Senior Site Ecologist

Balfour Beatty plc; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working up to 40% remote

25 days leave

Family friendly policies

Pension

Share incentive plan

Volunteering leave

Recognition schemes

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is hiring a Senior Site Ecologist for our Highways team on Northern projects. The role focuses on leading ecological delivery, developing management plans, and ensuring compliance across construction sites. Strong stakeholder engagement with regulators and clients is essential.

This position requires a degree in Ecology (or related) with licences and membership as desirable assets, plus willingness to travel and operate within UK environmental standards.

Qualifications

• Excellent knowledge of ecological management and mitigation.
• Excellent understanding of ecological legislation for development.
• Good level of commercial awareness.
• Full driving licence and flexibility to travel.
• Good understanding of environmental management for construction sites.
• Good understanding of the utilities/construction/engineering operating environment.
• Literate in MS Office – Word, Excel, Outlook.
• Excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead on delivery of project ecological requirements.
• Develop and implement ecological management plans.
• Build and maintain relationships with regulators, clients and design teams, and internal teams.
• Ensure site compliance with ecological legislation and coach construction teams in applying controls and mitigations in pragmatic, cost-effective ways.
• Ensure the company environmental management system is maintained in line with changing standards and legislation and liaise with senior team lead on changes required.
• Lead investigations and report on ecological incidents.

Skills

Ecological management

Ecological legislation

Commercial awareness

Driving licence

MS Office

Communication skills

Education

Ecology degree

Masters in Ecology

Protected species licence

CIEEM membership

Job description

About the role

Amazing infrastructure isn’t the only thing that gets built here. Incredible careers do too. Join our Highways team as a Senior Site Ecologist on our Northern projects and you can build something to be proud of.

What you'll be doing

Reporting to the Balfour Beatty Head of Sustainability: Natural Environment and project leads, the Senior Site Ecologist will perform the following key activities:

• Lead on delivery of project ecological requirements.
• Develop and implement ecological management plans.
• Build and maintain relationships with regulators, clients and design teams, and internal teams.
• Ensure site compliance with ecological legislation and coach construction teams in applying controls and mitigations in pragmatic, cost-effective ways.
• Ensure the company environmental management system is maintained in line with changing standards and legislation and liaise with senior team lead on changes required.
• Lead investigations and report on ecological incidents.

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 driver’s licence and flexibility to travel
• Good understanding of environmental management for construction sites
• Good understanding of the utilities/construction/engineering operating environment
• Literate in MS Office – Word, Excel, Outlook
• Excellent communication skills

The following qualities/experience are desirable:

• Educated to degree or Masters level in Ecology or related subject
• At least one protected species survey licence and/ or preferably experienced in badger mitigation
• Experience of working on large scale infrastructure construction projects
• Full CIEEM Membership

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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 Highways business delivers major schemes including motorway upgrade programmes, complex national infrastructure projects and regional investment programme works for National Highways. We have a strong orderbook and a positive pipeline of opportunities, we put the road user, at the heart of everything we do. We work safely, reduce carbon emissions and added social value to the communities within which we work.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long‑term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at [e-mail]