# Senior/Principal Bat Ecologist

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Glasgow, Lanarkshire
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

WSP's Nature Services team is seeking a Senior/Principal Bat Ecologist to join their team in Scotland. As a bat specialist, you will provide technical advice, plan and oversee bat surveys, and act as a bat lead on various schemes, including onshore windfarm projects and energy infrastructure upgrades.

Responsibilities:

- Provide technical advice, planning and overseeing bat surveys across a diverse range of schemes

- Act as bat lead on schemes ranging from onshore windfarm projects to linear schemes such as hydrogen pipelines, road dualling schemes and energy infrastructure upgrades

- Oversee surveys including generic and more specialist surveys

- Prepare tenders for a range of schemes relating to the team's diverse portfolio

- Input into a range of deliverables including Ecological Impact Assessments (EcIAs), Biodiversity chapters of EIAs, Habitats Regulations Assessments (HRA) and licence applications

- Client liaison and project management

- Provide mentoring and training to the wider team

- Contribute to innovative ways of working and the national bat technical working group

Requirements:

- Hold a NatureScot bat licence (or be working towards obtaining one)

- Experience in carrying out and/or managing bat surveys across various habitat types and for various schemes

- Experience in bat call analysis, data management and interpretation of field survey data

- Experience in report writing

- Experience in development licensing applications

- Ability to work well as part of a team of Nature Services professionals

- Good working knowledge of relevant wildlife legislation pertaining to bats

## Skills

### Required
- bat survey
- bat licensing
- ecological impact assessment
- biodiversity
- habitats regulations assessments

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