This is an exciting opportunity for an individual to contribute to Thames Water’s mitigation of enforcement risk arising from non‑compliances against an environmental permit conditions and/or pollution incidents.
You will be part of a team coordinating and facilitating the business’s enforcement response. This includes corresponding with the Environment Agency across a variety of communication mediums. This high‑profile role will involve working with our legal team at Eversheds Sutherland, senior leadership and the EA. As a result, you will gain exposure across the business at all levels and contribute towards the company's wider environmental compliance function.
What you’ll be doing as a Regulatory Enforcement Advisor
* Support Thames Water in navigating Environment Agency criminal investigations by coordinating and facilitating regulatory deadlines, reviewing factual basis of formal information requests and alleged offences, and liaising with Environmental Services to clarify discrepancies.
* Work closely with internal stakeholders to gather and assess relevant information, ensuring mitigation measures and actions are robust, reduce recurrence risk, satisfy EA expectations, and manage enforcement and reputational risk while meeting regulatory obligations.
* Apply the Environment Agency’s Enforcement and Sanctions Policy in day‑to‑day work, ensuring responses and actions align with regulatory expectations.
* Chair and facilitate meetings with information providers, communicate objectives, ensure actions are agreed, owned and tracked to completion.
* Produce high‑quality, clear, professional written documentation.
Base location: Hybrid - Clearwater Court, Vastern Rd, Reading RG1 8DB.
Requirements for the role: Occasional travel to sites.
Working hours: 36 hours, Monday‑Friday.
What you should bring to the role
* Demonstrable experience of excellent interpersonal and organisational skills, managing multiple regulatory deadlines, prioritising workload and contributing to team service level agreements.
* Confidence in communicating with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, providing constructive professional challenge and robust assurance.
* Ability to produce clear, concise reports, interpret quantitative and qualitative data, and communicate insights accessibly to non‑specialist audiences.
* Awareness of the Environment Agency’s Common Incident Classification Scheme, Compliance Classification Scheme, WIRI and Enforcement and Sanctions Policy, and the ability to apply these frameworks in practice.
* Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and SharePoint.
* Environmental Science, Legal or Investigative degree (or equivalent qualification) would be advantageous.
What’s in it for you?
* Competitive salary of up to £50,000 per annum, depending on experience.
* Annual leave – 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with length of service (plus bank holidays).
* Performance‑related pay plan linked to company performance measures and targets.
* Generous pension scheme through AON.
* Access to benefits to support health, wellbeing and finances: health MOTs, physiotherapy, counselling, Cycle to Work, shopping vouchers, life assurance.
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