Ecology jobs in Birmingham

About ECAS

We’re a team of environmental compliance experts that help businesses to comply with or enforce legislation to protect the environment. We are looking for people who are passionate about the environment and their community to join our team as a Pollution Field Technician.

About the role:

The role of Pollution Field Technician is to work on behalf of our client Severn Trent Water, across the Severn Trent region to investigate the causes of pollution events which affect customers.

This is field based role and visiting site to identify causes, gather evidence and communicate with 3rd parties who might be responsible to educate them to prevent repeated pollution events.

This Pollution Field Technician role works closely with the Pollution Support Technician, client and Pollution Manager to collate and provide evidence to our clients. Candidate with experience in the drain management, or water industry would be of interest for this position.

Key elements of this Pollution Field Engineer include:

· Overseeing and carry out customer engagement visits and be responsible for all associated activities such as quality conversation and engagement with customers, customer queries and subsequent visits.

· Help provide education to customers and other interested parties in negligence, misuse, un-flushable and disposal of Fats, Oils and Grease through face-to-face meetings

· Engage with client contacts to inform ECAS about pollutions for investigation requests and demonstrate the value of the work by reducing pollutions and helping local environments.

Skills and Experience for this role

· Strong customer facing and communication skills demonstrated in your recent work experience. You need to be proactive and curious to pinpoint where pollutions have originated from.

· Experience investigating issues, collecting and collecting evidence that can be presented to our clients to act on with confidence.

· You must have a Full, Clean Driving Licence and be willing to work flexibly to attend events across the Severn Trent region. You will be provided with a company vehicle.

· Ideally you will have experience or an interest in environmental issues. Experience in compliance or enforcement services in other sectors would also be an advantage.

· You should be experience and proficient in Microsoft Office and CRM systems – ideally Salesforce.

· A team player who can contribute to the success of our compliance work and communicate with colleagues and our clients to ensure success.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £24,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company car
• Company pension
• On-site parking

Application question(s):

• Do you have any experience using CRM's
• Do you have any customer facing experience

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: On the road