Flood and Coastal Risk Management Team Member - 34001

This is an exciting opportunity to join an Asset Performance team in the UK’s biggest environmental organisation. We manage flood risk assets across Essex to ensure they protect our communities from the risk of flooding. As professional Asset Managers, you will be part of a team inspecting, maintaining and refurbishing flood risk assets which include kilometres of riverbanks, sluice gates and flood storage reservoirs among other things.  

We are seeking applicants with a passion for asset management or engineering and a drive to protect our communities at risk of flooding. You will have asset or data management experience, preferably in the water environment.  

Your enthusiasm and positive attitude will help you find solutions that deliver our priorities. You will help manage our asset data to ensure it is of the best quality and can be relied on to inform our future investment programme. This may include site work to understand our asset base and to collect, analyse and interpret information to ensure we manage it well. You will be trained to undertake inspections of our assets.  

Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role (Flood Incident Duty Officer) and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident. This may attract an additional payment and full training, and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.  

You’ll have a range of development opportunities and appropriate training will be provided.  

We offer a fantastic benefits package including an attractive salary, flexible working, 25 days annual leave, and an award-winning Pension Fund. See the candidate pack for more details. 

Asset Performance Teams sit within the Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) Department in the Local Operations Directorate. They manage flood and coastal erosion risk assets to reduce the impact of flooding. We do this by managing the whole lifecycle of our assets, including the effects of climate change through planning, delivery, maintenance and decommissioning. 

The team this role is to join cover Essex and your base office location will be Chelmsford. 

This role requires excellent organisation and prioritisation skills to ensure our assets are maintained to the required standards using our Asset Information Management System, Geographical Information System (GIS), and other IT systems. You will be proficient with the Microsoft Office suite of programs.

You’ll be an excellent team player and make decisions based on data and evidence. Great verbal and written communication skills are essential as you will be liaising with customers, colleagues and members of the public.  

On occasions you will be completing site work, this can include walking long distances as part of asset inspections, sometimes in adverse weather. 

You may be a recent graduate or have experience with an organisation in the environmental or water sector. Experience with one of the following: GIS, data management, engineering or asset management would be advantageous. You’ll be able to learn, adapt, communicate and use your initiative to solve problems. 

As this role requires office working and site visits on a regular basis, you will ideally be based within Essex. Your base office location will be Chelmsford with occasional travel to one of our other Environment Agency offices. There may be some hybrid working options, but the expectation is that you will be in the office or out doing inspections during the working week. 

Please read the Candidate and generic role profile for more information. 

For questions relating to this role, please do contact ann.connett@environment-agency.gov.uk.

Applications are “blind” assessed using your answers to the competency questions 
 
Interviews will be held face to face at our Chelmsford office and are planned for the week commencing 8th June 2026, but this may be subject to change