Job Location: Any Natural Resources Wales office with regular weekly travel to Cambria House, Newport Road, Cardiff.

Job Purpose

To technically assess complex permit applications, including those for sites of high public or political interest, from a variety of process industry sites, working with a range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure that the decisions taken are protective of the environment whilst supporting economic growth.

Job Specific Responsibilities

• Determination of complex applications for Environmental Permits for a range of process industry sectors including Chemicals, Metals, Waste Incineration and Combustion.
• Determination of complex applications for Environmental Permits for a range of process industry sectors including Chemicals, Metals, Waste Incineration and Combustion.
• Lead on permit reviews for various industrial sectors to ensure the sites comply with the requirements of the Industrial Emissions Directive, working with relevant organisations to ensure consistency in approach throughout England and Wales.
• Support operational teams in pre-application discussions for a range of process industry sites.
• Act as the Permitting Service technical lead for the Organic and Inorganic Chemical sectors.
• Represent the Permitting Service on the Natural Resources Wales Chemicals sector group to ensure effective regulation of sites within the sector throughout Wales.

Job Specific Requirements

• Experience in a directly relevant scientific discipline such as Chemistry or Chemical Engineering.
• Proven coaching and mentoring skills.
• Strong customer focussed approach to delivery.  
• Practical experience of the application of relevant environmental legislation to the operation of process industry sites, preferably in the Chemicals sector.
• Experience of working within process industry, preferably within the Chemicals sector. 
• An understanding of the Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR) and how they relate to the permitting process.
• An understanding of the changes in EPR brought about by the Industrial Emission Directive and what that means for the future of process industry regulation.

Due consideration has been given to the Welsh language requirements for the post and the existing skills within the team. Taking this into consideration the Welsh language skills required for the post are at:

Level 1 - The ability to use basic Welsh conversational phrases (eg “bore da” – “good morning”) and to pronounce Welsh place names correctly.

Personal Responsibilities

• Agree a personal delivery plan and report to your line manager on progress no less than twice a year.
• Exercise good judgement and be willing to be held to account for decisions, actions and choices made personally and by staff for whom you are responsible.
• Act as a role model of organisational values.
• Show exemplary behaviours of honesty, integrity and ethics.
• Challenge others when they fail to act as role models.
• Combine confidence and resilience with humility and a willingness to learn

Status

This is a permanent, pensionable full-time appointment of 37 hours a week.

Salary

NRW C3 Grade with a Starting Salary of £32,778 per annum.

Applications and Closing Date

For further details on the advertised role please contact Eirian Macdonald on
03000 654368 or email eirian.macdonald@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk

Closing Date: 28th February 2015

Interviews to take place on: 16th March 2015

Applicants should be aware this role does NOT attract a public expense (relocation move) and therefore any cost of moving will not be met by NRW.

Please forward your expression of interest demonstrating your suitability for this role to:

recruitment@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk