Location
Darlington, Romsey, Nottingham, Warrington, Ipswich, Central London (Flexible/Hybrid working with regular travel across England, including possible overnight stays)

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£68,820 - £80,575 per annum

About the Role
Are you ready to make a real difference? Join the Environment Agency's High Hazard specialist team as a Regulatory Manager on a 12-month fixed term contract. You will lead a new dedicated, values-driven regulatory team focused on enhancing regulation of COMAH (Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations 2015) sites across England. This operational role involves providing direction to your team, embedding new regulatory roles, and building assurance within local operations to deliver an effective COMAH regime that reduces environmental impact and prevents major accidents.

You will oversee the delivery and assurance of regulation for nationally and politically significant sites, aligning COMAH regulation with environmental objectives, anticipating trends, and identifying opportunities for intelligence-driven regulation to maximise environmental improvement. As a leader, you will coach your team through cultural and business change, maintain their health, safety and wellbeing, and manage ways of working to meet future needs.

Your role requires effective collaboration across the organisation, working agilely to deliver outcomes. You will lead a team comprising Principal and Senior Regulatory Officers, managing regulatory compliance through inspections, audits, and incident investigations. You will also have an incident management role, supported by training and additional payments.

Benefits include a generous pension scheme (19%), overtime opportunities, 27 days holiday plus bank holidays and additional paid environmental outcome days, training and professional development, and flexible working policies to support work-life balance.

This is a national role with an EA office base location and flexible/hybrid working arrangements. Regular travel across England is required.

Experience
- Proven leadership skills with experience managing dispersed teams to achieve collaborative objectives.
- Strong knowledge of environmental pressures impacting major industries.
- Understanding of COMAH Regulations or relevant regulatory/industry experience.
- Experience providing high-level advice, guidance, and sound judgement on regulatory activities.
- Proven ability to manage complex, multi-faceted, and time-critical activities.
- Demonstrated ability to build respectful, collaborative working relationships.
- Proven working knowledge of Health, Safety & Wellbeing.
- Full UK driving licence.

About you
- Strong strategic mindset with the ability to align regulation with environmental objectives.
- Effective communication and influencing skills with a strong customer focus.
- Analytical thinker with a proactive, positive, and problem-solving approach.
- Ability to work flexibly and at pace in a dynamic environment.
- Emotional intelligence to lead and coach teams through change.
- Commitment to maintaining team health, safety, and wellbeing.

Qualifications
- Degree in a Scientific or Engineering subject (desirable).
- Good technical understanding of Environmental Regulation, either from a regulatory or industry perspective (desirable).
- Membership or working towards membership of a relevant professional body (desirable).