Senior Ecologist - Manchester, United Kingdom - Kier Group

Kier Group

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Manchester, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

We're looking for a Senior Ecologist to join our Transportation team based in Penrith or Salford.

Within this role, you can enjoy competitive annual holiday entitlement with opportunities to buy/sell leave, a fantastic matched pension scheme, a share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our Sharesave and Share Incentive Plans and even more.

Can you imagine a world without transportation links via land, sea, or air? Nor can we Your journey is our journey, come and join us at Kier Transportation and make a difference.

Supporting the movement of people, goods, and equipment.

Location:
Salford or Penrith with remote/hybrid working available

Contract:
Permanent, Fulltime (part-time working available, just let us know)

Salary:
Up to £45k
+ 26 days of annual leave + Benefits

Responsibilities
As a Senior Ecologist, you'll support the Senior Environmental Manager on ecological issues relating to Kier Highways schemes.

Your day to day will include:

Advising clients including National Highways and Kier Highways colleagues on ecological matters
Liaising with designers and contractors regarding ecological elements of schemes.
Project management of ecological schemes and production of reports where appropriate

Who are we looking for?
This role of Senior Ecologist is great for you if you have:

Relevant degree and experience of ecology in the highways/construction industry and experience of working with protected species
Holding protected species licenses such as GCN, bat, dormouse, white clawed crayfish license
Membership or working towards membership of a professional body i.e. CIEEM

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

A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family
Kier's Green Car Scheme

And so much more You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website:

Who is Kier?

As a leading UK infrastructure services, construction and property group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We take pride in bringing specialist knowledge, sector leading experience and fresh thinking to all that we do.

We are collaborative, trusted and focussed and we will empower you to achieve your career goals, and listen to your thoughts, ideas and challenges.

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.

You can see more about our D&I action plan here:

Closing date: 15 September 2023