Overview
We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our Environmental and Sustainability team as a Senior Ecologist. This role is based on site in Birmingham (Erdington). Our head office is located in a convenient location accessible via the M6 and M42, and by rail; we also offer a shuttle bus from Birmingham city centre.
Responsibilities
We have ecological mitigation to implement and continue to enable construction, which will include species and habitats monitoring to drive adaptive management of ecological mitigation sites and features to ensure continued Favourable Conservation Status and the best outcomes for nature.
Qualifications
* Strong project management experience and good organisational skills.
* Excellent knowledge and experience of ecological management and mitigation for major infrastructure projects.
* Educated to degree or Masters level in Ecological related subject.
* Excellent understanding of ecological legislation for development.
* Full UK driver’s licence and flexibility to travel.
* Protected species licence holder.
* Good understanding of environmental management for construction sites.
* Literate in MS Office – Word, Excel, Outlook & GIS.
* Excellent experience of ECOW working on large scale infrastructure construction/highways projects.
* Experienced with communicating with Natural England on projects species licences.
Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.
Benefits
* Flexible working available for some roles
* Travel allowance for eligible candidates
* Family friendly leave policies
* Health risk assessments
* Access to employee assistance programmes
* Access to annual flu vaccinations
About Balfour Beatty VINCI
Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, BBV’s role is to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 has BBV awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.
Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:
* 9.3km of viaducts
* 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels
* 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses
Diversity and Inclusion
BBV is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neurodiversities. We are working to represent the communities BBV works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.
We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.
Details
* Seniority level: Not Applicable
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Research, Analyst, and Information Technology
* Industries: Civil Engineering
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