Overview

We have an exciting Senior Ecological Consultant position based in and around Birmingham.

As a Senior Ecological Consultant, you will play a key role in driving your team’s financial success by preparing compelling tenders, efficiently managing projects, and fostering strong relationships with clients. Your contributions will also support the company’s vision and values by delivering high-quality technical work within specified timelines and consistently upholding the company’s standards of excellence.

Some of the duties include:

  • Lead and manage large, complex projects, ensuring seamless execution from start to finish.
  • Handle technically challenging tasks, including European Protected Species Licence (EPSL) applications, Ecological Impact Assessments (EcIAs), and Habitats Regulations Assessments (HRA).
  • Deliver high-quality reports and outputs for clients, consistently meeting or exceeding project deadlines and budget constraints.
  • Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with clients, ensuring continued trust and satisfaction.
  • Document relevant professional experience and leverage it to advance toward obtaining protected species licenses.
  • Take ownership for the quality of survey work by providing leadership and direction to the field team.
  • Ensure clear and effective communication by keeping project managers and team leads informed of all critical project developments.
  • Maintain active membership with CIEEM.

Senior Ecological Consultants often serve as line managers, overseeing and guiding a small team of Ecological Consultants and Assistant Ecologists. Some Senior Ecological Consultants may also take on roles as technical leads.

Salary: from £34,000 per annum, dependent on skillset.

Requirements

To be considered, you will be an experienced Ecologist with an ecological or related subject degree.

You will be technically competent, with an in-depth knowledge of ecology, legislation and survey techniques with advanced field skills in one or more specialist areas, as well as holding protected species licences.

You will also hold a clean, valid UK driving licence and have your own car / access to a car which will be insured for business use.

We would be especially interested in hearing from applicants with ornithological skills, botany skills or the ability to hold mitigation licences. However, none of these are essential.

As an equal opportunities employer, Thomson is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, gender reassignment, being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave, disability, race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation.

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