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This is an exciting opportunity for an individual to contribute to Thames Water’s mitigation of enforcement risk because of water discharge non-compliance against an environmental permit and/or pollution incident. You will be part of a team responding to the Environment Agency (EA) across a variety of communication mediums. This high-profile role will involve working with our legal team at Eversheds Sutherland and the Environment Agency. As a result, you will gain exposure across the business at all levels and can contribute towards the company's wider environmental function.
Job Responsibility:
Respond to Environment Agency (EA) formal requests for information as part of a criminal investigation within the regulatory deadline via written correspondence
Draft a statement that a senior manager will read out to the EA under Caution
Interrogate the formal information request to understand if the basis of the request is factually correct, and if not, clarify the facts as part of your prepared written correspondence
Work closely with multiple stakeholders across the business to gather the relevant information and act as a level of assurance by assessing whether the mitigation and actions to reduce the risk of recurrence are robust enough to satisfy the EA
Project manage multiple information providers
Ensure our response is finalised promptly and within the agreed and/or regulatory deadline
Prepare any further follow-up information to be provided under caution as a result of the interview
Work with the business to promote, recognise and understand associated enforcement risk, mitigating actions available to TWUL and our regulatory obligations/commitments
Routinely chair and facilitate meetings with information providers, ensuring you are well prepared, organised, and all attendees understand the purpose of the meeting in advance
Requirements:
Ability to project manage and manage your workload effectively
Able to work within a team environment with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills
Confident in communicating with multiple internal and external stakeholders on a day-to-day basis by using a variety of communication mediums, and experience in answering challenging questions
Ability to produce reports, incident reviews, and interpret data, and communicate this verbally as well as in writing
Ability to work with large data sets and different types of data (quantitative and qualitative)
A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and SharePoint
Ability to understand the Environment Agency’s Common Incident Classification Scheme (CICS), 16_02 and Compliance Classification Scheme (CCS)
Occasional Travel to sites
Nice to have:
An Environmental Science, Legal, or Investigative degree or equivalent qualification would be advantageous
What we offer:
Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
Generous Pension Scheme through AON
Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance