding and environmental incidents both day and night and provide mutual aid which supports our colleagues and communities across the country when flooding incidents occur.

In this role, you will work closely with your Team Leader to:

- Complete our maintenance programme by planning, scheduling and resourcing works.
- Actively monitor the team’s work to ensure that high standards in health, safety and wellbeing are maintained whilst promoting a proactive culture. Working safely is paramount.
- Ensure we have clear and concise site paperwork and assist on projects, take responsibility for work specifications, and work collaboratively with internal and external partners.
- Ensure work sites are fully compliant to legal requirements and Environment Agency policies and procedures.
- Identify organise, and coordinate training to test our incident response plans.
- Assist in leading our operational response to flood and environmental incidents by participating and training in an incident role.
- In Devon Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 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.
The team
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- Field teams are the workforce of the Environment Agency. As our ‘frontline’, the field teams protect people and the environment by providing operational response during flood events, maintain our river and coastal assets and provide 24/7 response to maintain defences.

The field teams have a range of technical skills they use to deliver watercourse maintenance, along with asset maintenance and construction projects. The team’s work collaboratively across the organisation to achieve outcomes.
Experience/skills required
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- We are seeking proactive, self-motivated and confident communicators with experience working in field-based teams.

Through your experience you will be able to demonstrate the following:
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of managing Health and Safety on construction and maintenance sites.
- Competent IT literacy: the ability to use devices, Excel and databases.
- Good organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple, conflicting priorities.
- Good knowledge of Risk Assessment Method Statements (RAMS), Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) and Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER)
- Organisational skills and ability to work under pressure.
- Effective and inclusive leadership.
- A full UK Driving Licence.
- Desirable
- Health & Safety accreditations are advantageous.
- X63 CDM Principal Contractor accredited training is required for this role (but we will support you to work towards this via an internal course).
- We welcome all backgrounds, preferably with an interest in engineering and geography
-Contact and additional information
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- This role will be based at the Alverdiscott Depot, Bideford. It is an office-based role, but you will also be required to work outside in all weathers with travel across Devon.
Competence 1
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- Health Safety & Wellbeing
Description
-- Question: As a Field Specialist Asset Management Operative your role is key to ensuring that the risks to the team are controlled safely and effectively.

Please tell us about a time when you’ve led a team to carry out maintenance or construction activities. How did you approach health and safety, what environmental impacts of the work did you consider?
Competence 2
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- Programme and Project Management
Description
-- Question: The Field Specialist Asset Management Operative needs to work with the Team Leader and Field Operations Management and Maintenance Advisor to schedule the team’s work. This could be part of an annual program or single project. You would produce accurate and appropriate documentation (including site packs) within our bespoke IT packages, to enable work to be carried out on site.

Please tell us about your experience of producing documentation