FIELD OPERATIONS
If you’re part of the Environment Agency, you will play your part in protecting and improving the environment. You will do vital, purposeful work that influences and protects lives, places and communities now and in the future. We’re based across England, and our responsibilities span industry regulation, flood defences, land contamination, water quality, fisheries, and conservation.
Climate Change is the biggest risk we face. We are planning for future flood scenarios including a 4oC rise in global temperature and are working with government, local councils, businesses, civil society groups and communities to make our environment a better place for people and wildlife.
Our Field teams protect people and the environment by maintaining and operating our flood and coastal risk management assets and responding to incidents.
Flood Defence Team Member
Your work will be critical both to improve the environment and to protect local communities from flooding, and you will operate, maintain and respond to a range of assets, from a large flood relief channel and flood storage reservoirs to local flood defences.
Your day-to-day duties will involve working in both urban and rural environments and will typically involve a mix of asset operation and response, asset maintenance, for example vegetation control and small construction tasks and incident response. You can expect to use a variety of tools and equipment as part of your role, this could be small hand and powers tools up to larger ride-on plant and tractors. Use of IT devices will also be required to track work tasks and communicate with team members.
