Westlakes Recruit are looking for a Senior/Principal Ecologist based in Belfast, who will work within a team throughout the UK to deliver a diverse range of challenging and exciting projects that benefit our clients, biodiversity, and society.
Key Roles/Responsibilities:
1. Client facing/client interaction - The candidate will demonstrate a deep understanding of clients' requirements and be able to reach back into the business to get the support required to fulfill those requirements and develop relationships/work.
2. Leading on nationally important infrastructure projects, managing project programmes and budgets.
3. Planning and undertaking field surveys; analysing and interpreting survey results with a strong focus on bat ecology.
4. Designing and co-coordinating ecological mitigation.
5. Authoring and checking/reviewing a range of ecological reports and licence applications.
6. Leadership - the candidate will have a leadership role managing projects, building client relationships, and work bank.
7. Interdisciplinary engagement - the candidate will actively seek to engage with other areas of the business, seeking opportunities to cross-sell and preparing leverage, preparing bids, supporting on strategic opportunities, building client relationships (internal and external), and driving work-winning in the region.
8. The candidate will actively identify, raise, manage, and mitigate risks, particularly within a Project/Framework environment.
9. The candidate will proactively provide innovation on projects and within the ecology team.
10. The candidate will coach, mentor, and support other staff members in their development.
Experience and Skills Requirements:
1. Membership of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM), or equivalent, and chartership (CEcol or CEnv) or working towards this.
2. Strong skills in report writing, including preparing Preliminary Ecological Assessments, Ecological Impact Assessments, Biodiversity Chapters for Ecological Impact Assessments, and Habitats Regulations Assessment (including Appropriate Assessment).
3. Protected species survey licence(s). A background in complex bat impact assessments/licensing would be desirable but not essential.
4. Strong working knowledge and experience of UK Habitat survey, habitat condition assessments, and the Defra Biodiversity Metric. Demonstrable experience of undertaking Biodiversity Net Gain assessments.
5. Experience of undertaking quality assurance and technical lead roles for projects.
6. Demonstrable project management experience including technical, financial, and quality assurance aspects.
7. Demonstrable experience of working on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects and familiarity with the Development Consent Order (DCO) process would be viewed favourably.
8. A desire to contribute to the growth and development of the team.
9. A full UK/EEC driving licence.
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