Are you passionate about the environment? Join us and help create a cleaner, safer and healthier environment for people and wildlife. We ensure that companies are disposing of their waste correctly by enforcing government regulations – ‘right waste, right place’. You will be key to planning, monitoring and delivering compliance and enforcement activity within your area of waste regulation, to drive a circular economy.   

This role will be based in the Packaging North team within the Producer Responsibility team, part of Waste, Markets and Shipments (previously ORS). 
 
Find out about our wider team here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ7fCgRW5SM 

We are fully committed to having an inclusive workforce to reflect the communities we serve. We welcome flexible working patterns for all our vacancies, including job share, so please clearly include any information regarding your preferred working arrangements on your application. 

As a Regulatory Officer you will: 

• Undertake audit and enforcement work in the field and/or desk based.

• Collate, analyse and use complex data to help make evidence-based decisions on regulation compliance. 
• Answer technical queries; interpret and diagnose problems and develop solutions. 
• Develop further relationships with customers and stakeholders
• Deal with confidential and sensitive information whilst keeping in line with data protection guidelines. 
• Contribute to the development and improvement of processes, procedures, and operational instructions. 
• Work with businesses to bring them into compliance and investigate companies suspected of non-compliance.  This work can involve conducting interviews under caution and compiling casefiles for our legal teams. 

Responding to incidents is a central part of what we do. You will be required to have an incident role and make yourself available to respond to incidents or provide business continuity support during an incident. This may attract an additional payment and full training and alternative working arrangements will be available to support you with your incident role. 

We are looking for people with various types of experience who can demonstrate the capabilities and interpersonal skills needed for the role. Waste industry or regulatory experience is not necessary as you will receive full training. We are looking for people who enjoy working outdoors and in an office.  

You should be able to show us you are: 

• effective, organised and able to prioritise 
• confident/assertive
• IT/computer literate
• comfortable with numbers and handling large data sets 
• passionate about the environment and willing to learn about environmental regulation/enforcement

And can: 

• handle confrontational situations
• adapt your communication style to suit others to get your message across
• integrate into a team
• record information accurately

You must hold a full valid UK driving licence as you will be required to travel and drive as part of the role. Don’t be put off applying if you don’t have a degree or similar. We value life experience. 

We offer an attractive and competitive benefits package including: 
 
Fantastic pension scheme, competitive salary, flexible working hours, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata) and apprenticeships/opportunities for in-work qualifications. 

For more information see the Candidate Pack. 

Interviews are expected to take place between Monday 2 March and Friday 13 March 2026, face-to-face in Warrington.  

You will need to be comfortable working in a dispersed team. The Environment Agency utilises a hybrid working approach, including office and home working. Regular travel across the North of England and wider travel for training and meetings is expected.   

We may use the outcomes from this recruitment for future vacancies within the next 6 months. 

For an informal discussion contact [email protected]