Ecological Consultant

2 months ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom Proactive Solutions Group Ltd Full time

Ecological Consultant

Ecological Consultant. An Edinburgh based environmental consulting firm are looking for an Ecological Consultant to join the team. The Ecological Consultant role will include a requirement to assist with business generation, project management and mentoring of junior staff. The Ecological Consultant should be members of, or working towards membership of the CIEEM or an equivalent professional body.

The Ecological Consultant will:

To provide a high standard of scoping, survey design, survey capability and factual, interpretative, advisory, Ecological Impact Assessment and legal reporting output, adhering to deadlines and working in a safe, accurate, timely and effective manner.
To deliver ecological surveys to a high standard
To ensure compliance with Health and Safety requirements at all times
To act as Project Manager for projects awarded to the company.
To provide specialist site based support to clients through delivery of ECoW role
To effectively manage sub-contractors and to quality check that the work and deliverables are undertaken/provided to the standard required.
To mentor junior members of staff where required to do so.
To play an active part in attracting new clients and generating new business for the company.
To operate in compliance with the Staff Handbook, appropriate Code(s) of Professional Conduct and with strict regard to relevant legal requirements.
To continue to develop professionally and to make a positive contribution to the overall performance of the Company.

The Ecological Consultant core duties will be:

To undertake ecological surveys, site visits, site meetings and ECoW role as required, recording to a high technical standard as well as generating relevant plans and reports such as extended phase 1 reports, NVC reports, habitat management plans, construction environmental management plans, site waste management plans, peat management plans etc.
To perform the role of Project Manager for projects. These are likely to be small to medium in size but may also include larger more complex projects where required. The post holder will increasingly take responsibility for directing their own projects, but will always be able to draw upon support provided by the Senior Ecologist/ Principal Environmental Consultant/ Technical Director/ Director who is named in the proposal as the person responsible for technical direction of that particular project as well as the wider team.
To continue to develop responsibility for reducing risks and minimising liability. Including, in particular, being responsible for both personal and the team's health and safety through ensuring that the projects for which the Consultant is manager comply with Health & Safety Procedures, and ensuring that the team on any project for which the Consultant is the Project Manager complies with the ISO 9001 Quality Management System.
To practice strict budgetary discipline, in particular by ensuring that the scope of work and the time available is clearly understood and communicated to the project team before commencing work on any given task. To draw upon the support available from both Line Manager and Team providing technical direction in respect of any project for which the Ecological Consultant is manager, by adequate planning and monitoring of the project workload and budgets to ensure that there is no avoidable overspend.
To become entirely confident with legislation pertaining to nature conservation, able to apply it to projects and negotiate subtleties with third parties, including planning authorities and statutory agencies.
To produce accurate and well-presented factual baseline, interpretative, advisory, legal compliance and Ecological Impact Assessment reports and EIA's, demonstrating an excellent standard of written English and a high level of competence in using Word.
To contribute to marketing activities, e.g. marketing campaigns and materials, press releases, snippets for website, twitter, articles, identification and attendance at suitable conferences and exhibitions, etc.
To increasingly attract new clients and generate new business for the company, not just by reactively writing tenders/proposals, but also by proactively identifying and contacting prospective clients in accordance with priorities set out in the Business Plan and/or as agreed with their Line Manager.
To work with their Line Manager to agree personal professional development objectives and identify training courses to attend and other activities to undertake as part of his/her Continuing Professional Development.
The Ecological Consultant will need suitable recent relevant experience.

The Ecological Consultant starting salary is £28k + benefits

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