Field Monitoring Officer (G3) Nottingham

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East Midlands

Nottingham

Trentside Offices

Staff Grade 3

Permanent

Full Time

Operational Delivery

£25,042

We’re looking for a Field Monitoring Officer to help us deliver and collect quality environmental monitoring. You'll take a range of samples including river water quality, effluents, bathing water, invertebrates, diatoms and groundwater boreholes.
You will work towards qualifying as an Officer in Charge for electric fishing surveys and will be involved in boat work, so experience of fieldwork and biosecurity good practice is essential. You will be using a scheduling tool and utilising this technology to enhance delivery. You will maintain, interpret, and input into monitoring systems. You'll lead on the ordering of sampling equipment and maintaining the bottle & fishery stores. You will be an effective communicator, liaising with site contacts, members of the public and internal customers. You will train and mentor other team members to ensure consistent delivery to a high standard.
The field work can be physically demanding, and you will be required to sample in all weathers. You’ll be working alone for long periods of time, so you’ll need to prioritise your Health, Safety and wellbeing, be self-motivated and organised.

There will also be opportunity to support the Environment Agency’s Incident response.

We collect field-based samples and environmental data for both local, national, and statutory requirements. The data collected provides key information to serve diverse community and environmental needs.
The Lincolnshire and East Midlands Team is based across Lincolnshire, South Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire. You will be also expected to work across boundaries to support other teams. This is a field-based role and requires long, extensive driving in urban and rural locations.

A full UK driving licence is essential for this role.
Experience/Skills required:

• Field sample collection experience
• Training and mentoring staff
• Able to work independently as part of a dispersed team
• Good organisational skills
• Working in water confidently and safely
• Ability to communicate effectively with external and internal customers
• Required to use standard IT packages to deliver work as well as more specialised systems
• Experience of health, safety and wellbeing procedures including carrying out risk assessments

Desirable:

• Electric fishing experience
• Freshwater fish identification
• Experience of biosecurity procedures

This role is 37 hours/week Monday to Friday. We welcome flexible working patterns so clearly include any information on your application. This post benefits from flexitime.
You will be provided with a badged vehicle. The base location for this role is Trentside Office, Nottingham where you will drop off samples most days. The majority of the time you will be outside collecting data from locations across the East Midlands and Lincolnshire.
For enquiries about the role: James Orchard on 07557176752 or by email – james.orchard@environment-agency.gov.uk. We welcome applications from individuals of any age, gender, or ethnic background. What matters most to us is that you want to make a real, practical contribution to protecting the environment.