Our client is an award-winning business growing rapidly. A career with them brings great opportunities to work with well-known organisations in Utilities including Telecoms, Power, Water, and Infrastructure providing property consultancy and management advice for new capital schemes and new built development opportunities.

Their expertise is highly sought after in national cross-country projects, referencing land, property management, acquisitions, route feasibility, compulsory purchase, negotiation of compensation claims and environmental planning.

Building on their success, our client has launched a new service area: Environmental Planning. This service area will provide planning and various technical environmental expertise to new and existing clients.

Role

Our client’s Environment and Planning team is growing, and this is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Ecologist to support this developing, expanding business area and to work on a wide variety of projects. Project work will vary from high-profile infrastructure projects across the UK, through to built development residential and mixed-use schemes.

Responsibilities

You’ll work with internal and external teams liaising with clients, Natural England, County Ecologists, Local Authority planning officers, and stakeholders whilst working on a wide range of utility and built development projects.

You’ll input into development and design proposals, including masterplanning and construction methodologies, assisting with gaining the necessary consents and licenses in order to deliver medium / large scale infrastructure, energy, residential and commercial projects. 

You’ll offer Ecological advice and provide innovative mitigation solutions enhancement consideration across a range of sites and schemes with varying levels of Environmental and Ecological sensitivities, including National and European designations.

You’ll be able to feed into Environmental Impact Assessment Screening, Scoping and chapters.

You’ll advise on ecological site constraints and advise on solutions/mitigation measures and have a commercial awareness on delivery and viability of projects.

You’ll provide ecological support to our client’s team, complete licence applications, and be the technical lead for ecological surveys.

Requirements

You may have some experience working within a consultancy environment, public sector or conservation body delivering projects for utility and / or built development.

You’ll have a detailed understanding of Ecological Impact Assessments, planning regulations, nature conservation legislations.

You’ll have a good knowledge of legislation and policy requirements associated with Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Special Protection Areas (SPA) and other relevant designations.

You’ll be familiar with GIS systems and understand environmental technical disciplines at a high level allowing you to coordinate and project manage their input into the delivery of the project.

You’ll work as part of a team of specialists and you’ll have great written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work closely with internal and external stakeholders.

You’ll hold a degree in an environmental related discipline and may be a member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environment Management (CIEEM) or an equivalent organisation.

You’ll be office based, but be expected to travel to meetings, client offices and inspect site works, therefore a full driving licence is required.

Location: Tewkesbury or Crewe

£ DOE

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