Principal Ecologist

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom Natural HR Limited Full time

Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain's biggest construction project?

Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain's new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It's an incredibly exciting time to join us - we're at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you'd join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Principal Ecologist within the environment function. This role will be based across multiple sites Lichfield / Tamworth / Birmingham / Kenilworth.

To perform a key role in driving the delivery of HS2's Green Corridor, assisting the BBV Construction Ecology Lead with:


• Providing inspiration and technical guidance to the BBV Ecology Team.


• Ensuring the delivery of works in accordance with HS2 Technical Standards, legislation, policy and best practice guidelines.


• The implementation, monitoring and review of protected species mitigation.


• The delivery of habitat creation and enhancement measures, including adaptive management based on the outcomes of monitoring data.


• Driving of initiatives for identification and safeguarding of retained habitats.


• Technical assurance of BBV and Subcontractor deliverables and scopes of work.


• The project management of ecological works packages to enable construction or mitigation activities.

Experienced required


•Thorough understanding and experience of implementing ecological best practice, standards and guidance


• Strong project management experience and organisational skills


• Excellent knowledge and experience of ecological management and mitigation for major infrastructure projects


• Educated to degree or Masters level in Ecological related subject


• Excellent understanding of ecological legalisation for development and HS2


• Full UK driver's licence and flexibility to travel
• Protected species licence holder; desirable to be a mitigation licence holder


• Excellent understanding of the utilities/construction/engineering operating environment


• Good interpersonal skills and experience of overseeing junior personnel


• Excellent communication skills and a solution-driven attitude when hosting and contributing to meetings


• Experienced with communicating with Natural England on projects species licences


• Skills in working collaboratively to obtain the best outcome for the project


• Determination to see tasks through to completion with excellent planning

Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

Benefits of working with us


• Flexible working available for some roles


• Travel allowance for eligible candidates


• Family friendly leave policies


• Health risk assessments


• Access to employee assistance programmes


• Access to annual flu vaccinations

About Balfour Beatty VINCI

Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI's role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:


• 9.3km of viaducts


• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels


• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

Diversity and Inclusion

Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.

We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.

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