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Consultant or Senior Aquatic Ecologist

Location: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness or Aberdeen

Salary: £37,000 - £48,000

Hours: 35 hours per week

Are you looking for a flexible and supportive Senior Aquatic Ecologist opportunity within a people-focused and innovative consultancy with a long-standing history of providing excellence to the Energy Development sector and beyond?

If the answer to that is yes, then this is the role and company for you!

Company

CleanTech Talent are acting as an employment agency for our client, who is one of the most valued consultancies in Scotland, spanning multiple offices and offering cross-team projects, project management development, and established yet continuously developing business processes.

You will receive guidance and technical support with specific training and mentoring in your chosen field combined with work ownership and a generous salary and benefits package.

Investment in you and your success. They support their people to innovate, collaborate, and achieve their next career steps.

Become part of our highly respected team and you'll be working alongside technical experts in a range of environmental disciplines who take pride in the quality of service that they offer at every stage of the project lifecycle.

Role: Consultant or Senior Aquatic Ecologist

Join a long-established team who currently undertake a range of freshwater ecology surveys. You will be involved in planning and overseeing the delivery of a range of projects in accordance with current legislation and best practice guidance.

You will provide high-quality, objective freshwater ecology advice and practical land management to clients.

Manage projects effectively, meet deadlines and budgets for projects within fish passes, development, river and habitat restoration, energy & infrastructure projects.

Also support the general workload of the wider ecology team, where appropriate.

Occasional out of hours work with the associated surveys and working away from home for short periods depending on the survey location.

A generous TOIL policy is in operation!

Key Responsibilities

• Lead on the design and execution of freshwater ecology surveys
• Lead fieldwork for yourself and others, as well as the management of resources required
• Data analysis, management, and production of outputs as required
• Ecological Clerk of Works (ECoW) management for jobs to deliver onsite freshwater ecology/ecological auditing
• Project Management with responsibility for maintaining key performance indicators
• Advise on survey requirements, mitigation, enhancement, and management to internal and external clients with support from the senior team
• Pursue quotes and discounts from suppliers
• Project forecasting for invoicing and resourcing
• Produce, and oversee the production of, technical reports and other bespoke documents
• Provide specific support relative to your own discipline to the other teams

• Experienced in undertaking fish habitat assessments
• You will hold a relevant degree in ecology, environmental science, or related discipline
• Full or Associate Member of CIEEM or another relevant organisation
• A full, clean, UK driving licence
• Team Lead electrofishing qualification
• Experience in planning, coordinating, and leading freshwater projects
• Report writing, data management, and data analysis
• Commercial awareness from experience in consultancy
• Work well in a team within a fast-paced environment

Desirable Experience

• Freshwater pearl mussel licence holder
• Experience in surveying for additional freshwater species including otter, water vole, and beaver
• Experience of freshwater macro-invertebrate sampling
• Mapping skills

What's in it for you

• Salary up to £48,000 depending on experience
• 35 hours working week
• Annual salary reviews
• Support from a consultancy with over 20 years operating in the market
• Investment in your training and success
• Full project lifecycle work across a range of environmental disciplines
• Hybrid working: 3 days in the office or onsite and 2 remote
• Established benefits of working with a dynamic and growing organisation
• 20 days annual leave plus 11 bank holidays, of which a proportion can be used flexibly and not on set bank holiday days
• Training allowance annually bespoke to you and your development needs, internal and external resources
• One Professional subscription paid for each year
• Company Pension contribution: 8%
• Flexible weekly working hours promoting work-life balance: 35 hours p/w
• Full time / Part time considered
• Volunteer days for community projects
• Nominated charity events
• Group income protection
• Cycle to work: great rates on new bikes
• Year-round Health & Wellbeing Employee Assistance Program and Occupational Health, GP Service

What's next?

If you're interested in applying or would at least like to know a bit more, then please apply or contact Jim Merryfield at CleanTech Talent for a confidential call on 07745 858660.