Senior Ecologist

Job title: Senior Ecologist
Salary: £32,000 – £40,000
Location: Norwich
Penguin Recruitment are working with one of the UK’s leading independent infrastructure and property consultancies, specialising in environment, planning and sustainability. The award-winning company is looking for a Senior Ecologist to join their Norwich office. As a growing medium-sized business, they are searching for self-motivated and positive-minded Ecologists. This position could provide a great opportunity to lead and deliver complex contracts and support more junior staff, draft high-quality reports and review technical work, as well as support clients and their design teams by identifying solutions to their problems.
The Senior Ecologist position offers:
£32,000 – £40,000 per annum dependent on experience
TOIL (time off in lieu) policy and flexible approach to working hours
26 days holiday per year increasing to 29 within 3 years
Ability to purchase additional leave
Pension scheme including employer pension contribution of 4%
Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay
Cycle to Work scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
1 paid volunteering day per year
Flexible and agile working culture
As a Senior Ecologist, your main duties will be:
Leading complex projects including surveying technical sites
Reviewing reports
Project management
Mentoring junior staff
Providing direct consultancy to clients, giving best advice and practice
To be considered for the Senior Ecologist position, you will need:
A relevant degree qualification.
Proven experience in ecological consultancy or related work.
Excellent fieldwork skills with experience of a range of fauna and flora survey methods.
Excellent knowledge of relevant UK and European environmental legislation.
Hold membership of CIEEM
Hold a species licence in one or more of the following species groups: bats, badgers, birds, dormice, great crested newts, reptiles, and water voles.
Full clean UK driving licence
If you are interested in this or other ecology roles? Please contact Lloyd Key via ##### or call 01792957382. We have many more vacancies available on our website.
Please refer to www.penguinrecruitment.co.uk.
This is a permanent role.
Penguin Recruitment is operating as a Recruitment Agency in respect to this position.
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