Senior Ecologist
AtkinsRéalis, Can be based anywhere
Senior Ecologist
Salary Not Specified
AtkinsRéalis, Can be based anywhere
- Full time
- Permanent
- Remote working
Posted today, 25 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: d6a21348c01b4985bde35d6b3f4b5cf4
Full Job Description
- Leading on nationally important infrastructure projects, managing project programmes and budgets.
- Collaborating with our multi-disciplinary teams and undertaking stakeholder engagement.
- Planning, co-ordinating and undertaking field surveys, analysing and interpreting survey results using approaches such as biodiversity net gain or natural capital.
- Designing and co-ordinating ecological mitigation.
- Authoring and checking a range of ecological reports and licence applications.
- Managing work enquiries, preparing bids and building client relationships.
Ideally, you would have the following qualifications / memberships: - Membership of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) or an application in progress.
- A degree in ecology or closely related field.
- Demonstrable ecological knowledge, either as a species specialist, or generalist.
- Strong commercial skills. FISC level 4 would be particularly desirable but not essential.
- Natural England / Natural Resources Wales bat survey licence level 2 (or equivalent) would be particularly desirable but not essential.
- A full, clean driving licence.
At AtkinsRéalis, our team of ecologists work throughout the UK to deliver a diverse range of challenging and exciting projects that benefit our clients, biodiversity and society., Why work for AtkinsRéalis? We're ranked as one of LinkedIn's Top 25 Companies, where UK professionals want to work and stay once, they join. We've also made the Times Top 50 employers for women. Our Infrastructure team uses innovation, new approaches and the power of data to help our clients deliver end-to-end projects and programmes for essential future infrastructure. And as the work becomes ever more complex, our employees continue to challenge the status quo. We're committed to engineering better for people and our planet, from our global Engineering Net-Zero programme to creating social value through EDAROTH community housing. We're proud of our active employee networks creating awareness and allyship for our under-represented groups. Not to mention programmes supporting communities outside AtkinsRéalis, including schools, charities, ex-forces and professionals returning after career breaks., At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world-class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences.
To meet our growing project workload and help us design and apply new approaches to our work, we are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Ecologist to join our Bristol office. Joining us, you will have the opportunity to contribute to nationally significant and high-profile projects, with many of our projects winning awards for biodiversity enhancements, innovation, and knowledge sharing. Our ecology team also won the inaugural CIEEM Large-Scale Consultancy of the Year Award in 2018 and has been highly commended in the same award category each year thereafter. Please see a link to our AtkinsRéalis Ecology video We are the Ecology Team on Vimeo At AtkinsRéalis we are fully committed to promoting Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and work hard to make everyone feel respected, empowered and able to realise their full potential as important members of our team. Flexible working is a core part of our culture and we appreciate that different people have different priorities. We recognise that a healthy work/life balance is integral to wellbeing and we are extremely supportive of individual requirements for flexible and remote working. Read more about how you can thrive with us: Equality, diversity & inclusion in the UK & Europe (atkinsrealis.com)