Specialist Asset Management Field Operative - 25613
27
East of England, London, North East, North West, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber
Abbeytown, Barnsley , Bedford , Beverley , Bideford , Blandford Forum , Bridgwater , Chelmsford , Chippenham , Cramlington , Darlington , Dorchester , Ely , Exeter , Leigh , London, Norwich , Redruth , Sale , Smethwick , Southminster , Wadebridge , Ware , Winsford
Staff Grade 4
Permanent
Full Time, Part Time, Part Time/Job Share
Operational Delivery
£29,706
Do you want to work for an organisation that makes a difference? 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.
The Environment Agency is a Category 1 responder, and everyone has a role to play. You’ll be expected to take part in a regular standby roster, which means you'll be available to respond to an incident or emergency 24/7 over a 7-day period. We’ll help you to identify an incident role that fits with your skills, experience, and personal circumstances. You will get additional pay and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you.
The role is primarily an office-based role, but you will also be required to work outside in all weathers.
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.
The Environment Agency is a Category 1 responder, and everyone has a role to play. You’ll be expected to take part in a regular standby roster, which means you'll be available to respond to an incident or emergency 24/7 over a 7-day period. We’ll help you to identify an incident role that fits with your skills, experience, and personal circumstances. You will get additional pay and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you.
The role is primarily an office-based role, but you will also be required to work outside in all weathers.
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.
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.
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:
• 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.
Qualifications/Licences:
• Health & Safety accreditations are advantageous.
• UK Driving Licence.
• X63 CDM Principal Contractor accredited training is required 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.
Through your experience you will be able to demonstrate the following:
• 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.
Qualifications/Licences:
• Health & Safety accreditations are advantageous.
• UK Driving Licence.
• X63 CDM Principal Contractor accredited training is required 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.
We have a mixture of Permanent and Fixed Term Contract positions available, across multiple locations. Please thoroughly read the attached Candidate Pack and Additional Information document for a full breakdown of what is available, and where, and clearly note your location preference on the application form.
The Environment Agency are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We don’t just talk about diversity; we seek it, embrace it and live it, for the benefit of our staff, our communities and our environment. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share.
For questions relating to this role, please contact: eatalent@environment-agency.gov.uk
Interviews will be held across the fortnight commencing Monday 3rd April.
The Environment Agency are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We don’t just talk about diversity; we seek it, embrace it and live it, for the benefit of our staff, our communities and our environment. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share.
For questions relating to this role, please contact: eatalent@environment-agency.gov.uk
Interviews will be held across the fortnight commencing Monday 3rd April.
06/03/2023, 23:55 hours
Basic Check
Health Safety & Wellbeing
Description: Making sure that risks to your team are controlled safely and effectively.
Please note that your answers to the capability questions will be used for shortlisting purposes. Your examples do not necessarily have to be work related, please use the best example from any area of your life. You may find researching the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result) useful when answering the questions.
As a Specialist Team Member your role is key to ensuring that the risks to the team are controlled safely and effectively. Please tell us about your approach to health, safety and the environment for on-site working. How have you helped ensure that people work safely, whilst also considering the environmental impacts of the work?
Please note that your answers to the capability questions will be used for shortlisting purposes. Your examples do not necessarily have to be work related, please use the best example from any area of your life. You may find researching the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result) useful when answering the questions.
As a Specialist Team Member your role is key to ensuring that the risks to the team are controlled safely and effectively. Please tell us about your approach to health, safety and the environment for on-site working. How have you helped ensure that people work safely, whilst also considering the environmental impacts of the work?
Programme and Project Management
Description: Selects, plans and manages contractors, programmes or events to achieve a set of Environment Agency objectives cost-effectively.
Please note that your answers to the capability questions will be used for shortlisting purposes. Your examples do not necessarily have to be work related, please use the best example from any area of your life. You may find researching the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result) useful when answering the questions.
As a Specialist Team Member, you will need to work closely with your Team Leader to help schedule the team’s work, and to produce accurate and appropriate paperwork/documentation (including site packs) to enable work to be carried out on site. Please tell us about your experience of producing documentation for site work, managing contractors or similar?
Please note that your answers to the capability questions will be used for shortlisting purposes. Your examples do not necessarily have to be work related, please use the best example from any area of your life. You may find researching the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result) useful when answering the questions.
As a Specialist Team Member, you will need to work closely with your Team Leader to help schedule the team’s work, and to produce accurate and appropriate paperwork/documentation (including site packs) to enable work to be carried out on site. Please tell us about your experience of producing documentation for site work, managing contractors or similar?
Communicates Effectively
Description: Listens and questions to understand and engage. Conveys information and ideas clearly, accurately and persuasively through speech and writing.
Please note that your answers to the capability questions will be used for shortlisting purposes. Your examples do not necessarily have to be work related, please use the best example from any area of your life. You may find researching the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result) useful when answering the questions.
A Specialist Team Member regularly interacts with landowners and members of the public, as well as team members and other colleagues, so you will need to be able to communicate confidently and professionally.
Please tell us how your personal approach ensures you provide clear and effective communication to others, and provide an example of how you have previously dealt with a difficult situation to ensure a positive outcome?
Please note that your answers to the capability questions will be used for shortlisting purposes. Your examples do not necessarily have to be work related, please use the best example from any area of your life. You may find researching the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result) useful when answering the questions.
A Specialist Team Member regularly interacts with landowners and members of the public, as well as team members and other colleagues, so you will need to be able to communicate confidently and professionally.
Please tell us how your personal approach ensures you provide clear and effective communication to others, and provide an example of how you have previously dealt with a difficult situation to ensure a positive outcome?
Site Management
Please note that this competency will not be scored, and your response here will not affect your application in any way.
We have a mixture of Permanent and Fixed Term Contract positions available, across multiple locations. Please thoroughly read the table found in the 'Additional Information' document which is attached to the advert, for a full breakdown of what is available and where.
In addition to the table found in the 'Additional Information' document, we now also have positions available in Essex (Chelmsford/Southminster), the North East (Darlington/Cramlington), and additional positions in Yorkshire (Selby/Beverley)
Please clearly state your depot location preference here.
We have a mixture of Permanent and Fixed Term Contract positions available, across multiple locations. Please thoroughly read the table found in the 'Additional Information' document which is attached to the advert, for a full breakdown of what is available and where.
In addition to the table found in the 'Additional Information' document, we now also have positions available in Essex (Chelmsford/Southminster), the North East (Darlington/Cramlington), and additional positions in Yorkshire (Selby/Beverley)
Please clearly state your depot location preference here.
Full UK Driving Licence
If you are applying from the Civil Service please note that the Environment Agency is not a part of HM Civil Service and you would not be a Crown Servant in the event of being appointed. Therefore, you will not be eligible for continuous service. For applicants who currently work in local government or other bodies listed in the Redundancy Payments (Continuity of Employment in Local Government etc) (Modification) Order 1999, you may be eligible for continuous service for the purpose of calculating any future redundancy payment. If you are unsure of your status then you should contact your own HR Team.
We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.
We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment. We have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
The Environment Agency, as a Non-Departmental Public Body, is committed to providing value for money and utilises Central Government frameworks and contracts for all external recruitment needs. For this reason, we are unable to engage with the market directly through post, email or phone calls . Should you wish to become a support supplier on one of these frameworks or contracts please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/become-a-crown-commercial-service-supplier/becoming-a-supplier-through-the-crown-commercial-service-what-you-need-to-know for more information.
We are fully committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please include clearly any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application.
We also have a Guaranteed Interview Policy to support those with a disability who are seeking employment. We have committed to guaranteeing an interview to anyone with a disability whose application meets the minimum criteria for the post.
The Environment Agency, as a Non-Departmental Public Body, is committed to providing value for money and utilises Central Government frameworks and contracts for all external recruitment needs. For this reason, we are unable to engage with the market directly through post, email or phone calls . Should you wish to become a support supplier on one of these frameworks or contracts please visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/become-a-crown-commercial-service-supplier/becoming-a-supplier-through-the-crown-commercial-service-what-you-need-to-know for more information.
This Vacancy is closed to applications.