Description:
Customers come to us because we can take on and solve any kind of challenge, no matter how complex. Join our Power T&D team as an Ecologist on the BTNO project and you’ll help make this happen.
What you'll be doing
As an Ecologist - Ipswich you will be expected to -
- Provide pragmatic support and advice to contract and operational teams on site with delivering ecological requirements to programme, budget and quality standard.
- Problem-solve, finding practical cost-effective solutions to ecological challenges facing construction teams.
- Liaise with design teams, clients and stakeholders
- Provide ecological consultancy services to external and internal clients including surveys, mitigation and enhancement design, and on-site support.
- Provide technical support for Biodiversity Net Gain initiatives.
- Actively help deliver a culture of continual improvement of on-site ecological practice that is solution-orientated to support construction teams.
- Reporting to the Balfour Beatty Ecology Technical Specialist on the following key activities:
- Provide pragmatic advice and site support to operational teams on ecological requirements
- Develop and support implementation of ecological management plans
- Build relationships with regulators, clients and design teams, and internal teams.
- Support 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
- Investigate and report ecological incidents
- Undertake habitat suitability assessments and protected species surveys
Who we're looking for
The following qualities/experience are essential:
- Excellent knowledge of ecological management and mitigation
- Educated to degree or Masters level in Ecology or related subject
- Excellent understanding of ecological legalisation for development
- Good level of commercial awareness
- Full UK driver’s licence and flexibility to travel
- Good understanding of environmental management for construction sites
- Excellent understanding of the utilities/construction/engineering operating environment
- Literate in MS Office – Word, Excel, Outlook
- Good interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills
- CIEEM Membership
- Experience of working on large scale infrastructure construction/highways projects
The following qualities/experience are desirable:
- At least one protected species survey licence