Water Industry Regulation Transformation Programme

We are changing the way we regulate the water industry, embedding a new approach that targets our resources and interventions to uncover non-compliance and drive better performance from the water industry.  This Programme has been set up to enable the Environment Agency to secure clean and plentiful water through a focus on our regulation of water companies.

Our team’s central purpose is to continuously improve all aspects of water company regulation. Water companies are a vital part of the water cycle, taking water out to meet our personal and business needs and then cleaning and returning the water to our rivers, coasts and groundwater. Water companies don’t always perform to their best abilities, and this harms the environment we are protecting and enhancing. Our current work areas include topics such as incidents, storm overflow & flow compliance, enforcement, inspections and audits.

We will support this work by recruiting new people to join us.

To find out more about the role, the recruitment process and to ask any questions please join our drop-in session on Friday 27 September 11.30-12.30 using this MS teams invite.

Among the exciting new roles we are looking for across the country are:

Role	Directorate
Regulatory Manager	Local Operations

Below is some more detailed information on the roles available.

Regulatory Manager

You will be an experienced leader who will manage a new team whose central purpose is to continuously improve all aspects of water company regulation, across compliance, incidents and enforcement. The team will face an individual water company and work alongside a network of colleagues in national and local teams. 

Water company regulation is an exciting area of work.  We need a strong leader to play an operational role, providing direction and ensuring the effective operational delivery and assurance of regulation for an industry with nationally and politically significant sites.