Senior Ecologist

Description

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.

• Maintain active membership with CIEEM.
• 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.
• Handle technically challenging tasks, including EPSL applications, EcIA chapters, and habitat regulation assessments.
• 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.
• Senior Ecological Consultants (SECs) often serve as line managers, overseeing and guiding a small team of Ecological Consultants and Assistant Ecologists. Some SECs may also take on roles as technical leads.
• Ensure clear and effective communication by keeping project managers and team leads informed of all critical project developments.
• Lead and manage large, complex projects, ensuring seamless execution from start to finish.

Requirements

All applicants must be based in the UK with the Right to Work in the UK.

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 a bat mitigation licence. However, none of these are essential.

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.

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

Benefits

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply to and join Thomson.

You’ll enjoy all the benefits we have to offer which include: 25 days annual leave, healthcare cash plan, enhanced stakeholder pension scheme, life insurance, discounted gym membership, paid professional memberships, clothing allowance, outstanding performance rewards, long service awards, free parking and regular local and company social events.

We are passionate about career development so we make sure we nurture talent. Our people benefit from access to a diverse range of industry-accredited external training, as well as in-house training opportunities led by our specialists. The variety of projects we deliver across the breadth of environmental services encourages cross-team working and collaboration. We can offer you the opportunity to contribute to and lead on high-profile, once in a life-time projects.

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

We recognise the importance in training and developing our team as well as offering a competitive pay and reward package.

We promote a healthy work-life balance to ensure we have an engaged, productive and happy team. We are flexible and committed and welcome new challenges.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance