Environmental Health Officer (Environmental Protection)

Job Title – Environmental Health Officer (Environmental Protection – Contaminated land and Air Quality Lead)

Employer – Trafford Council

Location – Trafford Town Hall, Talbot Road, Stretford, M32 0TH

Salary Range – £38,223 - £40,221 (Band 8) plus £2,182 market supplement (pro rata) 

Working Pattern – Full Time

Working hours – 36.25 hours (flexible working available 7am-9pm) (part   time / reduced hours negotiable)

We will offer flexibility where we can – if you are interested in a role please speak to the recruiting manager about what flexibility they might consider.

Many of our colleagues have the opportunity to work from home for one or more days a week and/or they flex the hours they work. We call this SMART working and it gives you the option to flex your days and hours so you can fit your work around your life and life around your work.  

Contract type – Permanent

Closing date –  Sunday 12^th May 2024 at 23:59

Interview date –  Thursday 23^rd May 2024 at Trafford Town Hall

About the role

Trafford’s Environmental Protection Team have an exciting vacancy for an Environmental Health Officer to join the Department and act as Lead Officer for contaminated land and air quality. The role holder will provide expertise in the scientific and technical aspects of land contamination and remediation, local air quality management and review of air quality assessments and improvement plans.

The team enforce environmental protection legislation for industrial, commercial and domestic sectors including noise and statutory nuisance, contaminated land, air quality and clean air, private water supplies and anti-social behaviour. The team are also responsible for the inspection and permitting of a range of industrial processes to control and reduce pollution emissions to air.

The team are key statutory consultees for the Council’s planning control team, ensuring noise and nuisance, air quality and contaminated land impacts of new developments are assessed to ensure they do not negatively impact the surrounding areas. The team also act as a statutory consultee for the Council’s licensing team, to achieve the Council’s licensing policy objective of preventing public nuisance from licensed premises.

The team work as an integral part of the Council’s multi-agency team which plan, regulate and control large scale events. The team also undertaken extensive monitoring of noise and nuisance related to each individual event and produce reports for the multi-agency team.

This role offers the flexibility of hot desking / home working together with field based work.

Role Profile.pdf

About you

You will have:

· A degree or diploma in Environmental Health and be EHRB registered.

 · Recent experience relating to pollution control, contaminated land and air quality and good working knowledge of the legislation, guidance and practice in relation to contaminated land, including graphical databases, land contamination risk management (LCRM) and local air quality management. The ability to understand and analyse technical reports and inquiries.

· The ability to prioritise work and manage a busy workload and deliver to tight deadlines.

· A passion and pride in your work.

· Excellent written and communication skills.

Your style and approach will reflect our values and behaviours: you will be committed to continually learning & improving the way you do things to ensure effective outcomes; valuing and respecting others’ contribution, you will work together to deliver service; you will take ownership of your actions and strive to getting things right first time and learn from when things do go wrong; you will enjoy taking personal responsibility to resolve issues and change what you do and how you do it to make a difference.

About us

Trafford Council and its partners in the public, private and third sectors have a Vision which sees us working together to close inequality gaps and maximise Trafford’s huge potential.

Our vision: Trafford – where all our residents, businesses and communities prosper

Trafford really is a great place to work. We’re keen to recruit someone with the right values and behaviours that can help us ensure our workplace values are at the heart of everything we do.

We recognise that having a diverse workforce is essential to bringing fresh ideas and perspectives to our Council, so we particularly welcome applications from minority, marginalised and diverse groups, and we in turn promise a fair and unbiased recruitment process.

Additional Information

You will have flexibility in terms of hybrid working at home and in the office.

Flexibility will be required to work outside core hours.

You will be required to drive in this role and have a serviceable car available for use.

Contact Information

For an informal chat or to find out more about this role, please contact Suzanne Whittaker, Regulatory Service Manager suzanne.whittaker@trafford.gov.uk or call 07760 167319.

Council Details

You will be welcomed into a friendly environment where your personal and professional development will be encouraged. You will have the opportunity to work and grow in a people-centred and values based organisation that promotes a positive permission culture. Your opinions matter so you will have the opportunity to shape how we do things here at Trafford. 

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Other relevant Information

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