Enforcement Team Leader

Enforcement Team Leader
£41,617 (+£2,117 Weighting Allowance for London Abbey Wood
location)
Farnham, London SE2 (Abbey Wood), Reading, Wallingford, Welwyn Garden
City
Staff Grade: 5

Are you a motivated and enthusiastic professional ready to make a difference? You will lead on
establishing a new team of officers with the sole focus on the enforcement of water company
activities in our South East enforcement hub, working alongside a network of colleagues in
national and local teams.

Your team will have a critical operational role to protect the environment, helping create a
cleaner, safer and healthier environment for people and wildlife.

Your team will address incidents and enforcement issues in the water industry, including those
of reputationally and environmentally high risk. Such a broad scope of work calls for diverse,
multi-skilled teams. You will manage and motivate experienced officers as well as those new to
the business, so you’ll need to have good team management, performance and work delivery
skills. You’ll work with compliance, enforcement and legal teams to establish and embed new
ways of working.

Your role will include maintaining the health, safety and wellbeing of your team, supporting
them to develop themselves, identifying training needs and managing ways of working to ensure
we can meet the needs of the future. You will need to balance the work within your team to
ensure that they are focussed on the areas that will deliver the greatest environmental
benefit. 

You will mostly be office based with occasional site visits.

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. This may attract an additional payment and full
training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your
incident role.

We will provide comprehensive training and ensure you have the tools, equipment, and protective
clothing needed to carry out your duties safely and effectively.

There may be occasional overnight stays required, for example, to attend training courses.

The team 

The water industry enforcement team is dedicated to addressing serious and complex performance
issues within the water industry, driving improvements in compliance and environmental
standards. Based in our South East enforcement hub, one of four hubs across England, your team
will work closely with one or more water companies to achieve these goals.

The team brings specialist enforcement expertise to:

• Reduce environmental offences.
• Effectively tackle complex and serious offences.
• Manage intelligence at the local level.
• Provide expert enforcement advice and support to staff and managers.

Enhance prevention, intelligence, and enforcement capabilities.

What do I need?

With a track-record of collaborative working at all levels of an organisation, you’ll bring
skills in leading, managing and developing others. You will need:

Essential:

• Strong leadership skills demonstrated by successfully leading teams to work in
  collaboration to achieve objectives.
• Proven working knowledge of Health, Safety & Wellbeing.
• The role will require travel from time to time and so a full UK driving licence is
  required. Please note, if you are invited to interview we will contact you to conduct a DVLA
  driving licence check. More information on this process will be provided if you reach this
  stage of the recruitment process.

Desirable:

• Enthusiasm to achieve results and an ability to coach and mentor others to enhance their
  abilities and fostering their growth.
• The ability to work with a range of customers and stakeholders, whether internal or
  external to support our goals. The skills to both prioritise effectively for your team and with
  the wider business.
• A flexible approach to work and a capacity to make decisions using available information
  and evidence.
• Awareness of legislation relevant to permitting, investigating and/or information requests.

What’s in it for you: 

You’ll benefit from a culture that embraces difference and is inclusive where you’ll feel
supported and trusted to do the right thing. We’ll invest in you and allow you to grow and
shape your career. What’s more, you’ll have access to our great benefits package including: 

• A salary of £41,617 (+£2,117 Weighting Allowance for London Abbey Wood location).
• A generous pension scheme.
• Overtime opportunities through standby and incident pay.
• 27 days holiday + 8 bank holidays for full-time employees.
• Two days each year to spend taking part in activities that enhance the environment, engage
  with communities, or educate people about the environment.
• Great career opportunities.
• Maternity, paternity, and adoption leave scheme.

Options for flexible and / or part-time working will be considered on a case-by-case basis. 

As an organisation we strive to reflect the communities we serve. To achieve this, we welcome
applications from all backgrounds regardless of race, sexual orientation, and religion.

To learn more about these roles from those already in them, gain insight into the recruitment
process, and have the chance to ask your questions, join us for our candidate call on:

• Tuesday 11th March at 12pm

This will be held on Microsoft Teams and is open to all applicants. You do not need to have
submitted an application to join the call, just click the apply button for further information.

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. Don’t miss this opportunity to be part
of the UK’s biggest environmental organisation. Join us, and together, let’s tackle the
challenges of a changing climate and build a more sustainable future. Apply now and embark on a
rewarding and fulfilling career journey with the Environment Agency.

Closing date for applications is Monday 17th March
2025.

Interview Dates: w/c 31st March
& 7th April 2025.

Please note that a reserve list will be held, and you may be offered other roles in other
locations that may be similarly aligned to this role.