Lead Ecologist

28 Days Annual Go away + 8 Financial institution Holidays, Firm Automobile or Allowance, Beneficiant Pension Scheme, Life Assurance

Milestone Infrastructure Ltd is trying to recruit a Principal Ecologist. Milestone
Infrastructure is part of the Transport Division inside MGroup Companies. We presently ship
highways and road lighting upkeep contracts and a wide range of giant, complicated, civil
engineering tasks throughout southern and central England.

As a enterprise, individuals are on the coronary heart of every part we do, whether or not they’re our folks, our
shoppers, or the communities they serve. We’re dedicated to behaving with integrity and in a
sustainable method, being aware to the wants of our communities and the setting. Our
individuals are our best power and guaranteeing their well being, security and wellbeing is our high
precedence. We spend money on our workforce, participating and empowering them, serving to them to develop and
develop with alternatives to coach and be taught.

Because the Principal Ecologist, you’ll oversee and handle ecological features throughout a variety of
highways infrastructure contracts/tasks to fulfill shopper wants and obtain constructive
outcomes via pragmatic enter in any respect venture lifecycle levels. You’ll be liable for
main and growing the ecology perform inside the Environmental Technical Group, which acts
as an in-house consultancy via supply of specialist environmental and sustainability
providers each internally and externally. You’ll handle different ecologists while working
carefully with design & development groups and different exterior consultants to co-ordinate and
ship a full vary of ecological providers equivalent to habitat and species surveys, ECoW assist,
affect evaluation, licencing & mitigation, and Biodiversity Web Acquire (BNG) assessments.

Key Obligations:

• Co-ordinating and delivering a variety of workplace and site-based ecological providers,
  together with habitat/species surveys, ECoW assist, affect evaluation, licencing & mitigation,
  and BNG assessments.
• Producing correct experiences in a variety of codecs with an acceptable stage of technical
  content material for the supposed viewers and utility.
• Offering specialist ecological recommendation and coaching to contract/venture groups and shoppers
  to help them in successfully managing ecological dangers and alternatives.
• Reviewing and approving a variety of experiences and different venture deliverables to supply
  high quality assurance.
• Compiling and implementing licence purposes and different ecological consents, together with
  mitigation and monitoring methods.
• Liaising with statutory authorities and establishing constructive, trusted relationships.
• Participating and co-ordinating assist from exterior consultants as required.
• Managing different ecologists, offering acceptable route to assist their improvement and
  excessive efficiency.
• Formulating charge proposals overlaying environmental assist in addition to managing time
  allocation of self and others in accordance with agreed Job Orders and utilisation targets.
• Supporting the expansion and efficiency of the Environmental Technical Group via supply
  and enterprise improvement, while overseeing and main the strategic route of the ecology
  perform and enterprise recruitment to satisfy useful resource wants.
• Planning and programming workload for your self and others to make sure supply of providers
  inside agreed timescales to excessive requirements.

Success Measures:

• Supply of strategic goals and contractual necessities associated to
  ecology/biodiversity.
• Positively influencing contract/venture improvement via efficient administration of
  ecological dangers and alternatives on contracts/tasks, as evidenced by tangible advantages and
  constructive shopper suggestions.
• Managing workloads and time allocation to satisfy utilisation targets, develop the ecology
  perform, and maximise income technology.
• Securing industry-leading awards in relation to ecology/biodiversity initiatives.
• Growth and efficiency of crew members.

Expertise & Information Required:

• Diploma stage qualification in an environmental or associated topic (fascinating).
• A minimum of 3 years’ expertise in development / infrastructure sectors or associated industries
  (fascinating).
• Proficient in subject surveys together with UK Habitat Classification evaluation, BNG situation
  evaluation, and guarded species surveys.
• Sound data of ecological ideas, laws, coverage, and steerage.
• Confirmed monitor document of co-ordinating and delivering a variety of workplace and site-based
  ecological providers to attain constructive venture outcomes.
• Holder of survey and/or mitigation/conservation licences for protected species (fascinating).
• Consideration to element and the power to handle tasks, assets, programmes, and budgets
  successfully.
• Personable with wonderful written and verbal communication expertise and the aptitude to
  have interaction a variety of stakeholders on ecology/biodiversity issues.
• Sensible and pragmatic strategy in delivering ecological options.
• Ambition and functionality to encourage innovation and digital providers all through the
  enterprise
• Willingness to journey throughout the UK and avoid house for brief intervals when
  required.
• Capability to work in a fast-paced setting, managing competing priorities and expectations
  of contract/venture administration groups.
• Expertise of coaching, mentoring, growing, and/or managing direct experiences/different
  colleagues (fascinating).

To use, please ship your CV to [email protected].