Field Monitoring Fish Technical Officer - Worthing, United Kingdom - Environment Agency

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Number of jobs available- - Region- South East

  • City/Town
  • Worthing, Pevensey


  • Building/Site

  • Pevensey Office, Guildbourne 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 the National Monitoring Field Team you will lead on the planning and delivery of the fisheries monitoring programme across the Sussex area.

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 leadership role in promoting a positive HSW culture within the team and across the National Field Team.

As a supervisory role, 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.

You will maintain, interpret and input into key monitoring systems including NFPD, HabScore, CLICK, MSIS, MIDAS, RouteLims and WIMS.

You will contribute to the wider team by actively participating in networks, groups and projects to ensure consistency and best practice.


  • The team
  • The Sussex Team is dispersed and covers the whole of East and West Sussex, as well as the River Wey catchment and parts of the River Mole catchment and into the west edge of Kent.
We collect field based samples and environmental data for both local, national and statutory requirements. The data collected provides information for teams working across the Environment Agency to serve diverse community and environmental needs.

  • Experience/skills required
  • A full UK driving licence is essential.
You will have experience in leading fisheries 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 monitoring databases.
Other key requirements

  • Able to work unsupervised as part of a dispersed team
  • Leadership skills with the ability to problem solve
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Working in water confidently and safely
  • Ability to communicate effectively with external and internal customers
  • Experience of biosecurity procedures.
  • Contact and additional informationThe base location for this role will be Pevensey or Worthing with fish survey operations based from Shoreham and Guildford. Your time will be split between working in the field across the team territory and at an office location.
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