We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Ecologist to join our Sustainability team at Balfour Beatty VINCI. As a key member of our team, you will play a crucial role in driving the delivery of HS2's Green Corridor.

• Oversight and management of a small team of ecology personnel, including ECoWs, EPS AAs, and AAPs, surveyors, and junior ecologists.
• Reviewing and authorizing ecological permits to enable construction works.
• Project management of ecological mitigation works packages to enable construction activities.
• Developing and supporting implementation of ecological method statements and associated documents for construction.
• Overseeing and assuring on-site ecological walk-overs, desk-based reviews, and surveys to identify ecological mitigation requirements for construction.
• Providing pragmatic support and advice to BBV construction teams, environmental managers, and sub-contractors to deliver ecological mitigation requirements to programme and to the HS2 Technical Requirements, and to policy and legal requirements.

• Strong project management experience and good 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.

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
• 62 overbridges
• 35 cuttings
• 56 culverts
• 62 embankments
• 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels
• 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

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.