Senior Environment Specialist

National Highways Limited; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

National Highways Limited seeks a Senior Ecologist or Landscape/Arboriculturalist to manage critical environmental assets along the UK's road network. You will lead inspections, provide technical guidance, and collaborate on programs to enhance habitats, ensuring compliance with environmental regulations. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence sustainable practices within a leading organization committed to safety and environmental stewardship.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing protected species, tree protection or woodland management.
• Strong knowledge of environmental regulation and standards applicable to highways.

Responsibilities

• Lead inspections and surveys of environmental assets per statutory requirements.
• Coordinate the identification of environmental asset needs and develop enhancement schemes.
• Provide technical input into early design solutions and collaborate on program plans.

Skills

Habitat management

Asset condition assessment

Environmental regulation knowledge

Decision making under risk

Education

Degree or equivalent qualification in relevant discipline

Job description

About the job.

At National Highways we are very proud of the diverse habitats and associated species within our soft estates. Our linear habitats along the road network help integrate the Strategic Road Network into the landscape and provide invaluable habitat corridors for a range of protected species. At National Highways, as the custodian of these important habitats, we are passionate about the management of these areas and we are looking for Senior Ecologists or Landscape / Arboriculturalists who will work within our Environment Teams to help to support the safe running of our road networks while maintaining these assets.

Please note that you will be required to drive as part of your role, and you will need to have no more than 3 points to be considered for this position and during employment.

• Lead and coordinateinspections and surveys of the environment assets, in line with the defined inspections regime and statutory requirements.
• Lead and coordinate the identification and evaluation of environmental asset needs to assist with the development of environmental renewal and enhancement schemes and maintenance activities
• Give technical advice and input into the development of early design solutions for enhancement and/or renewals, taking into account new techniques, materials, feasibility, and costs.
• Collaborate with engineering colleagues and Route Managers to ensure forward programme plans reflect asset needs and priorities, environmental legislation, business priorities and strategies.
• Manage internal programme of environmental activities.
• Contribute to the development of process and procedures directly related to environmental assets.

About you.

• Degree or equivalent qualification in relevant discipline or equivalent experience
• Significant experience of habitat management e.g. managing protected species, tree protection, or woodland management
• Strong knowledge of asset condition assessment e.g. Landscape and ecology condition assessment
• Strong knowledge of aspects and impacts for varying environmental receptors.
• Strong knowledge of environmental regulation and standards, and their application on the highways network
• Experience of environmental asset management decision making, with consideration of risk, budgets, safety, sustainability, and cost benefit.

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England’s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads.

We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds