Principal / Associate Director- Marine Ecologist

Are you passionate about positively influencing the environmental performance of marine development projects. Join our team as a Marine Ecologist and you will have the opportunity to apply your skills, knowledge and expertise on both national and international projects. We work across a diverse range of sectors, including high-profile power and infrastructure schemes (including floating offshore wind), national and international interconnectors, habitat restoration studies, flood defence schemes, and coastal developments (marinas, jetties, slipways, wharf and port developments etc.). We are a national team, and flexible in terms of your office location - ideally, you would be based in one of our offices across the UK including Basingstoke, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Croydon, Dublin, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London Aldgate, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Plymouth, and St Albans as well as taking advantage of our flexible hybrid working model. We are also flexible in terms of full or part-time working. In this role you will support and input to our growing portfolio of high-profile marine projects and help build and grow the team. What your new role will entail;

• Be a Subject Matter Expert: as a senior member of AECOM's marine ecology team you will provide technical marine ecological and marine consenting advice, internally and externally. You will manage inputs to a wide range of workstreams and deliverables across a really broad range of projects including involvement in the full EIA or DCO development cycle of major projects. You will be delivering marine ecology impact assessments including ES chapters and associated assessments (HRA, MCZ and WFD) and information to support the full range of licence and permitting applications needed for marine based projects.
• Ensure Quality: your role requires a critical eye for detail to ensure that our deliverables are produced to the highest quality standards and compliance with our rigorous quality management procedures. You will have excellent writing and communication skill, able to tailor complex scientific information for different audiences.
• Collaborate: you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to improve the environmental outcomes of our projects - this will include specialists in underwater acoustics, coastal processes, water scientists and marine archaeologists, as well as EIA colleagues.
• Growth and business development: you will contribute to work winning, including developing technical and fee proposals, as well as more general marketing and business development, including internal and external presentations and client liaison, to promote AECOM's environmental services
• Project Management: make effective use of your project management skills, appropriately managing resources and budgets (with support as applicable). Project management training to become an AECOM accredited PM is available for interested team members. You will also be required to support on procurement and management of specialist subcontractors when needed.
• Mentoring: your role will require you to help develop and train more junior members of the team.