CPR Looking for Senior Ecologist at United Kingdom Full Time

Senior Ecologist

We are currently working with a major engineering consultancy who are looking to expand their Environmental teams in Birmingham, Manchester, or York by recruiting a Senior Ecologist to work within the HS2 project team.  The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate a range of experience within the Civil Engineering/Transportation/Infrastructure sectors.

As Senior Ecologist your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Effective liaison and coordination with multidisciplinary design teams, as well as client facing liaison with statutory and non-statutory bodies
• Programming and coordination of data sets and site surveys and organising specialist ecological surveys as and when required. Ensuring tasks are correctly priced and seeing through delivery on time and to budget.
• Maintaining and constantly improving the ecological surveying and reporting procedure to increase effective information transfer throughout the scheme’s delivery process.
• Advise internal and external clients / colleagues on ecological matters
• Leading site walkovers / surveys
• Report writing and review of less senior ecologists site reports and associated documentation.
• Facilitation and project management of ecological mitigation design
• Undertake ecological assessment work as part of EIA’s
• Implement ecology related strategic documents such as management plans and minimum requirements
• Liaise with designers, contractors, and the client regarding ecological elements of schemes.
• Apply for licences and consents and understand undertakings and assurances associated with planning commitments.
• Deliver ecological training/workshops and element specific toolbox talks.
• Advise sub-contractors and in-house teams working on ecologically sensitive works.
• Actively promote Health and Safety in the workplace, setting a good example to other employees and ensuring awareness of and compliance with all legal requirements via the processes set out in the Health and Safety Procedures. Ensuring Team compliance on H&S for site visits
• For all works – always ensure compliance with European and UK Environmental and Wildlife Laws.
• Support the Environment Discipline Lead for the UK and Engineering Leads on all project works including – commercial aspects – accurate Fee Estimate production, forecasting, early warning notification etc including meetings with internal and external client Project Managers and specialists where fee estimate, and programme justification is required.
• Recommendations for environmental innovation and improvements for engineering schemes including the promotion of sustainable design solutions.

Job requirements:

• Degree in a relevant environmental subject
• Membership of a relevant professional body
• Chartered status or working towards
• Holding relevant licences i.e. GCN and/or bat licence is essential.
• ECI Contract experience on infrastructure projects would be an advantage.
• Standardised habitat survey methodologies (Phase 1, NVC etc.)
• UK protected and invasive species
• Key Environmental/Ecological legislation
• Faunal survey methodologies
• Biodiversity Action Planning
• Habitat creation techniques
• Ecological Management Plans
• Habitat management theory and practice
• UK species identification and taxonomy
• Conservation management and planning
• Environmental condition assessment
• Arboriculturally Expertise
• Experience in Biodiversity off setting / No Net Loss

As mentioned, this role as Senior Ecologist is based across any of the following offices: Birmingham, Manchester, or York. If this role is of interest, don’t hesitate to get in touch with Erin at Critical Project Resourcing.