Operations Field Services Team Leader (Colne) - 13619

As Field Team Leader you will provide strong, dynamic leadership and direction to your team. Supporting and equipping them to operate and maintain flood risk management assets, ensuring that they can deliver an effective, professional response to flood risk and environmental incidents. Your team member's health, safety and wellbeing will be central to your role.

You will ensure that your team has the required training, capability and tools to undertake their work safely and to act as the public face of the Environment Agency, liaising directly with customers.

You'll work with external partners, suppliers and landowners, as well as with internal teams, to plan the future maintenance needs of the catchment. Your strong leadership will maintain the high standard of corporate and professional behaviours expected of the team, support our organisational ambition to be world-leading asset managers and ensure successful delivery of our maintenance programme.

Ongoing personal development is important and you'll have the opportunity to gain further skills and knowledge which will compliment and further enhance your capabilities as an effective leader and manager within the organisation.

You will be a part of the Essex Operations Leadership team supporting the Operations Manager to provide leadership across the whole department.

The team comprises of around 12 people, including administrative support, specialist team members and skilled operatives. They are primarily focussed on the delivery of a programme of revenue and capital work on river and coastal assets in and around Essex. Predominately operating in the catchment area of the river Colne in North Essex. They support incident response both day and night in our area as well as across the country when called upon.

You should be able to demonstrate:
Excellent people skills and experience of leading a team.
Experience in motivating people to deliver to their full potential, with a track record of managing staff wellbeing effectively and delivering against corporate targets.
A strong understanding of Health & Safety legislation, risk management procedures and practices including CDM and confident in managing and mitigating health and safety risks.
Well-developed communication and influencing skills.
Experience of managing performance fairly and effectively.
The ability to prioritise tasks and to quickly adapt to changing situations.
Experience of programme and financial management.
Experience of working with a range of customers both internal and external and delivering excellent customer service
Ideally some knowledge of civil, mechanical or electrical engineering or asset management.
Evidence of significant experience of successfully working in a similar role.

A full UK driving licence is essential.

Some standby and on-call work will be required. You'll also be required to take part in incident response. Your line manager will confirm the specific arrangements with you depending on your role.

The information in the candidate pack and job profile available below, should be read along with the advert in order to understand the key accountabilities and skills needed to succeed in this role.

CVs / documents attached to your application will not be assessed for selection. It is your answers given to the competency questions below that will be used for interview selection so ensure you draw out your skills and experience in your responses.

If you have any questions please contact the hiring manager: David Knagg - david.knagg@environment-agency.gov.uk or on 02084745983

Please tell us about your experience of being in a leadership role.
How you have inspired and motivated people to deliver work and achieve organisational outcomes whilst supporting them to achieve their own personal goals?
What key skills do you believe you have which make you an effective leader?

In this role you will need to actively make many decisions on a day to day basis. For some you will have limited information and time, others will require greater consideration due to the risks and complexities involved.
Please give example(s) of when you have made timely decisions and solved problems. Explain what key skills you believe you have that make you an effective decision maker?

As the Team Leader you will ensure that health and safety risks arising from your team's activities are effectively managed and controlled.
Please give example(s) of when you have managed either the health and safety of a team or your own health and safety when carrying out activities. Explain how you controlled and reduced the risks.

This job will not only involve working with your own team but other teams, partners and stakeholders. You will need to work in collaboration and on occasions influence them in order gain acceptance of your ideas, objectives and plans.
Please give example(s) of when you have done this before. What do you believe makes you a good influencer?

Full Driving Licence