National Monitoring Technical Officer - Beverley, United Kingdom - Environment Agency

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Number of jobs available- - Region- Yorkshire and the Humber

  • City/Town
  • Beverley, Rotherham, York


  • Building/Site

  • Templeborough, Riccall Depot, Crosskill House


  • Grade

  • Staff Grade
  • Post Type
  • Permanent


  • Working Pattern

  • Full Time


  • Role Type

  • Operational Delivery


  • Salary Minimum £29,70

  • Job description
  • As a member of a National Monitoring Field team, you will lead on the planning and delivery of the fisheries monitoring programme across parts of Yorkshire, Northeast Derbyshire, and North Lincolnshire.

You will lead and coordinate the delivery of technical training and mentoring of staff on monitoring activities including the Officer in Charge (OIC) qualification to ensure a consistent and professional service.

This role will instruct on the use of monitoring equipment and health, safety, and wellbeing (HSW) practices.

You will play a prominent leadership role in the team and in promoting a positive HSW culture within the team and across National Field Monitoring.

As a supervisor, you will support the Team Leader and provide operational and technical leadership to the rest of the team.

You'll contribute to the delivery of all monitoring activities including the planning and collection of our environmental monitoring programme.

You are recognised as a key contact for national, local, and external customers and will have a full understanding of their requirements and actively participate in projects to ensure consistency and best practice.

You will maintain, interpret, and input into key monitoring systems including NFPD, HabScore, MSIS, Field Service, RouteLIMS and WIMS/ MIDAS.


  • The team
  • The Yorkshire team is dispersed and covers Yorkshire, parts of Northeast Derbyshire and North Lincolnshire.
We collect samples and environmental data for local, national, and statutory requirements. The data collected provides information for teams working across the Environment Agency to serve diverse community and environmental needs.
The role requires field work, extensive rural & urban driving, and office-based responsibilities. The main fish store is at Riccall depot.

  • Experience/skills required
  • A full UK driving licence is essential.
You will have experience in leading fish surveys including various electro-fishing methods. Freshwater fish identification skills are essential. You will be proficient in ecology and water chemistry monitoring techniques.

The ability to co-ordinate the delivery of technical training and mentoring to staff on monitoring activities including the Officer in Charge qualification.

Experience of leading on HSW procedures including carrying out risk assessments of new sites and existing sites and active monitoring of others.

Ability to maintain, interpret and input into standard IT packages and key monitoring systems including NFPD, HabScore, Field Service, MSIS and WIMS.

Other key requirements

  • Excellent Leadership skills
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Working in water confidently and safely
  • The ability to problem solve
  • Able to work unsupervised as part of a dispersed team
  • Ability to communicate effectively with external and internal customers
  • Experience of biosecurity procedures.
  • Contact and additional informationThe base location for this role will be Riccall but we will consider others. Your time will be split between working in the field across the team territory and at an office location.
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