Senior Ecologist / Environmentalist (Temp To Perm)

Your new company
My client is a leading provider of full life-cycle engineering, operations and decarbonisation solutions, for transport infrastructure and complex facilities.
Working for them, you'll be delivering sustainable infrastructure solutions that enhance life and protect our shared future.
Your new role
This is a 3-month temporary position with the intention of becoming permanent thereafter. You\'ll be supporting a large highways contract in the East Midlands from and impact assessment and ecological perspective.
Responsibilities may include (depending on successful candidate):

• Writing and reviewing quality reports
• Project management
• Lead and manage environmental assessments, impact studies, and compliance evaluations for infrastructure projects.
• Develop and implement innovative solutions to minimize the environmental impact of projects, including waste management, energy efficiency, and carbon footprint reduction.
• The preparation and checking of reports, designs, calculations and documentation as part of the production of scheme deliverables that satisfy the overarching criteria of quality, cost and programme.
• Overseeing the actions of more junior members of staff undertaking similar tasks and taking responsibility for their actions
• Responsibility for the commercial success of the projects within their portfolio, controlling budgets and managing the costs associated with the production of deliverables
• Liaising with client and supplier representatives at peer level, attending progress meetings, responding to queries etc.
• Drive effective health and safety practices within the team
• Ecological Impact Assessments and further detailed assessments.
• Biodiversity Impact Assessments
• Protected and priority species surveys

What you\'ll need to succeed

• Developed experience and expertise within the relevant technical field, probably gained in an Environmental Consultant / Ecologist role or equivalent.
• Able to produce technically sound environmental solutions, complying with all relevant technical standards and client requirements, working unsupervised and supervising more junior members of staff undertaking similar tasks.
• Experienced in undertaking project related tasks
• Capable of acting as day-to-day main engineering contact for a project where required under the terms of the commission.
• Very good working knowledge of relevant software and similar analytical tools
• Demonstrates good commercial awareness.
• Ideally, Chartered Environmentalist status, gained through the professional institution to which the individual is aligned.
• Protected species license - bat preferred, GCN second.

What you\'ll get in return

• £30 p/hour, going to a permanent salary of up to £46,000
• Hybrid working (4 days at home in 10)

What you need to do now
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