Company Profile
The Coal Authority
Company Overview
The Coal Authority is based in Nottinghamshire, England. We provide expert advice and creative solutions to manage the public safety and environmental issues from coal and metal mining. We work to resolve the impacts of mining by developing innovative solutions and technologies. We provide advice, services to governments, public bodies, private organisations and landowners.
Company History
The last deep mine closed in December 2015, so why does the Coal Authority still exist? Well, we were established in 1994 to undertake specific statutory duties. They include dealing with the legacy of coal mining including the treatment of polluting mine water and mine gas emissions, remediating coal mining subsidence damage and dealing with ground and mine entry collapses.
To give you an idea of the extent of our legacy, 7 million properties sit within coalfields and there are 170,000 recorded mine entries not to mention the ones we don’t know about. To enable us to carry out our statutory duties we receive funding from government, but we’re becoming more self-sufficient by realising the economic value in our people and in the information we hold.
Benefits
When it comes to finding and keeping the best people, we make sure we’ve got plenty to offer you in return. We want our people to feel great about coming to work and we hope we give them every reason to go the extra mile. That’s why along with the scope to develop new skills and have an exciting and satisfying career, we also offer:
• Civil Service Pension Scheme – a new employee earning between £22,501- £45,000 will pay 5.45% of their Monthly Gross Basic Salary into their pension and we will pay 20.9% plus any contributions from the HMRC. (For more information go to http://www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk/)
• Generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days per year (plus bank holidays)
• Flexi-time – our core hours are 10.00am-12.00pm and 2.00pm-4.00pm but the hours either side can be worked flexibly. You can also earn an extra 6 days holiday a year through our flexi system
• Family friendly initiatives, including a childcare voucher scheme
• Health friendly initiatives, including ‘Cycle to work’ scheme and an annual ‘MOT’ medical
• Free parking on site
• Free 24-hour counselling and information service for you and your family
As well as the great benefits and incentives, once you start, you’ll get an induction into the business and time to spend with our teams to find out everything you need to know about our journey so far.