Principal Depot Liaison Officer - Ely, United Kingdom - Environment Agency

Environment Agency

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Ely, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Number of jobs available- - Region- East of England

City/Town
Ely

Building/Site

Depot

Grade
Staff Grade
Post Type
Permanent

Working Pattern

Full Time

Role Type

Operational Delivery, Risk Management

Salary Minimum £25,04

Job description
We have an exciting opportunity within our Operations department for a Principal Depot Liaison Officer.

In this role, you will:

Plan and supervise the daytoday running of the Environment Agency Principal Depot at Ely Cambridgeshire, with duties including the secure storage, maintenance and deployment of equipment such as pumps, flood barriers, aerators and our incident command vehicle.
Help manage our stock of flood risk management assets and liaise with national colleagues and our professional partners.
Maintain an uptodate asset inventory, logging equipment and its status, and managing the movement of deployed assets.
Be responsible for managing our small tools, lifting equipment, life jackets and PPE for Field teams based at our Ely Depot.
Make sure that plant and fleet vehicles are maintained to a high standard and that all checks have been undertaken to maintain compliance.
Have sufficient skill and knowledge of information technology to be able to keep an uptodate inventory for maintaining the supply and demand of equipment.
Understand the Health and Safety (HS&W) risks, including but not limited to, maintaining depot standards and using plant and equipment while protecting the environment.
Be expected to deliver some incident response training to colleagues with the appropriate training.

Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do.

You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident.

This may attract an additional payment and full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role.

If you want to be a part of the climate change challenge, in a team of dedicated professionals, then this is the role for you.

The team- The team is based at our Principal Depot in Ely.

We deliver a maintenance program on watercourses across the area, and we respond to flooding and environmental incidents both day and night.

We work closely with our colleagues in Asset Performance, Hydrometry & Telemetry, and Fisheries, Biodiversity and Geomorphology.
We also work across the country when called upon to assist other areas in incident response and environmental incidents.

Experience/skills required
Essential:
You should demonstrate the ability to deliver results where performance targets are crucial and problems must be resolved quickly.
Good organisational skills and a proven ability to work under pressure during incidents is essential.
You must understand site health and safety requirements
Strong people skills and the ability to motivate and engage others and be comfortable with managing external suppliers, such as equipment maintainers and logistics/transport staff visiting the site.
A full UK driving licence.

You'll need to live within 45 minutes' drive of the Ely depot for incident response purposes.

Contact and additional information- In East Anglia we want to create a diverse workplace where people are respected, valued and listened to.

We're all different, and by embracing Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) we can become an equal opportunity employer where jointly we all grow and learn together.

It is our ambition to champion diversity through building a workforce as diverse as the communities we serve.