Environmental Health Technician - ANG05471

Angus Council is hiring an Environmental Health Technician to join their Environmental Protection team in Arbroath, UK. The role involves sampling private water supplies and addressing environmental health issues like air quality and public complaints. The position offers flexible working arrangements, including the option to work from home. This temporary role is available until March 26, 2026, and candidates should have good computer skills.
Job Description

Based at Bruce House, Wellgate, Arbroath.

This job is workstyle 4.

You will have the opportunity to benefit from our flexible and agile working practices. This means you will work from a variety of locations, working from council buildings, working in service user’s locations and site visits and you can work from home to best suit your work, meetings and collaboration.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Environmental Protection team within Environmental Health at Angus Council.

Predominantly responsible for the sampling of private water supplies across the Glens of Angus, the role will include variety of environmental health related duties such as air quality monitoring and public nuisance complaints.

The successful candidate should have good computer skills and an understanding of key environmental health functions.

This job is temporary until no later than 26 March 2026.

Internal and external applications on a secondment basis will be considered. You must have the approval of your line manager / organisation.

Please note interviews will be held - to be confirmed.
Requirements

Please refer to job outline and person specification for further details and requirements for this job.
About Angus Council

Please refer to the "applicant guidance" document when completing your application form and to the "welcome to Angus" document and our website https://www.angus.gov.uk/jobs_and_training/working_for_angus_council for more information about working for Angus Council.
The Individual

We are happy to discuss flexible working during the recruitment process for this position. This means we are open to a conversation about working patterns and the flexibility that is available for this role whilst managing the workload.

We offer a guaranteed job interview to the following people who meet the essential criteria on application for a job:

Those with disabilities, recognised caring responsibilities and care experienced young people. This also applies to our own employees with caring responsibilities, young people on apprenticeships and placements who meet the essential criteria for the job.