Overview
We are looking for a professional individual with science or engineering qualifications and/or relevant experience of working in process industry, to regulate sites operating in a range of industrial sectors including Chemicals, Combustion, Waste Incineration, Food and Drink, Paper & Pulp, and Hazardous Waste treatment. Supporting and regulating industry will place you at the forefront of our aims to enable: Healthy air, land, and water; Sustainable growth; A nation resilient to climate change.
Your job will require you to work as part of a team and independently to use a wide range of regulatory and enforcement tools:
* leading site-based audits at industrial sites, assessing data and information to produce accurate and timely written assessments of the operator’s ability to protect the environment, prevent pollution and optimise use of resources.
* completing desk-top assessments of monitoring data, operational procedures and management systems.
* influencing and negotiating with operators to secure best practice, often dealing with people at senior levels within industry and the local stakeholder communities.
* where necessary setting conditions under which a site may continue to operate and enforcing the law should they fail to comply.
* responding and investigating environmental incidents and regulatory breaches, to ensure that remedial and enforcement actions are implemented.
You will need to be comfortable with a changing work environment and organisation, as we continue to transform the way we work, including our digital services, making our business more efficient and improving our customer service.
The team
Our team is part of the Regulated Industry department, based at our Darlington or Newcastle upon Tyne offices. We cover the Tees Valley industry cluster, Cleveland, Northumberland, Durham, and Tyne and Wear.
We regulate industry mainly under the Environmental Permitting Regulations but as part of the Joint Competent Authority, we also regulate sites alongside the Health and Safety Executive under the Control of Major Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations.
Experience/skills required
You will be able to demonstrate your relevant scientific/engineering qualifications (degree or equivalent) and/or experience of working in process industry or regulation. You may have, or be working towards, membership of a relevant professional body.
* Experience of environmental regulation and/or enforcement is desirable, but you’ll need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of being a trusted and effective regulator.
* You will be able to confidently and quickly deal with complex and fast changing situations by adopting a pragmatic approach, achieving the best outcomes for the environment. We take a “one team” approach, so whilst you’ll have good organisational skills, you’ll be able to flex and re-prioritise, working across teams to meet our aims.
* Experience of incident management is also desirable, we work with emergency responders and other professional partners to prepare and respond to a wide range of environmental incidents including pollution, flooding, drought and animal disease outbreaks.
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