Senior Ecologist

Overview

As a Senior Ecologist in AECOM’s Nature team, you’ll help shape environmental outcomes across UK projects in energy, transport, and water. You will lead ecological planning, bid support, and technical delivery, partnering with multidisciplinary teams to develop robust solutions. You’ll contribute to environmental statements, licensing, and expert checks, helping clients meet regulatory and sustainability goals. This role offers hybrid work, collaboration with national experts, and opportunities to influence high-impact infrastructure and nature-positive projects.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible hybrid working
• career development opportunities
• AECOM University
• volunteering days
• well-being programs

Responsibilities

• Support preparation of high-quality bids and tenders for ecological services
• Plan, schedule and manage all phases of ecological work within budget and programmes
• Deliver ecological consultancy services and participate in check/review processes
• Develop robust, pragmatic solutions to complex ecological issues
• Communicate effectively with ecology team, project teams, and clients
• Contribute to ecology chapters for environmental statements and licence applications
• Author or review project deliverables to ensure high quality outputs

Key requirements

• Experience planning and delivering ecological services on projects in the UK or Ireland
• Strong understanding of wildlife conservation
• Membership of a professional institution and working towards Chartership (e.g., CIEEM)
• Excellent field skills in at least one specialist area including protected species licences
• Proactive Health and Safety approach
• Mentoring and supporting ecology team members

• Effective communication
• Mentoring and coaching
• Collaborative mindset
• Ecological project planning and delivery
• Environmental statements and licensing knowledge
• Habitat assessment and impact mitigation

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