Principal Ecologist

Overview

As a Principal Ecologist in our Nature team, you will lead and shape ecological consultancy work for a range of projects across power, renewables, infrastructure, environment, and transport. You’ll coordinate project delivery, budgets, and resources while mentoring colleagues and developing technical capabilities. You’ll produce ecology chapters for environmental statements and licences, ensuring high-quality outputs. This role offers hybrid working, collaboration with cross-disciplinary experts, and opportunities to influence large-scale environmental decisions and sustainable growth.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible hybrid working model
• career development opportunities
• AECOM University
• volunteering days
• work-life balance initiatives
• compensation and wellbeing programs

Responsibilities

• Lead and support delivery of ecological consultancy and advisory services for internal and external clients
• Oversee project plan, schedule, resources and budgets to meet programme and budget targets
• Develop technically robust solutions to complex ecological issues
• Lead or contribute to ecology chapters for environmental statements and protected species licences
• Author or technically review project deliverables to ensure quality
• Support ongoing development of technical capabilities

Key requirements

• Degree in Ecology or related field
• Professional membership with Chartered Ecologist or Chartered Environmentalist status or working towards/licence holder for protected species surveys/mitigation
• Experience leading ecological surveys/licensing/impact assessment with professional experience
• Experience in bid/work-winning, project management, budgets, and stakeholder discussions
• Experience reviewing technical work and supporting team members
• Stakeholder engagement
• Leadership and mentoring
• Problem solving
• Ecological surveys/licensing/impact assessment
• Environmental statements and licence applications
• Technical writing and project deliverable quality control

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