Installations Regulatory Officer (Landfill) - 32068

Are you passionate about protecting the environment? We’re looking for driven individuals to join our team to focus on the regulation of our landfill sites. In this role, you’ll oversee landfill site compliance across the region of Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire—playing a vital part in safeguarding communities and the environment.

What You’ll Do

• Regulate a portfolio of landfill sites and ensure permit compliance
• Conduct site inspections and respond to environmental incidents
• Leading enforcement actions and audits—both virtual and on-site
• Analyse environmental monitoring data to drive performance
• Provide technical advice across teams and support wider regulatory efforts
• Use your influence and negotiation skills to promote best practice

You’ll cover the Greater Manchester, Merseyside, and Cheshire regions, with flexibility for site visits and home working with our base office in Warrington.

Our regulatory teams work across diverse industrial and rural landscapes, united by a strong collaborative culture. The Installations Team ensures compliance at permitted sites and engages with senior stakeholders, communities, and industry leaders.

What We’re Looking For

Ideally, you’ll have:
• Experience in waste or landfill regulation or industry
• Familiarity with environmental management systems, auditing, and root cause analysis
• Ability to interpret environmental monitoring and performance data
• Experience managing multiple priorities independently
• A continuous improvement mindset
• A degree (or equivalent) in a scientific, environmental, or engineering discipline
• Membership of a relevant professional organisation (preferred)

Following training, you’ll take on an incident management role, which may include out-of-hours standby duties. A full UK driving licence is required, and a pool or hire vehicle will be provided for business travel.
If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact and grow your career in environmental regulation, we’d love to hear from you.
For any questions about the role, please contact Chris.pritchard@environment-agency.gov.uk

Has full awareness of own strengths, weaknesses, impact and approach. Effectively organises self and takes personal responsibility for own role in the Environment Agency.
Please tell us how you manage your own workload including how you identify and resource priorities and how you ensure that work is delivered to the required standard and on time.

Finds and delivers optimal solutions by effectively analysing all the information, probing to develop alternatives and taking sound and timely decisions.
Please tell us about a complex decision you have had to make and how you reached your conclusion.
What was the issue?
What information did you need in order to solve it?
What made it complex?

Presenting a case in a convincing and attractive way that will win people over, encouraging them to follow plans willingly; often succeeding where logic and reason alone would fail.
Please tell us a time when you have persuaded an individual or company to achieve an outcome without the use of a regulatory tool:
Consider what techniques you used, did you need to adapt your style and what you leaned from your approach.

Listens and questions to understand and engage. Conveys information and ideas clearly, accurately and persuasively through speech and writing

Describe a time when you have had to communicate effectively with a large number of stakeholders.

What was the issue?
What method of communication did you use?
How did you go about making sure that your message was understood by all stakeholders?
How did you check their understanding?
What was the result?

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