# Principal Ecologist

**Company**: AECOM
**Location**: Birmingham
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Join AECOM's dynamic Nature team as a Principal Ecologist in Birmingham, with opportunities to work across multiple offices. As a Principal Ecologist, you will lead and support delivery of high-quality ecological consultancy and advisory services to internal and external clients.

Responsibilities include:

- Leading and supporting delivery of ecological projects

- Overseeing plan, schedule and organisation of ecological project work

- Supporting development of technically robust and pragmatic solutions to complex ecological issues

- Producing ecology chapters for environmental statements and protected species licence applications

- Authoring or technically checking project deliverables

Requirements:

- Degree in ecology or an associated subject

- Membership of a professional institution and working towards or obtained Chartered Ecologist or Chartered Environmentalist status

- Experience of leading and managing ecological surveys, licensing and impact assessment

- Experience in work-winning, managing projects, project budgets and leading stakeholder discussions

Benefits include:

- Career development opportunities

- Flexible hybrid working model

- Technical practice networks

- AECOM University

- Volunteering days

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## Skills

### Required
- ecology
- environmental impact assessment
- protected species survey
- mitigation licences
- project management

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