Ecologist

**About the role**
Customers come to us because we can take on and solve any kind of challenge, no matter how complex. Join our **Power T&D team** as an **Ecologist **on the** BTNO project** and you’ll help make this happen.

**What you'll be doing**
As an Ecologist you will be expected to
- Provide pragmatic support and advice to contract and operational teams on site with delivering ecological requirements to programme, budget and quality standard.
- Problem-solve, finding practical cost-effective solutions to ecological challenges facing construction teams.
- Liaise with design teams, clients and stakeholders
- Provide ecological consultancy services to external and internal clients including surveys, mitigation and enhancement design, and on-site support.
- Provide technical support for Biodiversity Net Gain initiatives.
- Actively help deliver a culture of continual improvement of on-site ecological practice that is solution-orientated to support construction teams.
- Reporting to the Balfour Beatty Ecology Technical Specialist on the following key activities:

- Provide pragmatic advice and site support to operational teams on ecological requirements
- Develop and support implementation of ecological management plans
- Build relationships with regulators, clients and design teams, and internal teams.
- Ensure the company environmental management system is maintained in line with changing standards and legislation and liaise with senior team lead on changes required
- Investigate and report ecological incidents
- Undertake habitat suitability assessments and protected species surveys

**Who we're looking for**

The following qualities/experience are essential:

- Excellent knowledge of ecological management and mitigation
- Excellent understanding of ecological legalisation for development
- Good level of commercial awareness
- Full UK driver’s licence and flexibility to travel
- Good understanding of environmental management for construction sites
- Excellent understanding of the utilities/construction/engineering operating environment
- Literate in MS Office - Word, Excel, Outlook
- Good interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills
- CIEEM Membership
- Experience of working on large scale infrastructure construction/highways projects

The following qualities/experience are desirable:

- At least one protected species survey licence

**Why work for us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

**Why join us?**

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

**About us**
Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.

From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Job Reference: BBUK09037