Job Title: Senior Ecologist
Location: Midlands
Salary: £50,000 - £70,000
Are you a passionate, engaging, and proactive Senior Ecologist wanting to drive ecological changes and adaptive management including species and habitat monitoring?
If so, this is the job for you!
HSE Recruitment Network are recruiting for a Senior Ecologist to work on HS2, with the opportunity to represent a large scale construction company, who are at the forefront of construction throughout the UK and Europe.
The role will be focused on implementing ecological mitigation across various sites in the midlands including Lichfield/Tamworth/Birmingham/Kenilworth.
Main Responsibilities:
- Oversight and management of a small team of ecology personnel; including ECoWs, EPS AAs and AAPs, surveyors and junior ecologists.
- Reviewing and authorising ecological permits to enable construction works.
- Project management of ecological mitigation works packages to enable construction activities.
- Developing and supporting implementation of ecological method statements and associated documents for construction.
- Overseeing and assuring on-site ecological walk-overs, desk-based reviews and surveys to identify ecological mitigation requirements for construction.
- 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.
- Problem-solving and proactively finding practical, cost-effective solutions to ecological challenges facing BBV construction teams and sub-contractors.
- Adhering to BBV processes and document control requirements, keeping the required documentation and supporting audits as required.
- Undertaking inspections, implementing watching briefs and other on-site support for construction works.
- Compiling reports and other documentation as required for technical review and to revise documents for completion.
- Investigating and reporting ecological incidents.
- Proactively proposing ecological enhancement opportunities.
- Working with the BBV Arboricultural Lead on arboricultural mitigation for construction and the links with ecological mitigation for construction
- Actively engendering a culture of continual improvement of on-site ecological practice that is solution-orientated to support construction teams.
- Liaising with Design Joint Venture (DJV), Early Works Contractor (EWC), HS2, Ecology Supply Chain and other stakeholders where required.
Essential Experience, Training and Qualifications:
- Strong project management experience and good organisational skills
- Excellent knowledge and experience of ecological management and mitigation for major infrastructure projects
- Educated to degree or Masters level in Ecological related subject
- Excellent understanding of ecological legalisation for development and HS2
- Full UK driver's licence and flexibility to travel
- Protected species license holder; desirable to be a mitigation license holder
- Good understanding of environmental management for construction sites
- Excellent understanding of the utilities/construction/engineering operating environment
- Literate in MS Office – Word, Excel, Outlook & GIS
- Good interpersonal skills and experience of overseeing junior personnel
- Excellent communication skills and a solution-driven attitude when hosting and contributing to meetings
- CIEEM Membership or equivalent
- Excellent experience of ECOW working on large scale infrastructure construction/highways projects
- Experienced with communicating with Natural England on projects species licences
- Skills in working collaboratively to obtain the best outcome for the project
- Determination to see tasks through to completion with excellent planning
Ideal Personality Traits:-
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with gravitas and ability to influence and lead
- Comprehensive knowledge of Ecology practices and conservation
- Passionate about Ecology
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