Installations Regulatory Officer - 32063

Are you a recent graduate or a career professional passionate about sustainability and environmental impact? Join our dynamic team as a Regulatory Officer and help shape a cleaner, greener future by regulating waste and industrial sites across the Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire area.
What You will Do
As part of our frontline regulatory team, you’ll:
• Conduct compliance assessments at sites including landfill, biowaste, incineration, and hazardous waste
• Ensure operators meet environmental permit conditions and prevent pollution
• Investigate environmental incidents and support corrective actions
• Influence best practice across industry, communities, and stakeholders using your communication and negotiation skills
No specialist experience? No problem. We’ll support your development in a specific industrial area and provide tailored training to help you thrive.

About the Team

You will be part of a collaborative team regulating sectors from chemicals and combustion to food & drink and hazardous waste. We also work closely with the Health & Safety Executive under COMAH regulations, giving you exposure to high-impact environmental work.

Location & Working Style

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

Ideally, you will have:
• A degree (or equivalent) in environmental science, engineering, or a related discipline
• A proactive, self-motivated mindset
• Strong communication and influencing skills
• Technical or regulatory interest in waste or industrial sectors

Following training, you’ll take on an incident management role, which may include out-of-hours standby duties. A full UK driving license 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.
Interviews will take place throughout November and will be capability questions , with a roleplay scenario or technical assessment

If you have 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?

UK driving licence