Role – Senior Ecologist
Location – Greater Manchester
Salary - £35 - £40K DOE
Lead Careers are working with a well-established multidisciplinary consultancy who are looking for a Senior Ecologist to join their friendly team. They work out of 5 offices UK wide, this particular role will be based out of their Greater Manchester office. The successful Senior Ecologist will be involved in all areas of their work including co-ordinating and undertaking protected species surveys and mitigation projects, advising clients of constraints and survey requirements, preparing ecology chapters for Environmental Impact Assessments, and managing a team of ecologists to find commercially efficient and cost-effective project solutions. This position offers a great opportunity for the right candidates to lead and deliver complex contracts and support more junior staff, draft high-quality reports and review technical work, as well as support clients and their design teams by identifying solutions to their problems.
SENIOR ECOLOGIST KEY SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
- A degree in Ecology or a closely related subject
- 5 years’ relevant work experience
- Full member of CIEEM or eligible
- Excellent knowledge of UK and relevant European environmental legislation
- Excellent fieldwork and report writing skills
- Excellent skills liaising with clients, contractors, sub-contractors and third-party stakeholders
- The ability to critically review your own work and a minimum 2 years’ experience of reviewing others’ work
- Be competent in the survey of and mitigation for one or more of the following key protected species: bats, badgers, birds, dormice, great crested newts, reptiles, and water vole
- Hold an EPS and/or conservation licence for one or more of the above species groups
- Demonstrable project and staff management experience
- Have a full clean UK driving licence
- Be eligible to work within the UK
ON OFFER
- Competitive salary DOE plus London weighting
- TOIL (time off in lieu) policy and flexible approach to working hours to ensure a healthy work-life balance.
- 26 days annual leave (& bank holidays) plus an additional day for each year of service up to 29 days
- Enhanced maternity pay
- Ongoing CPD
- Auto-enrolment pension scheme (after 3 months’ service)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Socials, games nights and volunteering days through our staff engagement and development initiative
- Fun, friendly, and forward-thinking co-workers
- Excellent training opportunities
- An Equal Opportunities Employer
THE NEXT STEP
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