Senior Ecologist - Penguin Recruitment Ltd : Job Details

Job title: Senior Ecologist

Salary: £32,000 - £40,000

Location: Manchester

Penguin Recruitment are working with one of the UK's leading independent infrastructure and property consultancies, specialising in environment, planning and sustainability. The award-winning company is looking for a Senior Ecologist to join their Manchester office. As a growing medium-sized business, they are searching for self-motivated and positive-minded Ecologists. This position could provide a great opportunity to lead and deliver complex contracts and support more junior staff, draft high-quality reports and review technical work, as well as support clients and their design teams by identifying solutions to their problems.

The Senior Ecologist position offers:

• £32,000 - £40,000 per annum dependent on experience
• TOIL (time off in lieu) policy and flexible approach to working hours
• 26 days holiday per year increasing to 29 within 3 years
• Ability to purchase additional leave
• Pension scheme including employer pension contribution of 4%
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• 1 paid volunteering day per year
• Flexible and agile working culture

As a Senior Ecologist, your main duties will be:

• Leading complex projects including surveying technical sites
• Reviewing reports
• Project management
• Mentoring junior staff
• Providing direct consultancy to clients, giving best advice and practice

To be considered for the Senior Ecologist position, you will need:

• A relevant degree qualification.
• Proven experience in ecological consultancy or related work.
• Excellent fieldwork skills with experience of a range of fauna and flora survey methods.
• Excellent knowledge of relevant UK and European environmental legislation.
• Hold membership of CIEEM
• Hold a species licence in one or more of the following species groups: bats, badgers, birds, dormice, great crested newts, reptiles, and water voles.
• Full clean UK driving licence

If you are interested in this or other ecology roles? Please contact Lloyd Key via or call . We have many more vacancies available on our website.

Please refer to www.penguinrecruitment.co.uk.

This is a permanent role.

Penguin Recruitment is operating as a Recruitment Agency in respect to this position.