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    Senior Ecologist - United Kingdom - Natural HR Limited

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    Are you looking to progress your career by working on Britain's biggest construction project?

    Balfour Beatty VINCI is working with a range of organisations to design and build 90km West Midlands stretch of HS2 - Britain's new high speed railway. Our work is essential to enable HS2 trains to travel between London and Birmingham as well as continue their journey up to Manchester. It's an incredibly exciting time to join us - we're at peak construction with work really ramping up on a broad range of assets including bridges, tunnels and viaducts. Plus you'd join 9,000 people across 72 nationalities working on this exciting section of HS2 across the region.

    We currently have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Senior / Principal Ecologist within the environment function. This role will be based across multiple sites, Lichfield / Tamworth / Birmingham / Kenilworth.

    HS2's Green Corridor will run alongside the railway, creating a network of bigger, better-connected, climate resilient habitats and new green spaces for people to enjoy.

    BBV, on behalf of HS2, have already started planting new woodlands and creating new ponds, grasslands and meadows, but the most challenging and exciting times are yet to come. Over the coming years, BBV will continue to create more habitats to sustain healthy populations of UK flora and fauna, providing a network of bigger, better-connected, climate resilient habitats and new green spaces for wildlife and people to enjoy.

    Experience required


    • Strong project management experience and good organisational skills


    • Excellent knowledge and experience of ecological management and mitigation for major infrastructure projects


    • Educated to degree or Masters level in Ecological related subject


    • Excellent understanding of ecological legalisation for development and HS2
    • Full UK driver's licence and flexibility to travel


    • Protected species licence holder; desirable to be a mitigation licence holder


    • Good understanding of environmental management for construction sites


    • Excellent understanding of the utilities/construction/engineering operating environment


    • Good interpersonal skills and experience of overseeing junior personnel


    • Excellent communication skills and a solution-driven attitude when hosting and contributing to meetings


    • Excellent experience of ECOW working on large scale infrastructure construction/highways projects


    •Experienced with communicating with Natural England on projects species licences
    • Skills in working collaboratively to obtain the best outcome for the project


    • Determination to see tasks through to completion with excellent planning

    Please note candidates will need to have a current valid right to work in the UK to be considered for this role.

    Benefits of working with us


    • Flexible working available for some roles


    • Travel allowance for eligible candidates


    • Family friendly leave policies


    • Health risk assessments


    • Access to employee assistance programmes


    • Access to annual flu vaccinations

    About Balfour Beatty VINCI

    Balfour Beatty VINCI is a long-established joint venture between two powerhouses for the delivery of critical infrastructure across rail, transport and other iconic projects in the UK and beyond. We started working together over 30 years ago to deliver the Channel Tunnel, as members of the TransManche Link consortium. In the Midlands, it is Balfour Beatty VINCI's role to design and build the route, ready for tracks and signalling to be installed. Our work with HS2 Balfour Beatty VINCI have been awarded a 90km section of the HS2 project from Long Itchington in Warwickshire to the centre of Birmingham and then on to Handsacre in Staffordshire.

    Overall, we will be building the following across all our sites:


    • 9.3km of viaducts


    • 2 twin bore tunnels and 2 cut and cover tunnels


    • 28 underbridges and 11 underpasses

    Diversity and Inclusion

    Balfour Beatty VINCI (BBV) is delivering equal opportunities for everyone that is part of the team and for people that are yet to join us. We are an inclusive employer and welcome people from all backgrounds to come and join our team, including people with different physical abilities and neuro diversities. We are working to represent the communities Balfour Beatty VINCI works in through our workforce. We have embedded Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity (ED&I) Champions across our sites and are guided by strong accreditations that ensure we demonstrate our ability to support our people effectively. We care about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse set of backgrounds and experiences. BBV is a Disability Confident Leader and we welcome applications from candidates with a disability.

    We recognise and respect that people work in different ways and we are open to discussing what flexibility you may need during the recruitment process, balanced against our project requirements.

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