Job title: Senior Ecologist
Salary: £32,000 - £40,000
Location: Norwich
Penguin Recruitment are working with one of the UK's leading independent infrastructure and property consultancies, specialising in environment, planning and sustainability. The award-winning company is looking for a Senior Ecologist to join their Norwich office. As a growing medium-sized business, they are searching for self-motivated and positive-minded Ecologists. This position could provide a great opportunity to lead and deliver complex contracts and support more junior staff, draft high-quality reports and review technical work, as well as support clients and their design teams by identifying solutions to their problems.
The Senior Ecologist position offers:
- £32,000 - £40,000 per annum dependent on experience
- TOIL (time off in lieu) policy and flexible approach to working hours
- 26 days holiday per year increasing to 29 within 3 years
- Ability to purchase additional leave
- Pension scheme including employer pension contribution of 4%
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- 1 paid volunteering day per year
- Flexible and agile working culture
As a Senior Ecologist, your main duties will be:
- Leading complex projects including surveying technical sites
- Reviewing reports
- Project management
- Mentoring junior staff
- Providing direct consultancy to clients, giving best advice and practice
To be considered for the Senior Ecologist position, you will need:
- A relevant degree qualification.
- Proven experience in ecological consultancy or related work.
- Excellent fieldwork skills with experience of a range of fauna and flora survey methods.
- Excellent knowledge of relevant UK and European environmental legislation.
- Hold membership of CIEEM
- Hold a species licence in one or more of the following species groups: bats, badgers, birds, dormice, great crested newts, reptiles, and water voles.
- Full clean UK driving licence
If you are interested in this or other ecology roles? Please contact Lloyd Key via or call . We have many more vacancies available on our website.
Please refer to www.penguinrecruitment.co.uk.
This is a permanent role.
Penguin Recruitment is operating as a Recruitment Agency in respect to this position.