Job Description

Senior Ecologist

• Consultancy - renewables, infrastructure & sustainable development
• Aberdeen or Inverness
• Salary £35,000 - £45,000
• Permanent fulltime

CleanTech Talent are seeking a Senior Ecologist or Lead Ecologist for a long-standing reputable client supporting the renewable energy sector, infrastructure, ports & harbours and more in Scotland.

With multiple offices in Scotland and a reputation spanning three decades, receive best in class in house training and support.

To summarise:

• Small to medium size multi-disciplinary environmental consultancy operating successfully in the UK for over three decades
• Regionally managed with a alignment
• Agile mindset with people & technology development at heart
• Harnessing a collegiate atmosphere to enable development
• Responsible, relevant & sustainable practices
• Care deeply and celebrate loudly
• Take each day as a blend of meaningful work, good laughs and honest conversations
• Easily accessible office in Inverness, with scope for travel across Scotland
• Cross-team projects, project management development and established yet continuously developing business processes.
• You will receive guidance and technical support with specific training and mentoring in your chosen field combined with work ownership and a generous salary and benefits package.
• Read on for more details!

Company

CleanTech Talent are acting as an employment agency for our client who are one of the most valued consultancies in Scotland spanning multiple offices, offering cross-team projects, project management development and established yet continuously developing business processes.

You will receive guidance and technical support with specific training and mentoring in your chosen field combined with work ownership and a generous salary and benefits package.

Investment in you and your success. They support their people to innovate, collaborate and achieve their next career steps.

Role – Senior Ecologist

You will be joining the highly respected team to support in the delivery of a variety of environmental and nature-based engineering projects at every stage of the lifecycle.

An incredible opportunity for an individual to demonstrate a broad range of ecology skills by undertaking specialist technical work, whilst working as part of a passionate, integrated, dynamic environmental team that spans our four regions. You will have experience of projects across a range of sectors and be able to liaise directly with stakeholders and colleagues of other technical disciplines to achieve the best environmental outcomes for our clients and their projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Planning and undertaking targeted habitat and species surveys.
• Producing high quality reports including Preliminary Ecological Appraisal.
• Undertaking design of ecological mitigation and advising on its delivery.
• Managing small to medium scale projects (particularly project budgets and deadlines) and contributing to large scale project delivery with support from the wider team.
• Liaising with ecological regulators and planning authorities.
• Liaising with clients, partner organisations and sub-consultants concerning all areas relevant to our projects.
• Delivering technical work within your specialisms, on complex or challenging projects.
• proposal preparation and tender bid submissions.
• Attendance to meetings, provide advice to clients and internal multi-discipline team members.

Essential Experience

• You will hold a relevant degree
• Current environmental legislation, policy trends policy trends, standards and established ecological guidance
• Habitat and species survey, assessment and mitigation for one or more species group (preference for bats and other British mammals, GCN, and botanical knowledge)
• Experience in writing or contributing to HRA, EcIA and Ecology Chapters for Environmental Statements
• Solid technical report writing skills and a track record of effective project management, delivering tasks on time and to budget
• Confident in a client facing capacity with a knowledge of the environmental consultancy market
• A full, clean, UK driving licence

Desirable Experience

• MSc in a relevant environmental discipline
• Experience in Ecological Clerk of Works (ECoW) or working with site contractors to deliver advice and mitigation on site to ensure client commitments are met;
• Skills in GIS, QGIS and QField.
• A current CSCS card or equivalent
• Candidates keen to mentor junior staff are highly desirable.

What’s in it for you?

• Salary up to £45,000 depending on experience
• 35 hours working week
• Annual salary reviews
• Support from a consultancy with over 20 years operating in the market
• Investment in your training and success
• Full project lifecycle work across a range of environmental disciplines
• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office or onsite and 2 remote
• Established benefits of working with a dynamic and growing organisation
• 20 days annual leave plus 11 bank holidays, of which a proportion can be used flexibly and not on set bank holiday days
• Training allowance annually – bespoke to you and your development needs – internal and external resources.
• One Professional subscription paid for each year
• Company Pension contribution – 5-8%
• Flexible weekly working hours promoting work-life balance – 35 hours p/w
• Full time / Part time considered
• Volunteer days for community projects
• Nominated charity events
• Group income protection
• Cycle to work – great rates on new bikes
• Year round Health & Wellbeing – Employee Assistance Program and Occupational Health, GP Service.

What’s next?

If you're interested in applying or would at least like to know a bit more then please apply or contact Jim Merryfield at CleanTech Talent for a confidential call.