Location
Welwyn Garden City / London Abbey Wood (+£2,117 PA outer London weighting for this location only)
Hours
Full-time (part-time to be considered on a case-by-case basis)
Salary
£41,617 per annum
About the Role
Are you ready to take on a leadership role that makes a real difference? Join the Environment Agency’s new water industry regulation teams and help lead the fight against growing and increasingly complex environmental crime. Our regulation teams hold water companies to account, ensuring compliance with environmental law while recognising their crucial role in managing the water cycle - collecting, treating and returning water to the environment without causing harm.
Your team will focus on preventing pollution, regulating sewage treatment works, storm overflows, and ensuring compliance across the sewerage network. With increased scrutiny on sewage pollution, this is a pivotal moment to join us as we raise standards, strengthen regulation, and protect the environment.
As a Team Leader, you will manage a team of officers addressing incidents and enforcement issues in the water industry, including high-risk reputational and environmental cases. You will motivate and develop your team, balancing workloads to deliver the greatest environmental benefit. You will work closely with compliance, enforcement, and legal teams to embed new ways of working.
This role is mostly office based with occasional site visits. While recruited into a specific area with a designated office base, flexibility is important as you may work with teams in other locations or adapt to changing priorities.
We offer a supportive organisation that values inclusivity and difference, flexible and hybrid working options, a generous pension scheme, 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays, standby and incident response payments, two paid environmental outcome days each year, extensive training and career development, and generous parental leave.
Experience
Strong leadership experience with a proven ability to lead and motivate teams to deliver shared goals. A track record of working collaboratively across teams or organisations. Experience in identifying, addressing, and resolving performance challenges constructively, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and accountability. Working knowledge of health, safety and wellbeing best practices.
About you
An experienced and motivated leader who can inspire and develop others, manage operational demands, and support regulatory outcomes. You bring excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, a flexible and problem-solving mindset, and evidence-based decision-making capability. A coaching and mentoring approach to developing people, along with the ability to prioritise effectively and balance team needs with wider organisational goals, is desirable.
Qualifications
A full UK driving licence is essential as the role may involve travel across a wide geographic area.
