Senior Officer - Industry & Waste Regulation
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We are offering an exciting opportunity to join the North East Wales Industry & Waste Regulation Team, as a Senior Industry and Waste Regulation Officer. This role offers an chance to play a key role in protecting and enhancing the environment as part of Natural Resources Wales.
In this role, you will regulate some of the most complex and high-risk industrial and waste activities, including large industrial installations, COMAH (Control of Major Accident Hazards) sites, RSR (Radioactive Substances Regulation) facilities, and waste management operations. Your work will directly influence how these sites operate, ensuring they meet environmental standards and continually improve their performance.
You will also respond to environmental incidents and reports, acting safely and efficiently to investigate, assess impacts, and take appropriate follow-up action.
Using NRW's Regulatory Principles, you will help drive compliance, apply proportionate enforcement where required, and secure meaningful environmental benefits through your regulatory interventions. Every decision you make will contribute to safeguarding the environment and supporting the communities we serve.
Driving is essential to this role, due to site-based work, visiting and inspecting regulated sites across north and Mid Wales . This can be at short notice and on ad-hoc and unplanned basis. The role also requires the post holder to Respond to incidents and complaints again these are unplanned and short notice and can vary in location and nature therefore you must be able to legally drive in the UK.
As an organisation we support flexible working. You will be contracted to the NRW office at the above location and a suitable hybrid working pattern will be agreed on appointment. You will be expected to attend face to face meetings, training or to participate in operational matters as and when required.
To make an informal enquiry about this role, please contact Rhys Ellis at
Interviews will be face to face at Buckley Office the week commencing the 18/05/26.
Vetting checks may be required depending on the role. Appointments are normally made within 4 to 6 weeks of the closing date.
Successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) check. Appointments are normally made within 4 to 8 weeks of the closing date.
About us
We take pride in working together to protect and enhance our environment. You'll be joining a fast-paced, supportive operational team that turns its hand to a wide variety of tasks. Alongside regulating permitted sites, we respond to environmental incidents, carry out routine inspections, and provide local advice and guidance to colleagues and partners. No two days are the same, and you'll play an active role in the work that makes a real difference to our environment and communities.
What you will do
- Assess compliance at installations, COMAH sites, waste sites and sites handling radioactive substances.
- Liaison with Counter Terrorism Security Advisors.
- Take appropriate actions to collect evidence for enforcement purposes, in accordance with defined procedures.
- Routinely lead our response to large or contentious cases/issues.
- Co-ordinate pre-application discussions with Operators and NRW Permitting Teams to aid timely, efficient and good quality permit variations, applications and surrenders.
- Where non-compliance is identified, determine and implement the most appropriate intervention option to ensure operators return to compliance as quickly as possible, with minimum environmental impact and consideration of the economic impacts.
- Work with Operators to develop medium-term regulatory strategies for the installations, including engagement with senior managers and executives within companies, to deliver multiple benefits.
- Be required to participate in technical/ strategic groups or represent NRW on external forums e.g. UK regulators' sector groups, as required.
- Contribute to NRW Sector Groups and cross-agency sector groups as required to aid adoption of consistent regulatory approaches and the dissemination of good practices to the benefit of the environment.
- Coaching and mentoring of team members.
- Respond to incidents and complaints.
- Contribute to a positive health, safety and well-being culture.
- Undertake health and safety duties and responsibilities appropriate to the post
- Be committed to Natural Resources Wales Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy , together with an understanding of how it operates within the responsibilities of the post
- Be committed to your own development through the effective use of your personal development plan (known as Sgwrs).
- Required to take part in incident response activities.
- Any other reasonable duties requested commensurate with the grade of this role.
In your application and interview you will be asked to demonstrate the following skills and experience using the STAR method.Extensive knowledge and experience of either working in a regulated industry or as a regulator. Good understanding of commercial business processes and pressures. Ability to communicate effectively with regulated business and the public, explaining complex issues and gaining support by influencing. Welsh Language level requirements
- Essential: Level A2 - Elementary Level
- Desirable: Level B2 - Upper intermediate level
Please note: If you do not meet the Welsh language level requirements for this role your application will not be shortlisted.
Benefits
This role will offer a range of benefits, including:
- Civil Service Pension Scheme offering employer contributions of 28.97% (successful internal staff will remain in their current pension scheme)
- 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days
- generous leave entitlements for all your life needs
- commitment to professional development
- health and wellbeing benefits and support
- weekly wellbeing hour to use as you choose
Please keep reading
We're passionate about creating a diverse workforce and positively encourage applications from under-represented communities. We embrace equality of opportunity irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
We are committed to equal opportunities, and we guarantee interviews for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
We want to attract and retain talented and highly skilled staff, so we make sure that our pay scales remain competitive. We advertise the full pay scale on our job descriptions. Appointed candidates start at the first point of the pay scale and annual increments are paid each year.
Unless otherwise stated in the 'Role' section of this advert, Natural Resources Wales is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Although we hold a Skilled Worker visa sponsorship licence, it applies only to specific roles that meet both the eligibility criteria and salary requirements set out by the UK Government under the Skilled Worker visa route.
We want our staff to grow professionally and personally. From leadership development to access to further and higher education courses, our staff have opportunities to expand their knowledge on variety of topics, stay current in their field and continue to learn as their career progresses.
We are a Bilingual organisation which complies with the Welsh Language Standards. xbpsjku Welsh language skills are considered an asset to NRW, and we encourage and support staff to learn, develop and use their Welsh language skills.
- Location:
- Wales
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- Healthcare And Medical