Compliance Officer

Environmental Protection Authority NZ

Compliance Officer ensuring environmental regulatory compliance at the Environmental Protection Authority in New Zealand. Work in compliance, monitoring, and proactive campaigns with a focus on community and sustainability.

Posted 6/9/2026full-timeWellington • 🇳🇿 New ZealandMid-LevelSenior💰 NZ$87,702 - NZ$131,554 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

We are looking for regulatory practitioners with experience in carrying out a range of compliance, monitoring and enforcement activities and initiatives to ensure compliance across the EPA’s legislative mandate.
This includes the delivery of our CME functions as well as providing quality technical and procedural advice, and maintaining professional relationships with regulated parties.
You will be responsible for conducting and assisting with compliance activities within technically complex facilities whilst adhering to health and safety policies and procedures to mitigate risk.
You will be solution focused, able to identify system improvements and support the delivery of training within CME whilst adhering to organisational values and behaviours.
In the Compliance team you will be acting on notifications of non-compliance from the public and from your colleagues, triaging and looking in this information, and taking the appropriate response to resolve any non-compliances identified.
In the Monitoring team you will be ensuring compliance across a range of approved activities and ensuring that duty holders are meeting the obligations of those approvals.
This team is particularly focused on the higher risk activities and the minimising the potential environmental harm from them.
In the Proactive Campaigns team you will be tasked with finding innovative solutions to fix environmental issues at a system level.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience in regulatory compliance, monitoring and/or enforcement, ideally within central or local government.
Demonstrated ability to communicate complex information in a clear and logical manner ensuring key messages are clear for the audience.
Ability to analyse complex technical and scientific data and an ability to identify non-compliance with legislation.
Applied knowledge of regulatory compliance approaches, principles and processes.
Sound judgement, common sense, and a calmness under pressure.

Benefits

Comp & perks

flexible working culture
three additional paid leave days between Christmas and New Years in addition to four weeks’ annual leave
$400 non-taxable payment to help you set up working at home
an annual paid EPA Environment Day to support the community with environmental initiatives
in-house Māori cultural capability building programme
learning opportunities, including the annual EPA Symposium
active and lively social club, and diverse groups and support networks
EPA awards recognising individual and team effort
relocation help for those moving to New Zealand from overseas.

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Hard Skills & Tools

regulatory compliancemonitoringenforcementtechnical advicecompliance activitieshealth and safety policiessystem improvementsdata analysislegislation compliance

Soft Skills

communicationproblem-solvingjudgementcalmness under pressurerelationship management