Balfour Beatty plc
Lead Ecologist (Bid & Pre-Construction)
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About The Role
As a newly created position within a growing function, this role presents an exciting opportunity to shape the future direction of ecological management within one of the UK's fastest-growing infrastructure sectors and influence the development of ecology capability across the wider business.
What you'll be doing
- Lead ecological input into bids, tenders and pre-construction activities across the Power portfolio.
- Identify ecological risks, constraints, opportunities and programme implications during early project development.
- Develop and review ecological sections of tender submissions, technical proposals, methodologies and environmental management documentation.
- Provide ecological leadership for optioneering, routing, design development and constructability reviews.
- Identify and develop opportunities for Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) and wider nature enhancement during bid and pre-construction stages, supporting clients and project teams to incorporate practical, deliverable and value-adding environmental outcomes into project designs, programmes and delivery strategies.
- Support the development of consenting and permitting strategies, ensuring ecological requirements are identified and programmed appropriately.
- Provide specialist advice on protected species licensing, habitat management, biodiversity net gain and ecological mitigation.
- Act as the technical authority for ecology within the ES Bid & Pre-Construction team.
Who we're looking for
Essential
- Experience in Nature Conservation, Ecology, Biodiversity or closely related fields.
- Degree in Ecology, Environmental Management, Biological Sciences or a related discipline.
- Chartered Ecologist (CEcol) or working towards chartership.
- Full member of CIEEM.
- Extensive experience within ecology, environmental planning or nature conservation.
- Experience supporting major infrastructure, utilities, energy or construction projects.
- Technical understanding of UK wildlife legislation, protected species licensing and planning requirements.
- Experience developing ecological mitigation and consenting strategies.
- Experience managing specialist consultants and ecological supply chain partners.
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Desirable
- Protected Species Licence holder.
- Experience of Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs).
- Biodiversity Net Gain expertise.
- Master's degree in Ecology, Conservation or related subject.
- Experience supporting major transmission and distribution projects
Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.
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Benefits
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…
About Us
Balfour Beatty’s Power Transmission & Distribution teams work with regional, national and international electricity network owners and operators to provide technical engineering solutions across the full spectrum of the electricity grid, including overhead lines, cabling, substations and distribution networks.
From scoping and feasibility, to design, construction and on-going maintenance, our in-house experts, flexible resources and industry-leading innovations support customers in the development of some of the UK’s most ambitious power transmission and distribution projects.
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Diversity and inclusion
At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion
To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com
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