Permitting & Regulatory Specialist

idibu; England; Hybrid; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK water company is seeking a Permitting & Regulatory Specialist. This role ensures compliance with environmental permits and submits necessary reports. Responsibilities include acting as a technical expert and supporting regulatory monitoring. Candidates should have a degree in Environmental Science or related fields, experience in environmental data management, strong analytical skills, and a passion for enhancing environmental performance. The position offers hybrid working from Reading, competitive salary, and various benefits.

Benefits

26 days holiday per year

Generous Pension Scheme

Health and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Experience with environmental regulations is required.
• Ability to advocate for the environment with a track record of compliance.
• Practical understanding of environmental permitting.

Responsibilities

• Act as the technical expert on Environmental Permits monitoring.
• Support regulatory monitoring & reporting requirements.
• Provide performance status to internal stakeholders.

Skills

Experience in managing environmental data and preparing regulatory reports

Excellent planning and organization skills

Strong analytical background, including Excel & Power BI

Excellent verbal/written communication skills

A passion to improve environmental performance

Education

Degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Management or a related field

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

Overview

As the UK’s largest water company, we are taking action for a new world of water – fixing the problems of today and building resilience for tomorrow.

Our environmental performance is monitored and evaluated by our regulators using a range of measures, such as our compliance with our environmental permits, and the number and severity of pollutions incidents that we cause, which in turn informs our Environmental Performance Assessment (EPA). The regulator uses our data from Operator Self-Monitoring (OSM), Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive monitoring (UWWTD), and Air emissions monitoring to evaluate our environmental performance and compliance with our permits.

Permitting & Regulatory Specialist

This role ensures compliance with the reporting requirements of our Environmental permits and submits the necessary regulatory reports so our environmental performance can be assessed. The role provides stakeholders within the business – Senior managers & the Exec – with data and a summary of our compliance position in numerical and FE flow limits and the requirements of our Air & Waste permits.

The role is a new multidisciplinary position across Water Discharge and Installations permitting regimes. It works alongside existing roles that fulfil regulatory reporting requirements and supports business notifications of new permit changes.

Key responsibilities

• Act as the technical subject matter expert on monitoring and reporting requirements of Environmental Permits
• Support with the regulatory monitoring & reporting requirements of Installation Environmental Permits
• Support with the regulatory monitoring & reporting requirements of Water Discharge Environmental Permits
• Provision of monitoring data and performance status to internal stakeholders
• Provision of information to the Regulator and stakeholders

Location

Hybrid working from our Reading office

Working Pattern

Full-time, Monday–Friday (36 hours per week)

Salary

£46,565 – £53,000 per annum based on experience.

What you’ll bring to the role

• Experience in managing environmental data and preparing regulatory reports
• Excellent planning, organisation, and verbal/written communication skills
• Evidence of working flexibly across organisations, building and / or improving ways of working and embedding them into organisations
• A passion to improve our environmental performance.
• Strong analytical background, including Excel & Power Bi
• Excellent IT literacy to enable learning of internal data systems, for example Equis

Extra qualities

• Advocate for the environment with a demonstrable track record of compliance and environmental excellence
• An operational background in water, wastewater, or similar regulated industries
• Practical understanding of environmental permitting and the associated Environment Agency guidance
• Experience working with environmental regulations
• Degree in Environmental Science, Environmental Management or Data Management or a related field.

What’s in it for you

• Competitive salary from £46,565 and £53,000 per annum depending on experience.
• 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus, bank holidays)
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

Disclaimer

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.