Environmental Crime Enforcement Officer

Role: Environmental Crime Enforcement Officer

Location: Bengal Street Depot

Contract: Full time (36.15 hours per week) / 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £31,537 - £33,699

Closing Date: 18 March 2026

Do you want to ensure that our borough continues to be a safe and green place for our communities? Do you have experience in enforcement? Are you passionate about the environment? If this describes you, we are looking to recruit a new Environmental Crime Enforcement Officer in our Chorley team.

In this role you will be part of a team proactively working to respond and deal with a variety of environmental crime issues, such as abandoned vehicles, dog fouling and fly tipping. You will support the Council and other partners in preventing environmental crime.

You will work with a variety of different stakeholders and the public, therefore fantastic communication skills and the ability to handle difficult situations and customers are key.

• Organise and manage own workload and carry out duties independently, responding to customer enquiries and complaints, determining the best course of action for individual cases.
• Carry out enforcement investigations and evidence gathering on a wide range of environmental crime issues, including formal interviewing under caution and disclosure to solicitors.
• Undergo formal and informal action against individuals/organisations breaching a wide range of environmental crime legislations within the provisions of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE).
• Preparation of investigation reports / prosecutions files and provide expert witness evidence in court.
• Conduct targeted enforcement duties including surveillance in accordance with and having regard for the requirements of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA).
• Serve formal notices, including Statutory Notices, Duty of Care notices and Community Protection Notices and to issue Formal Cautions and Fixed Penalty Notices.
• Report and respond, advise and negotiate, persuade, arbitrate and take enforcement action to resolve as appropriate incidents of environmental crime, including fly-tipping, littering, dog fouling, graffiti and abandoned vehicles.
• Keep up to date with environmental and waste enforcement legislation.

• Good knowledge of environmental enforcement.
• Excellent team-player, as you will work closely with other teams in the Council and with the public.
• Possibly CIWM accredited or willing to work towards this.

• Role requires you to regularly use a vehicle, therefore you must possess a valid UK Driving Licence.
• Role requires you to work some evenings and weekends occasionally.
• Successful applicants will be subject to a DBS check (applied and paid for by the Council).

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays (and Christmas shutdown)
• Hybrid/agile working from day one
• Local Government pension
• Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments
• Cashback website access for savings on brands you love
• Volunteering days
• Free parking

Many of our colleagues work flexibly for us. We're always open to conversations around different working arrangements. If you're interested in part-time, compressed hours or any other working arrangement, please get in touch with us through the Contact Us form on our careers website.