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Our 12-month industry placements run from September 2022, giving you the opportunity to gain valuable experience whilst complementing your studies and personal and professional growth.
Your placement will be split into 4 mth postings into our three main industrial regulation business areas, which are Operations, National Permitting and Environment and Business.
During your placement with us you will gain experience and develop skills in areas such as:
- Data management and analysis
- Regulating the environment
- Evaluation of environmental impact
- Industrial Transition for carbon reduction
- Development of environmental standards
- Enforcement
- Environmental Incident management
- Partnership working
- Public engagement
You will see direct impacts of the work we do in the environment and understand how we work with operators of industrial facilities to ensure that the industry we regulate is sustainable for future and provides benefit to society without causing harm to people or the environment.
The team
In Operations you will work alongside our regulatory officers who regulate industrial installations such as chemical plants, power stations and cement works.
In National permitting you will support our permitting officers in assessing applications from industry for permits to undertake new activities or modifying permits to implement new regulatory requirements.
In Environment and Business you will work alongside our senior advisors on policy implementation for regulated industry, providing technical support to our regulatory activities.
Experience/skills required
You will be someone with a genuine interest in the environment and be passionate about creating a better place for people and wildlife. You will be flexible in your approach and have determination to make positive change happen.
We are looking for applicants who are studying or recently studied a manufacturing or process engineering related degree.
You will have completed a minimum of two years of your degree course but will not have graduated before summer 2022.
We are looking for applicants with some of the following skills:
- Team working
- Confidence with data
- Problem-solving
- Engineering knowledge
- Process industry Knowledge
- Health and safety
- Modelling
Contact and additional information
We offer a fantastic benefits package to our employees, in addition to an attractive salary i.e. flexible working, 25 days annual leave, an award-winning Pension Fund.
As an organisation we strive to reflect the communities we serve and continue to develop diversity throughout our workforce. We welcome applications from all backgrounds regardless of race, sexual orientation or religion.
Remote interviews likely held in June/July, using an online platform such as MS Teams. We do reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of applications.
Industry Placements are likely to start in August/September 2022.
