Ecology Team Leader

Ecology Team Leader – East Midlands

Are you a Principal or Associate Ecologist looking to develop your career and lead a team of ecologists? Are you looking to make a step up with the support of a diverse network of ecology experts that's underpinned by a defined career pathway? We have an exciting opportunity for someone to lead our team in the East Midlands region.

About Tetra Tech

Tetra Tech is a leading provider of high-end consulting and engineering services for projects worldwide. We combine the resources of a global, multibillion dollar company with local, client-focused delivery in more than 400 locations around the world. We are Leading with Science® to provide sustainable and resilient solutions for our clients. Tetra Tech Ecology team won the CIEEM Large Consultancy of the Year Award and Large-Scale Mitigation Award in 2023.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. They help our clients succeed, our business prosper and the communities we work in thrive. We need the very best designers, project managers, engineers, surveyors, town planners, environmental specialists and business service professionals to maintain our reputation as a market leader. We do this by taking care of our people; offering fantastic flexible benefits, providing personal and professional development, and giving employees the opportunity to work on exciting and ground-breaking projects.

We don’t want Tetra Tech to be just your next role, we want it to be a step-change in your career and ultimately a move that you are proud to have made.

The Role:

As Tetra Tech builds on its demonstrable track record as one of the leading global environmental consultancies, we are seeking a talented Team Leader to join our team in the East Midlands. With ambitions to grow our UK presence to emulate the success of the global business, we are looking for an experienced ecologist to join our established network of over 95 ecologists with the energy to contribute to a diverse project portfolio.

The role will involve leading and developing the East Midlands team whilst providing support the ecology management team with business development activities across the UK in line with our ecology strategy. This will include leading on, supporting with and coordinating the technical elements of bids, tenders and framework opportunities so requiring a sound understanding of the technical aspects of ecological consultancy as well as being commercially astute will be essential. You will work closely with our Environmental Managers and Bid Support Team.

With a passion to achieve the best environmental outcomes on projects, the person in this role will be a confident and competent ecologist and we will encourage professional development in areas that align with our Ecology, Environmental or Group strategies as well as their own interests. The successful candidate will have previous experience of managing people and projects of varying scales. We will provide inhouse Project Management training and encourage you to lead on projects that align with your technical skillset. With an eye for detail and a desire to deliver to high standards, we would like you to provide support and feedback to colleagues on project deliverables as well as bids and proposals. You will also be required to work with colleagues from across the wider business on multi-disciplinary opportunities and projects so a willingness to understand how other parts of the business work would be advantageous.

The person in this role will be able to draw on their professional network to add value to bids, business development and projects. It would be advantageous if you enjoyed developing relationships with clients and colleagues and demonstrated an ability to use your network to identify opportunities that would be of benefit to the ecology team and Tetra Tech.

We pride ourselves on our ability to offer professional ecology advice across a breadth of sectors including Residential, Defence, Energy, Government Services and Transport. We can draw on the knowledge of Sector Leads and experienced technical consultants from across Tetra Tech, as well as the support of our wider ecology team, to develop the best solutions.

Given the variety of projects we work on, we are looking for an Ecologist who has experience with feeding into masterplans and who can confidently adapt their technical knowledge to specific client and project requirements, including liaison with stakeholders. With support from the regional and wider national teams, and in line with our defined career framework, you will continue to develop your expertise across many areas of ecology.

We Lead with Science® and we encourage our team to share their findings with the industry (subject to sensitivities of timings and client permissions). We also encourage research-based elements to be brought into projects and many of the projects we have worked on have resulted in publications and we encourage our team to continue to do this.

Flexible Working:

The role will require some site work and occasional travel dependent on location of projects. However, we operate fully flexible, hybrid working which allows our ecologists to choose where, how and when they work as long as our clients are receiving the high-quality service they expect. We focus on talent and skills, not postcode.

We are very happy to discuss flexible working for this role, including the possibility of reduced or compressed hours and flexible start or finish times. We can offer a range of solutions to help you get the most out of your work / life balance. If the timing’s not quite right for you, please do still get in touch as we will always consider deferring the start date for the right candidate.

About the Team:

•Multi-award winning Ecology team; recently winning CIEEM Large Consultancy of the Year and Large Scale Mitigation project in 2023.

•Over 95 permanent ecologists across 13 offices working as one cohesive team. 

•Time away from home minimised.

•IT systems allow seamless remote and flexible working, so proximity to an office is not a barrier– we focus on talents & skills, not postcode. Our ecologists can work on the projects that interest them and deliver them to the highest standards.

•Cars or car allowances to every member of the team regardless of grade, including for personal use.

•Established TOIL system to allow time management to suit specific personal needs alongside seasonal demands.

•Career frameworks provide clarity on how to progress.

•We encourage the development of well-rounded ecologists who can talk about all stages of a project. We offer extensive internal and external training and mentoring, including from our inhouse experts along with all team face to face training.

•Class 2 Bat licence incentivisation scheme to thank ecologists who spend time and effort in achieving their licence - we know it's not easy 

•And to show our support of personal development, we award a significant financial bonus to anyone achieving Chartered Environmentalist/Ecologist status through CIEEM.

•We work closely with many other teams, including our own Planners, Archaeologists, Landscape Architects, Masterplanners and Engineers. With a culture of openness, there is always someone within the business who can provide advice and support for almost any query.

At Tetra Tech, we provide a collaborative environment that supports individual performance, innovation, and creativity. We are proud to offer competitive compensation and benefits. Learn more by visiting 

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To apply, please submit your CV and cover letter on the Careers section of our website.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Tetra Tech is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Tetra Tech positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, or parental leave.