EA Temporary Monitoring Assistant

Monitoring Assistant - Environment AgencyKendal6 months / temporaryKendal 13.15 per hour37 hours per week Our client, the Environment Agency, are sourcing a Monitoring Assistant, in Kendal, for a period of 6 months. You will be required to help the organisation be responsible for the collection of samples for the Bathing Water Directive, the Water Framework Directive and other statutory requirements. You will help deliver work across a range of disciplines, including Chemical, Ecology, Fisheries and Groundwater sampling. Provide key data for other teams within the Environment Agency, for example for the investigation of failing bathing waters or to provide data for compliance under the Environmental Permitting Regulations for discharges as well as providing core data for reporting and investigations. You will help deliver the bathing water-sampling programme, assist in fisheries monitoring surveys and potentially undertake water quality and ecological sampling. The National Monitoring Field Team are responsible for the collection of samples for the Bathing Water Directive, the Water Framework Directive and other statutory requirements. We deliver work across a range of disciplines including Chemical, Ecology, Fisheries and Groundwater sampling. The samples we collect provide key data for other teams within the Environment Agency, for example for the investigation of failing bathing waters or to provide data for compliance under the Environmental Permitting Regulations for ..... full job details .....