Environment Team Leader
Posted 23 hours 49 minutes ago by Natural Resources Wales
£45,367 Annual
Permanent
Not Specified
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South West, United Kingdom
Job Description
Environment Team Leader
Closing Date: 06/08/2025
Location: Haverfordwest
Natural Resources Wales reserves the right to close this vacancy before the advertised closing date
Team / Directorate: Pembrokeshire Environment Team / Operations
Starting salary: £45,367 rising to £50,877 per annum through annual increments being paid each year (pro rata for part time applicants)
Contract type: Permanent
Work pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week (Part time, annualised hours, compressed hours or term time working considered - discussions at interview stage welcome)
Interview Date: 19/08/2025
Post number: 200747 (For office use only: GGL, ENV)
The role
The Pembrokeshire Environment Team Leader is an essential role in the delivery of environmental benefit and improvement on the ground in the Pembrokeshire area. It is a busy role, overseeing a diverse team of Environment Officers, providing leadership across both what we do and how we do it. This includes developing locally prioritised work plans based on national targets for delivery, setting the team culture in line with the organisation's values and behaviours, and ensuring high performance across the team for Health, Safety and Wellbeing.
They are also responsible for overseeing the personal development of team members, ensuring they have the right tools, skills and motivation to deliver their role and develop for the future. The Team Leader will also work across Wales with other Environment Team Leaders and technical groups on Wales wide issues as part of our service delivery approach.
The Pembrokeshire Environment Team Leader has line management responsibility for ten officers, including a mix of Senior and Environment Officers, Project Officers and Technical Support. The team deliver a wide range of work across project work, regulatory and enforcement activities and incident response across water quality, water resources, conservation, biodiversity and fisheries. The teams work closely with other NRW teams and public authorities within the place and beyond. These teams make a tangible difference within their place and community.
The team sit within the South West Operations structure, alongside three other Environment Teams, Waste and Industry Regulation Teams and Environment Analysis and Assessment Teams, reporting to the South West Operations Manager. The post holder will be working across Pembrokeshire and will need to be based within reasonable travel distance to attend in person meetings and events and to support incident response in the area.
If you want a role that offers variety and challenge, and to be a part of an organisation that has the sustainable management of natural resources at the core of our purpose, we would love to hear from you.
As an organisation we support flexible working. You will be contracted to an NRW office within the place base / location above and a suitable hybrid working pattern will be agreed on appointment. Any regular face to face meetings or training will be planned in advance.
Interviews will be held on Microsoft Teams.
Successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) check. Appointments are normally made within 4 to 8 weeks of the closing date.
What you will do
Closing Date: 06/08/2025
Location: Haverfordwest
Natural Resources Wales reserves the right to close this vacancy before the advertised closing date
Team / Directorate: Pembrokeshire Environment Team / Operations
Starting salary: £45,367 rising to £50,877 per annum through annual increments being paid each year (pro rata for part time applicants)
Contract type: Permanent
Work pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week (Part time, annualised hours, compressed hours or term time working considered - discussions at interview stage welcome)
Interview Date: 19/08/2025
Post number: 200747 (For office use only: GGL, ENV)
The role
The Pembrokeshire Environment Team Leader is an essential role in the delivery of environmental benefit and improvement on the ground in the Pembrokeshire area. It is a busy role, overseeing a diverse team of Environment Officers, providing leadership across both what we do and how we do it. This includes developing locally prioritised work plans based on national targets for delivery, setting the team culture in line with the organisation's values and behaviours, and ensuring high performance across the team for Health, Safety and Wellbeing.
They are also responsible for overseeing the personal development of team members, ensuring they have the right tools, skills and motivation to deliver their role and develop for the future. The Team Leader will also work across Wales with other Environment Team Leaders and technical groups on Wales wide issues as part of our service delivery approach.
The Pembrokeshire Environment Team Leader has line management responsibility for ten officers, including a mix of Senior and Environment Officers, Project Officers and Technical Support. The team deliver a wide range of work across project work, regulatory and enforcement activities and incident response across water quality, water resources, conservation, biodiversity and fisheries. The teams work closely with other NRW teams and public authorities within the place and beyond. These teams make a tangible difference within their place and community.
The team sit within the South West Operations structure, alongside three other Environment Teams, Waste and Industry Regulation Teams and Environment Analysis and Assessment Teams, reporting to the South West Operations Manager. The post holder will be working across Pembrokeshire and will need to be based within reasonable travel distance to attend in person meetings and events and to support incident response in the area.
If you want a role that offers variety and challenge, and to be a part of an organisation that has the sustainable management of natural resources at the core of our purpose, we would love to hear from you.
As an organisation we support flexible working. You will be contracted to an NRW office within the place base / location above and a suitable hybrid working pattern will be agreed on appointment. Any regular face to face meetings or training will be planned in advance.
Interviews will be held on Microsoft Teams.
Successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) check. Appointments are normally made within 4 to 8 weeks of the closing date.
What you will do
- Developing and implementing local work plans to deliver our regulatory and SMNR aspirations. Engage and collaborate with relevant stakeholders.
- Responsible for regulatory decisions at place level, ensuring adherence to the Regulators Code and our Regulatory Principles.
- Responsible for authorising regulatory and enforcement decisions within the team remit, including protected sites assents and consents.
- Ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of team members by implementing and monitoring safe working practices and risk assessments.
- Budgetary control of team spending.
- Would be expected to also lead a virtual technical team to support place based delivery.
- Play a senior role in a resilient NRW non-Flood Incident Management Service that follows NRW process.
- Undertake health and safety duties and responsibilities appropriate to the post
- Be committed to Natural Resources Wales Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy, together with an understanding of how it operates within the responsibilities of the post
- Be committed to your own development through the effective use of your personal development plan (known as Sgwrs).
- Any other reasonable duties requested commensurate with the grade of this role.