Ecologist Rate: Up to £500 a day inside IR35 Contract Length – 6 Months (2-3 years work available) Location: Glasgow As the Ecologist you will be working within a Rail environment on Rail infrastructure projects. You will be working closely with site teams and supervisors to help assess each project and their ecological needs and understand if there is anything invasive in that area, then providing advice and suggestions on how to deal with each situation. Your duties will include; · Assessing outputs of environmental assessments and reviewing the data from the environmental assessments. · Ecologist site visits to ascertain the situation and understand what is needed, this may include trough routes and under Rail furniture. · Assessing whether a licence is required, and then specifically which licence is required. · Applying for licences from Nature Scotland (formerly Scottish Natural Heritage) You may be expected to provide advice on: - · Great Crested Newts · Bats As this is a Rail environment it is imperative that this person holds a PTS, or as a minimum has the capacity to go through their PTS. The right person will have extensive experience working with / dealing with Nature Scotland (formerly Scottish Natural Heritage) and be extremely familiar with the application process for licences. Employer Profile: My client is a main contractor dealing nationwide across several divisions in the heavy civil engineering sector. With projects varying in size up to 50million across the UK this company is constantly growing and expanding in both complex projects and levels of expertise needed to deliver. If you are interested in applying for this role, please forward your CV to Natasha.Higgins@ganymedesolutions.co.uk or call 07814890976 for more information. Ganymede Solutions specialises in Manufacturing, Infrastructure, Civil, Transportation and general Engineering recruitment on both a permanent and contract basis – for more opportunities like this one, visit our website. By applying you accept the terms of our Privacy Notice which can be found on our website.