Overview

Amazing infrastructure isn’t the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too. Join our Highways team as a Senior Site Ecologist – Manchester/Sheffield on our Northern projects and you can build something to be proud of.

 

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Balfour Beatty Head of Sustainability: Natural Environment and project leads, the Senior Site Ecologist will perform the following key activities:

    • Lead on delivery of project ecological requirements.
    • Develop and implement ecological management plans.
    • Build and maintain relationships with regulators, clients and design teams, and internal teams.
    • Ensure site compliance with ecological legislation and coach construction teams in applying controls and mitigations in pragmatic, cost-effective ways.
    • Ensure the company environmental management system is maintained in line with changing standards and legislation and liaise with senior team lead on changes required.
    • Lead investigations and report on ecological incidents.

 

Who we’re looking for

The following qualities/experience are essential:
    • Excellent knowledge of ecological management and mitigation
    • Excellent understanding of ecological legalisation for development
    • Good level of commercial awareness
    • Full driver’s licence and flexibility to travel
    • Good understanding of environmental management for construction sites
    • Good understanding of the utilities/construction/engineering operating environment
    • Literate in MS Office – Word, Excel, Outlook
    • Excellent communication skills

The following qualities/experience are desirable:

    • Educated to degree or Masters level in Ecology or related subject
    • At least one protected species survey licence and/ or preferably experienced in badger mitigation
    • Experience of working on large scale infrastructure construction projects
    • Full CIEEM Membership
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