What you’ll be doing
as an Environmental Permitting Specialist
1. Managing environmental permits linked to our water discharge activities, ensuring we’re always operating with accurate, up-to-date regulatory information.
2. Providing expert advice to internal teams on how environmental permitting affects operational and capital delivery projects.
3. Negotiating with the Environment Agency on new permits or changes to existing ones, ensuring regulatory requirements are met while protecting Thames Water’s interests.
4. Supporting AMP8 and WINEP programme delivery, helping projects achieve compliance through strong permitting foundations.
5. Representing the business in discussions with regulators and across internal teams to ensure accurate, timely, and high-quality submissions.
6. Contributing to the continuous improvement of permitting processes, internal reporting, and compliance tracking.
This position will be working in a Hybrid environment from any of our locations with travel to Clearwater Court in Reading once or twice a month. The salary for this position is up to £55,000, depending on experience.
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need are:
7. Experience or interest in environmental permitting, regulation, or compliance.
8. Excellent communication, organisation, and collaboration skills.
9. A passion for sustainability and improving environmental outcomes.
10. 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:
11. Degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Management, Data Management, or similar.
12. Experience working in regulated environments (water, wastewater, emissions, waste).
13. Understanding of Environment Agency guidance and permitting frameworks.
14. Experience in operational or project delivery teams within the utility or infrastructure sector.
15. Strong IT skills including Microsoft Excel and data systems (Power BI experience a plus).
What’s in it for you?
16. Competitive salary up to £55,000 per annum.
17. Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
18. Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
19. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
20. 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.