About The Role
Our work matters to millions. It’ll matter to you too. Join our
Power T&D team as a Lead Ecologist - Glen Mor, Invergarry to Isle of Skye on the Skye Reinforcement Project LT91 and you’ll be a big part of fascinating, complex, varied and meaningful work.
In this role you will be -
- Managing the ecological deliverables of the Skye Reinforcement scheme to programme, budget and quality standard. This includes managing on-site surveys, inspections and watching briefs, guiding programme and on-site measures required from the works information, and ensuring legal requirements and company standards are met.
- Agree, advise and provide mitigation for proposed activities and ensure no breaches of legislative requirements or mitigation occur
- Interpreting contract and planning obligations, guidelines and design requirements into practical cost-effective solutions to ecological challenges facing construction teams.
- Key discipline project interface for design teams, clients, and stakeholders.
- Provide technical support for Biodiversity Net Gain initiatives.
- Line managing and mentoring other roles, such as Assistant Site Ecologist or Consultancy Site Ecologists or junior ES roles on the project.
- Managing subcontract packages and ensure licence requirements are met for the full term of project and aftercare.
- Actively helping deliver a culture of continual improvement of on-site ecological practice that is solution-orientated to support construction teams.
What you'll be doing
Reporting to the Balfour Beatty Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager, LT91 Skye Reinforcement, key discipline stakeholder Head of Sustainability: Natural Environment, Project leads, the Lead Site Ecologist will perform the following key activities:
- Lead on delivery of project ecological requirements.
- Develop and implement ecological management plans.
- Build and maintain relationships with regulators, clients and design teams, and internal teams.
- Ensure site compliance with ecological legislation and coach construction teams in applying controls and mitigations in pragmatic, cost-effective ways.
- Ensure the company environmental management system is maintained in line with changing standards and legislation and liaise with senior team lead on changes required.
- Lead investigations and report on ecological incidents.
Who we're looking for
The Following Qualities/experience Are Essential
- Excellent knowledge of ecological management and mitigation
- Excellent understanding of ecological legalisation for development in Scotland’s legislative, town planning, consents and regulatory frameworks
- Good level of commercial awareness
- Full driver’s licence and flexibility to travel
- Good understanding of environmental management for construction sites
- Good understanding of the utilities/construction/engineering operating environment
- Literate in MS Office – Word, Excel, Outlook
- Excellent communication skills
The Following Qualities/experience Are Desirable
- Educated to degree or Masters level in Ecology or related subject
- At least one protected species survey licence
- Experience of working on large scale infrastructure construction projects
- Full CIEEM Membership
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.
Why join us?
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.
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:
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