34247 - Senior Environmental Monitoring Officer

Location:

Bridgwater

Pay: £43,198 per year

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Disability Confident: No

Closing Date: 15/04/2026

About this job

We are looking to recruit an experienced, knowledgeable and enthusiastic aquatic environmental scientist.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across the Analysis & Reporting team.
• Represent the team in technical discussions, internally, externally, and nationally.
• Oversee and ensure effective delivery of high-profile work areas, particularly our bathing water investigations.
• Be experienced and comfortable analysing, interpreting and reporting multifunctional datasets.
• Be able to design fit-for-purpose monitoring programmes, utilising a variety of monitoring techniques.
• Be comfortable in public facing forums and able to translate complex data for different audiences.
• As a senior member of the team, you will be expected, along with the two other Senior Environmental Monitoring Officers, to coach, mentor and develop less experienced staff, to improve resilience across work areas, and ensure any reports produced by the teams are of appropriate quality for their target audience.

The post holder can be based in either Blandford (DT11 8ST) or Bridgwater (TA6 4YS) office, but there will be a requirement to attend pollution incidents and deliver field work across the area, as a result the post holder must have a full driving licence.

There is some flexible home working included; however, it is expected that you will be in the office a minimum of 3 days/week.

The team

We are a friendly and supportive team of environmental scientists who provide a vital role in collecting, analysing and interpreting ecological, habitat and water quality data.

We turn data into evidence and provide this to client teams across the Environment Agency and to external organisations.

This information is used to assess the status of our environment; to direct and inform our management actions; and to monitor the environmental response to our own and others' activities.

Qualifications

You will be educated to degree level or similar in a relevant discipline, e.g. chemistry, ecology, biology, or have equivalent practical work experience.

At least 5 years' experience of aquatic science, preferably in a regulatory capacity.

Excellent knowledge of water quality chemistry.

Robust statistical analysis and reporting of complex, multifunctional data sets, and interpreting this suitably for the target audience.

Design and delivery of water quality investigations.

Overseeing successful delivery of significant work areas.

Managing successful relationships and liaison with internal; external and national stakeholders.

Coaching and mentoring less experienced staff.

Knowledge of bathing water compliance and investigations desirable.

In your capability-based answers please demonstrate your ability to work effectively with people from a variety of backgrounds and cultures and actively encourage others to consider diversity issues in their work.

You'll have a range of development opportunities and appropriate training will be provided.