Join our team as a Catchment Advisor in the Kent region to lead the development and implementation of critical catchment management activities in priority drinking water areas.
This multi-faceted role involves close collaboration with statutory and non-statutory stakeholders, including charities, NGOs, landowners, businesses, and the Environment Agency (EA).
You'll be instrumental in ensuring regulatory compliance with the Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP) and supporting Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI) obligations.
A key focus will be on stakeholder engagement, education, and compliance assurance to protect water resources and address water quality issues.
This position plays a vital role in achieving our carbon footprint reduction goals and delivering strong customer value through sustainable water management.
You'll also contribute significantly to climate change resilience activities, developing long-term solutions to safeguard drinking water provision and quality for the future.
Main responsibilities:
- Deliver catchment investigation activities and/or catchment no deterioration schemes associated with South East Water’s obligations under the Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP).
- Plan suitable monitoring strategies and assess monitoring data from Catchment Scientists to determine sources of pollution, using this information to inform and guide necessary catchment interventions or remedial works.
- Conducting land usage surveys to determine potential pollution hot spots and use this information to educate and change behaviours and activities in external stakeholders’ operations.
- For investigations, undertake hydrological and hydrogeological characterisations reports and produce source-pathway-receptor models. Ensuring that findings and outcomes are used across the business to improve operations.
- Work closely with the Catchment team to record project performance and land owner engagement statistics. Work with these Stakeholders and other internal teams to ensure that planned actions are guided and driven by our environmental plans.
- Advocate and promote the environmental work of South East Water through engagement with stakeholders on an everyday basis as well as the design and delivery of special workshops and events.
- Working with our various regulators and guardians to produce technical written reports of a high standard to meet tight regulatory deadlines and highlight the positive works of South East Water.
- Support the business with reactive, emergency environmental advice to minimise environmental impact of work and to reduce the likelihood of environmental prosecutions.
You'll need:
Skills / Qualifications / Experience
- Educated to degree level in an environmental / related discipline.
- The ability to understand the diverse world of catchment management.
- Excellent Stakeholder management skills – with the gravitas and communication skills needed to explain and gain buy-in to complex environmental processes / solutions.
- Demonstrable experience of working within or alongside the water industry to provide catchment management or environmental protection services.
- Experience of working with diverse stakeholder groups in an environmental setting.
- Experience of working within / alongside regulatory bodies.
- Clean driving licence as occasional visits to other sites will be required.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: From £40,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
