Field Ecologist (Keystone Environmental)

Origin Environmental; Tetbury; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An environmental consultancy in the United Kingdom seeks a Field Ecologist to manage projects, conduct ecological surveys, and write technical reports. Key qualifications include project management experience and an understanding of UK legislation. The role offers competitive salary, hybrid working option, and a supportive team atmosphere in an idyllic Cotswolds location.

Benefits

Competitive salary pending experience

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Company vehicles for meetings and site attendances

Quarterly staff appreciation events

Private medical insurance

Continued growth and career progression

Qualifications

• Experience of Surveying.
• Ability to identify risks and opportunities.
• Capable of technical writing (e.g. ES ecology chapters).

Responsibilities

• Project management.
• Technical report writing.
• Assist with client liaison, quotes, and budget management.
• Conduct ecological surveys.

Skills

Project management experience

Technical report writing experience

Ability to balance and manage priorities

Excellent working knowledge of UK and European legislation

Fee proposal capabilities

Job description

We are seeking Field Ecologists to join our Ecology Team.

This position is based at our head office location just outside Tetbury in the heart of the Gloucestershire Cotswolds.

Your primary responsibilities would be:

• Project management
• Technical report writing
• Assisting with client liaison, quotes, and budget management
• Resource and workload planning
• Ecological surveys
• Supporting and contributing to the Ecology Team’s vision and objections

The successful applicant will also have the unique opportunity to work alongside our in-house habitats team, who work directly with our ecology team, to develop and deliver bespoke mitigation and enhancement schemes that provide genuine and lasting benefit for wildlife.

Core requirements:

• Project management experience
• Technical report writing experience
• Ability to identify risks and opportunities, avoiding/minimising the former and capitalising on the latter
• Experience of Surveying
• An excellent working knowledge of UK and European legislation and the planning system
• Ability to balance and manage priorities, and maintain good working relationships with clients and colleagues whilst working under pressure
• Fee proposal capabilities

Additional beneficial experience:

• An area of specialism (aquatic, botany, ornithology, invertebrates and bats of particular interest)
• Holder of one or more survey and/or development licences
• Sound experience of using the BNG metric
• Experience of design and implementation of practical, innovative, and achievable mitigation strategies for protected species
• Capable of technical writing (e.g. ES ecology chapters)

What Sets us Apart and What Does the Future Hold for Keystone

The business has been successfully running for 20 years, adapting to change, and maintaining growth turnover and commercial stability. It operates across all industry sectors on projects at all scales including some of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects. In addition, the company takes on specialist conservation driven projects and is rapidly expanding its BNG services, which builds on an enviable track record of success in habitat creation, restoration, and mitigation from both a design and practical implementation perspective. The projects are delivered nationally from the head office in Gloucestershire.

Keystone differs from other consultancies in that it includes an in-house Habitats contracting team, which means the ecologists truly benefit from the practical knowledge of what mitigation, habitat creation, restoration and management schemes work, and ecologists can see the fruits of their labour translate into reality on the ground.

The team has a professional family feel and strives to ensure that fun is part of working life whilst ensuring the outstanding company reputation for excellence in all fields is maintained. Quarterly staff appreciation days are routinely held.

What We Provide

• Competitive salary pending experience
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Option for hybrid working
• Company vehicles for meetings and site attendances
• Quarterly staff appreciation events
• Community incentives and volunteering opportunities
• Continued growth and career progression including annual CPD & training budget
• Company pension and sick pay
• Private medical insurance
• Access to internal Mental First Aid Qualified staff
• Idyllic office location in the Cotswolds with on-site parking