Environmental Permitting Co-ordinator

Job Title: Environmental Permitting Co-ordinator

Location: Sussex

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37/ week

Salary: £44,000 - £48,000

Closing Date: 2025-10-24

There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint!

Job Overview

In this role, you will ensure the business has all the necessary environmental permits, consents and licences in place to facilitate the legal operation of Southern Water's wastewater and water supply discharge activities to protect the company's regulatory position.

You will ensure permits have been negotiated to deliver appropriate business benefit.

Day to Day

• Acting as the principal environmental permitting interface with the Environment Agency and Natural England.
• Negotiating & securing all necessary environmental permits, consents & licences in Sussex to enable Southern Water to deliver its AMP capital programme and manage its wastewater activities.
• Taking responsibility for ensuring any new permit conditions are made visible to the business.
• Providing permit expertise & advice to the business.
• Representing Southern Water at regional and national meetings on permitting matters with regulators and Water UK, as required.
• Responsible for ensuring any new permit conditions are made visible to the business by updating the company's permit management system.

About You

To be suitable for this role, you should be familiar with environmental permits and ideally have experience of liaising with regulatory bodies.

• Good negotiating skills
• Strong communication skills, able to deal with stakeholders at different levels within the organisation and work with external parties.
• Experience of liaison and negotiation with environmental regulators
• The ability to assimilate and simplify complex regulatory issues
• Excellent verbal reasoning skills
• Numerate with competent IT skills

Ideally you will have:

• An Environmental Degree
• Experience of the water industry or environmental sector, with a significant proportion of this in the wastewater and waste arena

Package

This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a flexible hybrid approach to working between our Sussex based sites and home.

We are offering a salary up to £48,000 per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:

• Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
• 25 days annual leave
• Life assurance equal to 4x salary
• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)
• Health Cash Plan
• Full funded eye tests
• Two paid volunteering days a year
• Occupational health service
• Discounts with over 800 popular retailers
• Digital GP service
• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
• Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
• Cycle to work scheme

Join our Environmental Permitting team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.

Does this opportunity excite you but you're not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that 'normal' office hours aren't possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we'll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?