Team Leader - Bodmin, United Kingdom - Environment Agency

Environment Agency
Environment Agency
Verified Company
Bodmin, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter
Description
Number of jobs available- - Region- South West

  • City/Town
  • Bodmin


  • Building/Site

  • Sir John Moore House


  • Grade

  • Staff Grade
  • Post Type
  • Permanent


  • Working Pattern

  • Full Time


  • Role Type

  • Operational Delivery


  • Salary Minimum £37,46

  • Job description
  • We are looking for an enthusiastic, selfmotivated and inspirational person to lead the National Monitoring Field Team in Cornwall. You will be based in Bodmin and cover a dispersed team in Cornwall. Regular travel to meet team members in the field will be expected.

You will manage and be responsible for a dispersed front-line team who collect a variety of chemical, physical and biological samples to deliver the National and Area environmental monitoring programmes.

Being organised and confident in dealing with a wide range of customers and stakeholders is important and you will be responsible for the performance of your team, developing and motivating them to deliver results to strict time and quality targets, whilst ensuring their health, safety and wellbeing.

You will develop team members to ensure effective delivery of the monitoring programme in Cornwall. Ensuring appropriate skill levels are developed and maintained and team performance is optimised in line with specified goals.

You will be responsible for the health, safety & wellbeing of your team by actively promoting awareness and ensuring the provision of safe working practices in line with Environment Agency guidance.

You will be a role model and promote inclusion by respecting differences in our workforce and build a supportive & engaging workplace.

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

  • The team
  • The Monitoring Field Team is part of National Monitoring. We collect fieldbased samples and environmental data for both local, national and statutory requirements. The data collected provides key information for multiple teams working across the Environment Agency to serve a diverse community and environmental needs.

You will be part of the National Monitoring Field Team Leadership team and be required to travel nationally to work with them.


  • Experience/skills required
  • A full UK driving licence is essential for this role as regular travel around Cornwall will be required.
We are looking for enthusiastic, self-motivated applicants. You should have the ability to provide leadership to motivate and inspire your team to deliver the monitoring programme.
Experience and knowledge of the Environment Agency's monitoring programmes would be an advantage, but it is not essential.

More important is that you will have excellent communication skills and you will have experience in leading, motivating and developing a team so that they can be their best.

You will also need experience of managing the Health, Safety and Wellbeing of others, ideally in a dispersed or field based setting.

You support people through change and create an environment that encourages creativity, innovation and improving efficiency.
You will champion Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within the team.

  • Contact and additional informationThe base location for this role is Bodmin but regular travel around the patch to see your team will be required. You will also occasionally be required to travel to meetings around the country.
More jobs from Environment Agency
See all jobs of Environment Agency