Environment Programme & Permitting Team Manager

Environment Programme & Permitting Team Manager

Full Time

Permanent

Salary: up to £63,936 (depending on experience)

Location: Essex

About the role

We are expanding our Water Resources team and have an exciting opportunity for a WINEP & Permitting Team Manager. Reporting to the Water Resources & Supply Strategy Manager, you will be responsible for the daily management and direction of the Water directorate WINEP and Permitting team within Northumbrian Water Group (NWG).

You will be responsible for tracking, reporting and timely delivery of water resources Water Industry National Environmental Programme (WINEP) schemes and the escalation of risks, ensuring actions plans are in place to support timely delivery. You will develop and maintain strong working relationships with regulators including the Environment Agency and Natural England and ensure required changes to our WINEP obligations are made through the Environment Agency Change Protocol process.

Through your clear leadership, you will develop your team to their full potential, while maintaining consistency of approach in both the northern and southern operating regions.

You will actively engage with senior leaders and delivery teams across NWG to support the successful delivery of WINEP schemes, and drive a culture of innovation and continuous improvement in Water Supply in support of permit compliance.

Where required, you will ensure all Water directorate operational activities have an appropriate permit in place. This will incorporate the delivery of agreed Discharge Compliance Tactical Plan interventions, the timely application/renewal of environmental permits, and development of your team to provide support to the Water Supply and Water Networks teams during pollution incidents.

About you

We’re looking for the successful candidate to have technical knowledge of WINEP and environmental permitting, and a proven track record of managing teams, preferably across different regions. You will be a proactive, data driven, results orientated leader. You will have experience of working with regulators and demonstrable track record of budgetary setting and achievement of budgets.

You will require excellent writing and presentational skills, negotiating skills with internal departments, regulators and suppliers, as well as excellent interpersonal skills with departmental colleagues, company managers and external stakeholders.

You will have a university degree in a subject relevant to this role, with a Master’s degree being useful in addition.

Demonstrating excellent problem solving skills, you will have the ability to understand and advise on WINEP and Permitting issues, and to influence across the Water Directorate.

The role will manage teams across our Northumbrian Water and Essex & Suffolk Water operating regions and so will require a valid full driving licence and regular travel across both regions.

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all applications, as we believe and strive to be an equal opportunity employer committed in having a diverse community represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.  We have our colleague network groups, including Rainbow Support Network (LGBT+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks too.

About us

Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.

We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, and that female candidates are less likely to apply if they don’t have the full range of skills, however if you have some of the skills listed, we 'd encourage you to apply.

NWG at a glance:

Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.

We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.

We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.

Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.

Our benefits

We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues. Our ‘Tap Into’ benefits include:

• Generous holiday entitlement starting at 26 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
• Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 10%.
• Free access to local attractions.
• A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
• Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
• Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.
• Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance. We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
• Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.