Ecological Clerk of Works - Gloucester, United Kingdom - Kier Group
Description
We're looking for an Ecological Clerk of Works (ECoW) to join our Highways team based in Gloucester. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a high-profile landscape-led major highways project in Gloucestershire. This role will be site-based and responsible for overseeing the delivery of ecological mitigation, site clearance and habitat creation. You will supervise contractors ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, planning conditions and associated documents (e.g. Construction Environment Management Plan, species licences, mitigation strategies and method statements).Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual leave with the option to buy/sell, one professional subscription funded to support your professional development and even more.
Location:
Gloucester - site based
Contract:
Permanent - Fulltime
Salary:
up to £35k
Responsibilities
As an Ecological Clerk of Works, you'll provide single point of contact for ecological matters onsite and be responsible for overseeing the management of construction risks associated with ecology and provide continuous improvement of environmental processes, procedures and related forms
Your day to day will include:
- Provide onsite support to licenced ecologists as required
- Supervise contractors to ensure compliance with CEMP, SSSI assent, protected species licences and agreed methodologies.
- Produce and deliver inductions, toolbox talks and communicate to contractors.
- Carry out preconstruction checks and regular site inspections.
- Provide regular updates to stakeholders and the project team.
Who are we looking for?
This role of Ecological Clerk of Works is great for you if have:
- Ecological related degree or equivalent
- Member of CIEEM or equivalent
- Previous Ecological Clerk of Works (ECoW) experience including working with contractors and ensuring compliance with protected species licence requirements and environmental protection measures.
- Experience conducting protected species surveys including badgers, nesting birds, great crested newts and reptiles
Benefits at Kier
We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs.
Some of our favourites include:
- new and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
- pension - you will be able to join the Kier Retirement Savings Plan (KRSP)
- life assurance
- access to discounted shopping including restaurants, insurance companies, and supermarkets
- 24/7 digital GP service for you and your family
Who is Kier?
At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.
We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.
Diversity and inclusion
Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more.
Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.
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