Overview

The Team Leader will lead a team of officers focused on the regulation of water company activities, working with national and local colleagues. The team has a critical operational role to protect the environment, helping create a cleaner, safer and healthier environment for people and wildlife. The role involves addressing incidents and enforcement issues in the water industry, including high risk environmental challenges. This is a broad, multi-skilled leadership remit with diverse responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Manage and motivate experienced officers as well as those new to the business, with strong team management, performance and service delivery skills.
• Collaborate with compliance, enforcement and legal teams to establish and embed new ways of working.
• Maintain health, safety and wellbeing of the team, support development, identify training needs and manage ways of working to meet future requirements.
• Balance workload within the team to focus on areas delivering the greatest environmental benefit.
• Occasionally work in an office base with site visits; be flexible to work with teams in other locations or adapt to changing priorities.
• Take on incident roles to respond effectively to incidents or support business continuity, with potential for additional pay and full training and flexible working arrangements.
• Assist in shaping and communicating expectations with other teams and stakeholders; ensure truthful and accurate reporting of your own experience in any applications.

Essential Qualifications and Skills

• A full UK driving licence, as travel across a wide geographic area may be required.
• Strong leadership experience with the ability to lead and motivate teams to deliver shared goals.
• A track record of working collaboratively across teams or organisations.
• Knowledge of health, safety and wellbeing best practices.
• Experience in identifying, addressing, and resolving performance challenges constructively, fostering continuous improvement and accountability.

Desirable

• A coaching and mentoring approach to developing people, with the ability to prioritise effectively and balance team needs with wider organisational goals.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with a flexible, problem-solving mindset and evidence-based decision-making capability.

What’s on offer

• A salary of £41,617 per annum
• A generous pension scheme (currently 19% of pensionable pay)
• 27 days annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays
• Standby and incident response payments
• Flexible and hybrid working options
• Two paid environmental outcome days each year to volunteer in your community
• Extensive training and career development
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Part-time working considered on a case-by-case basis

About the Environment Agency

We continue to change the way we regulate water companies. Our regulation teams hold underperforming operators to account and ensure compliance with environmental law, preventing pollution and regulating sewage treatment works, storm overflows and the sewerage network. We are focused on raising standards, strengthening regulation and protecting the environment, with a commitment to inclusive, values-driven work. We are recruiting now because the work is urgent and growing.