Team Member 2a - Leicester, United Kingdom - Environment Agency

Environment Agency

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Leicester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Number of jobs available- - Region- East Midlands

City/Town
Leicester

Building/Site

Rothley Offices & Depot

Grade

Team Member
Post Type
Permanent

Working Pattern

Full Time

Role Type

Operational Delivery

Salary Minimum £21,01

Job description
Within our Operations Field Teams, you'll be part of an incident response team helping to prevent flooding and pollution incidents. To counteract the causes of flooding you will help manage and maintain river defences.

Your primary role will be incident response acting quickly when floods or environmental emergencies occur, so you'll take part in a 24-hour emergency call out rota to respond and operate our assets such as pumps, sluices and flood gates, clear grids and blockages.

Your secondary role is to maintain flood defences, in doing so you'll protect people, property and infrastructure from flooding. This physical role involves working in a team, outside in all weathers.

In this particular role you will undertake a range of activities that could include power tools, chainsaws, strimmers, pedestrian and remote-control mowers.

You will be involved in debris and tree clearance and asset maintenance using plant, equipment and machinery on a regular basis to complete your tasks.

In all aspects of your work you will be expected to adhere to the Environment Agencies policies and procedures such as CDM 2015, safe systems of work and be responsible for the health, safety and wellbeing of yourself and the others around you.

All new starters will be enrolled onto the Water Environment Worker apprenticeship, which will take around 18 months to complete.

On successful completion, you will be able to register as a technician member of Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM).

The team
Our Operations Field Team is based at Rothley Depot, 56 Town Green Street, Rothley LE7 7NW. We maintain flood defences across Leicestershire and respond to flooding and environmental incidents both day and night. We provide advice and support to our colleagues in Asset Performance, Hydrometrics, Biodiversity and Environment Management. We also work across the country when called upon to assist other areas in flood and environmental incident response.
Experience/skills requiredYou should demonstrate a positive adaptable approach and a 'can do' attitude as a worthy team player. Good organisational skills and a proven ability to work under pressure during incidents are essential. You must understand site health, safety and wellbeing requirements and you'll need good communication skills to work with customers and partners.

We would like you to have a good level of environmental awareness and experience with tablet style computers and familiarity with mobile technology.

Experience/skills desirable

Contact and additional information- We are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve and to promoting equality and diversity in all we do.

The grade rate for this role is Team Member 2 and a full valid driving licence is essential. You will be required to make your own way to the depot every morning.

You will be expected to participate in our incident response on-call rota to respond to emergencies out-of-hours and work in inclement weather conditions.