Principal Ecologist

7 months ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Navartis Full time

**Principal Ecologist**

**Location**: Manchester

**Salary**: Negotiable commensurate with experience plus a fantastic package including:

- Flexible hybrid working;
- TOIL (time off in lieu) policy and flexible approach to working hours to ensure a healthy work-life balance.
- 26 days annual leave (& bank holidays) plus an additional day for each year of service up to 29 days
- Opportunities for career development across the business
- Socials, games nights and volunteering days through our staff engagement and development initiative;
- Fantastic training

**Are you an experienced ecologist with a strong business acumen looking for a new challenge?**

As a dynamic and growing consultancy my client is looking for a self-motivated and positive-minded Principal Ecologist to join their friendly team in Manchester

The successful applicant would be involved in all areas of our work, managing a team of ecologists to find ecologically smart, commercially efficient and cost-effective solutions for projects on a variety of scales.

Day to day, you would be managing individual contracts and supporting staff, drafting high quality reports and reviewing technical work, whilst supporting clients and their design teams to identify solutions to their problems. We're keen to continue to grow our business, and you would therefore support the delivery of our business development strategy by costing and tendering for work, increasing invitations to bid, and finding new ways for the business to diversify and thrive.

This role would provide you with an opportunity to gain exposure to a wide variety of interesting projects and clients and develop skills in all aspects of consultancy work. We would like to offer you the chance to help shape the future of our business as well as your own career.

**To be considered for the role, you will**:

- Hold an appropriate degree qualification;
- Have a minimum of 8 years' relevant work experience;
- Have excellent knowledge of UK and European environmental legislation;
- Be able to critically review own output and possess a minimum 5 years' experience in reviewing others' work;
- Be competent in the survey of and mitigation for 2 or more of the following key protected species: bats, badgers, breeding birds, dormouse, great crested newts, reptiles, and water voles;
- Hold an EPS and/or conservation licence for one or more of the above species groups, and preferably be a Registered consultant on the class license scheme for one or more of the above species groups:

- Have proven project and staff management experience;
- Be confident and able to manage own workload, be proactive in managing projects and be able to delegate to and provide support to junior staff as appropriate;
- Be proficient in customer service and the ability to deliver and lead training events and workshops, both internally to Temple and externally to clients and other stakeholders;
- Hold full membership of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) and preferably CEcoL;
- Have proven qualities of a proactive self-starter with an ability to use own initiative when appropriate;
- Have a full clean UK driving licence.
- Knowledge of project management techniques and methodologies and have a passion for project delivery, ensuring client satisfaction is achieved on time and within budget.

**Desirable**

The business also have a specific requirement for an experienced ecologist with experience in high level reptile mitigation.

Applications are particularly welcome from ecologists who have botany as a specialism and are, or could be certified at FISC level 4 or above.

**Get in touch for more information and to apply.**

Navartis Ltd is a specialist recruitment company supplying highly skilled technical and management professionals within the global Transportation, Civil Engineering & Utility industries, if you are seeking a new position our recruitment team can locate the opportunity to suit your needs.

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