Senior Ecology/Ecologist

Edinburgh (HYBRID/REMOTE)
Are you looking for a flexible and supportive
Senior Ecologist
opportunity within a people-focused and innovative consultancy with a long-standing history of providing excellence to the Energy Development sector and beyond?
Talent are acting as an employment agency for our client who are one of the most valued consultancies in Scotland spanning multiple offices, offering cross-team projects, project management development and
You will receive guidance and technical support with specific training and mentoring in your chosen field combined with work ownership and a generous salary and benefits package.
Senior Ecologist
a broad range of ecology skills by undertaking specialist technical work, whilst working as part of a passionate, integrated, dynamic environmental team that spans our four regions. You will have experience of projects across a range of sectors and be able to liaise directly with stakeholders and colleagues of other technical disciplines to achieve the best environmental outcomes for our clients and their projects.
to support in the delivery of a variety of environmental and nature-based engineering projects
.
Planning and undertaking targeted habitat and species
surveys.
Producing high quality reports including Preliminary Ecological
Managing small to medium scale projects (particularly project budgets and deadlines
) contributing to large scale project delivery with support from the wider
Liaising with ecological regulators and planning
projects.
projects.
urrent environmental legislation, policy trends policy trends, standards and
abitat and species survey,
Experience in writing or contributing to HRA,
and Ecology Chapters for Environmental Statements
technical report writing skills and
of effective project management, delivering tasks on time and to
with a knowledge of the environmental consultancy
A full, clean, UK driving licence
MSc in a relevant environmental discipline
or working with site contractors to deliver advice and mitigation on site to ensure client commitments are
Skills in GIS, QGIS and
A current CSCS card or equivalent
Candidates keen to mentor junior staff are highly desirable.
Annual salary reviews
Investment in your training and success
Full project lifecycle work across a range of environmental disciplines
Hybrid working
3 days in the office or onsite
remote
20 days annual leave plus 11 bank holidays, of which a proportion can be used flexibly and not on set bank holiday
Training allowance
Company Pension contribution
Flexible weekly working hours promoting work-life balance
Full time / Part time
Volunteer days for community
projects
Cycle to work
bikes
Employee Assistance Program and Occupational Health, GP Service.