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15/02/2026, 23:55 hours
ER04 Job Family Role Profile Environment & Regulation, Grade 4
Do you want to work for an organisation that values difference and includes everyone? Then the Environment Agency is the organisation for you! We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share.
The Regulatory Officer role will be based in Waste Shipments within Environmental Markets and Regulation. We’re a national team with officers based across England, ensuring a consistent regulatory approach across the country.
As a department we ensure that companies are disposing of their waste correctly by enforcing government regulations – ‘right waste, right place’.
You will be key to planning, monitoring and delivering compliance and enforcement activity within your area of waste regulation, to drive a circular economy.
Find out about our wider team here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7fCgRW5SM
As a Regulatory Officer, you will:
Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident. Full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role. This may attract an additional payment.
Please see the candidate pack for further information.
We are looking for applicants who can demonstrate:
We offer an attractive and competitive benefits package including: A fantastic pension scheme, competitive salary, flexible working and a starting annual leave allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays (pro rata). For more information please see the candidate pack. Interviews for the Regulatory Officer role are expected to take place in between 9th and 20th March in Reading or Birmingham. You will need to be comfortable with working in a dispersed team. The Environment Agency utilise a hybrid working approach, including office and home working. We may use the outcomes from this recruitment for future vacancies within the next 12 months.
For an informal discussion please contact Mark Bowhay mark.bowhay@environment-agency.gov.uk.
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This Vacancy is closed to applications.