What you’ll be doing
as a Senior Environmental Permitting Specialist
1. Managing ongoing permit applications, including coordinating the progression of existing environmental permit applications.
2. Prepare, draft and submit new permit applications where required.
3. Ensure all submissions are compliant with relevant regulations and reflect current operational requirements.
4. Maintain up-to-date permit trackers, document control and document management.
5. Support the Wastewater Permitting Team as a technical lead on permitting and water discharge matters and the technical development of the team members through coaching and mentoring.
6. Negotiate with the Environment Agency regarding new permits and changes to existing permits, submitting applications where necessary, related to Capital Schemes.
7. Representing TWUL in technical meetings with other Water Companies and the Environment Agency.
This position will be working Hybrid from Clearwater Court in Reading, although other Thames Water locations will be considered. The salary for this position is up to £59,000 per annum depending on experience.
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need are:
8. Subject matter expert in Water Discharge Activity Environmental Permitting.
9. Evidence of strong communication and relationship-building skills.
10. Full understanding of the regulatory framework applicable to the Water Industry, including the requirements of the Environmental Permitting Regulations and the associated Environment Agency’s guidance.
11. Experience or academic background in an environmental, regulatory or water industry-related discipline.
12. Excellent planning, organisation, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to negotiate and liaise with stakeholders.
13. Strong technical writing skills and ability to write clear, structured technical documents and coordinate complex permit applications.
Additional skills and experiences would be great to have/bring:
14. An operational background in water, wastewater, air emissions, waste, or similar regulated industries and/or the regulator.
15. Evidence of working flexibly across organisations, building and/or improving ways of working and embedding them into organisations.
16. Advocate for the environment with a demonstrable track record of compliance and environmental excellence.
17. Experience in coaching and mentoring others in a technical discipline.
18. Degree in Environmental Sciences, Environmental Management, Data Management or a related field.
19. Excellent IT literacy (including Excel & Power BI) to enable learning of internal data systems.
20. Strong analytical background.
What’s in it for you?
21. Competitive salary up to £59,000 per annum.
22. Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays)
23. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to both company and individual performance measures and targets.
24. Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
25. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.