Ecological Specialist

Ecological Specialist
Full Time
Permanent
Salary – up to £40,608 depending on experience 
Location – Durham / Hybrid

About the role

We are expanding our Ecological Services team and looking for an Ecological Specialist to
provide ecological advice and support for capital projects and business requests within
Northumbrian Water. The role will ensure NWG are minimising the environmental impact of our
investment opportunities and maximising our opportunities for improving biodiversity.

Working as part of team, you will be responsible for undertaking environmental screening for
our investment programme, to ensure that environmental impacts are minimised, all relevant
legislation met, and biodiversity enhanced. We would be looking for you to work with project
managers to develop options to meet Biodiversity Net Gain requirements, including maintenance
and surveys.

This role will be responsible facilitating and co-ordinating ecological works, including
applications for protected species licences. You will also be required to provide ecological
advice and services both within the team, and across the wider business.

About you

You will bring your best, authentic self into our working environment in line with our One Team
ethos, and your personal values will align with our organisational core values.

You will have proven experience in screening projects to assess their environmental impact and
hold a good awareness and understanding of environmental legislation and policies. You will
have proven experience in an environmental or ecological role.

Ideally you will have experience of collaborative working across a range of stakeholders and
hold knowledge of archaeological legislation and process. You should also have a proven ability
to write clear proposals and reports.

We’re committed to exploring flexible working options, if you have questions about this please
get in touch. 

This role has also been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of
a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test. 

Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will
be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will
be prior to or within four weeks of their start date. 

Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre-employment urine drug screen will
have their sample analysed by the Company appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a
pre-employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked.

Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity,
Inclusion and Equity which means bringing your full self to work. We encourage and welcome all
applications, as we believe and strive to be an equal opportunity employer committed in having
a diverse community represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation. We have our
colleague network groups, including Rainbow Support Network (LGBT+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity,
and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity)
networks too.