Environmental Monitoring Officer – Incident Response

Join Our Team at Northland Regional Council
Position: Permanent, full time

Benefits:

Flexible work arrangements to suit your lifestyle

37.5 hour working week

Generous leave allowance

We are the carers for Northland's environment and community. Are you one of us?

A few things you should know about Northland Regional Council…

Our work is ultimately about working together to care for our region's incredible environment and many communities, matching our skills and resources with the vision and aspirations of our people. From healthy waters, protecting our native taonga, developing meaningful relationships with tangata whenua, to creating resilient and adaptable communities in a changing climate.

Here at the Northland Regional Council, your work makes a difference to our community.

Toitu te whenua, toitu te moana, toitu te tangata.

If the land is well, if the sea is well, the people will thrive.

The opportunity awaits…

The primary focus of this role is to carry out inspections and investigations, as a warranted enforcement officer (under the Resource Management Act 1991), in response to assigned environmental incidents. This covers a range of activity types, including land use activities, discharges, coastal activities, and water takes.

Incident response actions include:

Site inspections

Sample collection

Field measurements

Data recording

Interviews

Desk top investigations

Writing reports

It requires the interpretation of legislation and the practical application of regional rules.

The Environmental Monitoring Officer – Incident Response may also be required to help implement monitoring programmes for assigned resource consents, regional rules, and other regulations.

Do you have what it takes?

We are looking for someone who can bring the following to our diverse talent pool:

Tertiary degree level qualification in a science-based discipline.

Ability to …

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