Regulatory Enforcement Advisor

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.

In this role, you will respond to Environment Agency (EA) formal requests for information as part of a criminal investigation within the regulatory deadline via written correspondence. You will also be responsible for drafting a statement that a senior manager will read out to the EA under Caution.

• You will interrogate the formal information request in the first instance to understand if the basis of the request is factually correct, and if not, you will need to clarify the facts as part of your prepared written correspondence.
• You will be working 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.
• Working 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.

Hybrid
- Clearwater Court, Vastern Rd, Reading RG1 8DB
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Occasional Travel to sites

36 hours, Monday-Friday.

• 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 Share Point
• Ability to understand the Environment Agency’s Common Incident Classification Scheme (CICS),  and Compliance Classification Scheme (CCS).
• An Environmental Science, Legal, or Investigative degree or equivalent qualification would be advantageous.

• Competitive salary of up to £50,000 per annum depending on experience
• 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.

We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

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