SPA Senior Ecologist
SPA Senior Ecologist
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Job Description
Role: Senior Ecologist
Location: Peterborough with flexible hybrid working options
Employment Type: Fulltime Permanent
Salary: circa 44000 depending on experience
At Anglian Water we are working to meet tomorrows challenges today by planning and delivering significant infrastructure for our region to address future challenges such as securing water supply for future generations reaching net zero adapting to climate change and protecting and enhancing our region for generations to come.
Why This Project Matters
This critical role will require the development of the ecology and biodiversity aspects of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) strategy and technical management of ecology and biodiversity delivery teams. We are looking for a highly motivated leader who has experience in setting up high performing multidisciplinary ecology teams preferably across multipartner organisations and is known as a leader in their field of expertise.
About the Role
You will be instrumental in supporting the Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) construction programme by ensuring that SPA is compliant with nature conservation legislation. You will help minimise delays and reduce cost by ensuring a strategic approach to ecology enabling works and Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG).
You will work with our subject matter experts in AW and its alliances to develop policies standards and work instructions manage relationships with regulators and investigate ecology incidents and nearmisses to provide an endtoend ecology service.
Key Responsibilities
The successful person will be accountable as an ecology and biodiversity leader with the ability to grow and lead a team to deliver ecological impact assessments BNG HRAs mitigation design protected species consents and other deliverables to support planning submissions and construction for the SPA across Anglian Waters catchment.
Develop and direct the ecology and biodiversity approach for the SPA Program for AMP7 Delivery and AMP8 Consenting and Delivery.
Discipline team development and leadership including mentoring
Manage and develop the existing project strategies ensuring best practice and consistency in approaches to survey assessment and mitigation strategies across the project.
Produce consistent highly technical highquality ecology and biodiversity ES chapters HRAs and BNG assessments
Align inputs and outputs with all other discipline leads and teams project designers and construction teams to achieve endtoend integrated delivery
Manage and develop the existing Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) strategies for SPA that align with AW BNG strategies to meet statutory and OFWAT obligations.
Tracking the implementation legislation for BNG on Major Projects through to adoption tracking changes being made during this process and keeping the Project informed of the implications of these.
Support the Project Delivery Teams by ensuring that supply chain ecologists are developing compliant pragmatic and proportional solutions and mitigation to enable the successful delivery of the SPA capital delivery programme
Support the wider SPA Team in developing and maintaining a robust supplier allocation process based on geographical location & knowledge capability and performance
Provide direct ecology support to strategic and complex parts of the programme supporting the wider team with consenting and permitting requirements
Work with Anglian Water to manage and develop the licensing strategy manage the application and ongoing management of European Protected Species licences
What Youll Need
Essential Skills & Experience:
Ideally educated to degree level in a relevant topic or have demonstrable working experience
Experience of planning the delivery and the daytoday management of a large and complex EcIA
Chartered or full accredited membership (or working towards) of an appropriate professional institute or body
Experience of leading teams on highvalue and largescale projects.
A solid understanding of Englands BNG policy (including where it applies to National Policy Statements) and legal framework including the Defra Statutory Biodiversity Metric.
Experience of applying the BNG approach to Major Project / NSIPs across the project lifecycle.
Experience of working with regulators and key stakeholders.
A track record of delivering projects to time cost quality standards across all stages of project lifecycle.
Team oriented leader with the ability to work closely with peers; delegate motivate and empower individuals and teams.
As a valued employee youll be entitled to:
Competitive pension scheme Anglian Water doublematches your contributions up to 6
Personal private health care
Annual bonus scheme
Business need cash for cars scheme
Opportunity to volunteer to do unpaid work in the community
26 days leave rising with service Bank Holidays with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
Life Cover at 8x your salary
Personal Accident cover up to 5x your salary
Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
Lots of great benefits including 20 off new EE mobile contracts discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme
Free parking at all offices site and leisure parks
Excellent family friendly policies such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay.
If youre ready to make a difference and join a team committed to excellence apply today!
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
