Environmental Enforcement Team Leader

Kingdom Services Group; Northampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Environmental Enforcement Team Leader to guide their dedicated team in making communities cleaner and safer. This role involves providing frontline leadership, engaging with the public, and ensuring compliance with environmental laws. You will be instrumental in issuing Fixed Penalty Notices and supporting your team in various operational tasks. If you are passionate about environmental protection and community service, this role offers a rewarding opportunity to make a significant impact in your area. Join a supportive team that values training and career development, and help drive positive change in your community.

Benefits

Contributory pension scheme

Friendly and supportive team

Training and career development

Overtime opportunities

Access to advanced pay scheme

Employee Assistance Program

Wellbeing Support

Qualifications

• Experience in a similar leadership role is essential.
• Knowledge of Environmental Protection Act 1990 is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Environmental Protection Team and issue Fixed Penalty Notices.
• Liaise with the Council and provide statistical data.
• Conduct officer appraisals and ensure team performance.

Skills

Leadership

Customer Service

Communication

Integrity

Education

Full UK Manual Driving Licence

Job description

Overview

Reference: 16036b

Salary: £14.49 - £14.49/hour

Hours: On average 40 hours per week, Shifts as per site rota (rotational weekends). Monday to Sunday, 8 hour shifts between 07:00am - 19:00pm.

Location: United Kingdom -- England -- East Midlands -- Northamptonshire -- Northampton

Job Type: Permanent

Posted: 01 April 2025

Kingdom Local Authority Support (Kingdom) is the leading, most experienced and largest supplier to Local Authorities providing services to tackle environmental crime, including littering, fly tipping business waste compliance, anti-social behaviour, and illegal street trading. Kingdom provides accredited training packages, career development plans (with 100% of our management team proving their worth as officers before being promoted) and are the most experienced provider, ensuring for the best-in-class training to upskill our teams in all relevant legislation and operational knowledge. Kingdom has a vision to make the UK a cleaner, safer, and greener place to live. To support us in achieving our vision we are currently recruiting an Environmental Enforcement Team Leader in your area.

Please note: For this role you must have held a full UK manual driving licence for at least 1 year.

Where: Northampton, NN1 area.

When: We're looking to get the right person in to the team ASAP!

Hours: On average 37.5 hours per week, shifts as per site rota (rotational weekends). Monday to Sunday, between 07:00am - 19:00pm.

Salary: £14.00 per hour.

Please note: a clean full UK manual driving licence is required for this role as you will be driving a company vehicle.

What's in it for you?

• Contributory pension scheme.
• A friendly and supportive team.
• Training, career development & progression opportunities.
• Overtime opportunities.
• Access to advanced / early pay scheme.
• Kingdom Colleague App including Employee Assistance Program and Wellbeing Support.

About the role:

The role will require you to lead by example and provide front line leadership, resilience and back-office support to your Environmental Protection Team. Your team will be responsible for patrolling the borough working in line with the relevant local authority's deployment strategy and issuing Fixed Penalty Notices to offenders in contravention of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and policing act 2014.

We are looking for an experienced leader who has experience of engaging with members of the public face to face. You will have the ability to act with integrity and honesty, whilst treating people with respect in what could be a difficult situation.

This is a challenging but rewarding role and if you are passionate about the environment and supporting the local community, this role will enable you to make a real difference.

Main Responsibilities:

• Assist the Council in relation to the investigation of complaints made by members of public.
• Daily liaison with the Council.
• Provide statistical data to the Council and deal with freedom of information requests.
• Leading from the front and issuing Fixed Penalty Notices whilst in your front-line role.
• Monitor conduct and performance of the team.
• Ensure the smooth running of the team.
• Provide theory and front-line training to new team members.
• Provide on the ground support as and when required.
• Documentation of processes across the enforcement teams.
• Keep up to date with legislations and relay this information to the team.
• Conduct officer appraisals.
• Compile initial prosecution file and liaise with Local Authority legal team.
• Any other reasonable task under Instruction of Operations Manager.
• Produce statistical reports on a daily, monthly and yearly basis.

About you:

• Experience in a similar leadership role is essential.
• Knowledge of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 and Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and policing act 2014 would be advantageous.
• The ability to communicate with offenders, often in demanding circumstances in a professional manner.
• Previous experience in a customer service role and handling difficult situations in a professional manner.
• Be happy working outdoors, on foot in all seasons carrying out foot patrols for prolonged periods of time.
• Professional in approach, with a balanced sense of judgement and be able to act with conscience and integrity.
• Have the ability to use your own initiative when carrying out your role, as well as being able to work within a team environment.

If you would like to be a part of the Kingdom family of services, please apply now we would love to talk to you!