Ecologist
Balfour Beatty VINCI, Draper's Fields, Coventry
Ecologist
Salary Not Specified
Balfour Beatty VINCI, Draper's Fields, Coventry
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 2 weeks ago, 20 Sep | Get your application in now before you miss out!
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 9716808123a44b498f084be5f19340f0
Full Job Description
- Providing pragmatic support and advice to BBV construction teams, environmental managers and sub-contractors to deliver ecological mitigation requirements to programme and to the HS2 Technical Requirements and to policy and legal requirements.
- Adhering to BBV processes and document control requirements, keeping the required documentation and supporting audits as required.
- Undertaking on-site ecological walk-overs, desk-based reviews and surveys to identify ecological mitigation requirements for construction.
Knowledge and experience of ecological management and mitigation for major infrastructure projects. - Educated to degree or Masters level in Ecological related subject.
- Understanding of ecological legalisation for development and HS2.
- Full UK driver's licence and flexibility to travel.
- Protected species licence holder; desirable to be a mitigation licence holder.
- Good understanding of environmental management for construction sites. Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.
Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain's new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It's an incredibly exciting time to join us - we're at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you'd join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region. We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Ecologist within the Environmental and Sustainability team. This role will be based on site in Warwickshire. Building a 12.5km stretch covering areas in Leamington Spa, Coventry, and Solihull. The sublot is responsible for the creation of viaducts, over bridges and, under bridges as well as a retaining structure at Stoneleigh Park Business Park. Sublot 2A is the southern most section of mainline. The sublot extends north from Southam through Warwickshire up towards Kenilworth., Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI's role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.