Ecologist

White & Sons is a multi-disciplinary property consultancy with six offices in Surrey. Our successful planning and rural teams are now looking to expand by appointing an Ecologist or Senior Ecologist to work alongside our existing Surveyors, Planners and Architectural staff.
Our planning and rural teams work closely with our Land & New Homes and Estate Agency teams. We have a broad existing client base, including a large number of farming clients, as well as private and public landowners and developers. We regularly advise on all aspects of planning and rural land management.
We are looking to appoint a MCIEEM qualified Ecologist with at least 3 years experience to work between our Planning and Rural teams. The successful candidate is likely to have significant experience in conducting ecological surveys, preparing reports to support planning applications and enhancements opportunities to deliver various levels of biodiversity net gain.
The Ecologist will need to be familiar with the Natural England Biodiversity Metric 4.0 and be able to identify the optimum enhancement measures for sites, such as agricultural land where there are significant biodiversity opportunities which can be used to offset the impact of developments which cannot deliver a net gain on site.
The post is likely to be based in our Horley office.
The post offers an e...