# Principal Ecologist

**Company**: AECOM
**Location**: St Albans
**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, working on a variety of projects in the power and renewables, infrastructure, environment, and transport sectors. You will lead and support delivery of high-quality ecological consultancy and advisory services, oversee project planning and organisation, and support development of technically robust solutions to complex ecological issues.

Responsibilities:

- Lead and support delivery of high-quality ecological consultancy and advisory services to internal and external clients

- Oversee plan, schedule, and organise all phases of ecological project work, ensuring necessary resources, budgets, and controls are in place

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

- Lead and support production of ecology chapters for environmental statements and protected species licence applications

- Author or technically check project deliverables to ensure high-quality outputs

- Support the continued development of technical capabilities

Qualifications:

- Degree (or equivalent) in ecology or an associated subject

- Membership of an appropriate 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

- Experience of reviewing technical work and supporting wider team members

Benefits:

- Flexible hybrid working model

- Career development opportunities

- Technical practice networks

- AECOM University

- Volunteering days

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## Skills

### Required
- ecology
- environmental impact assessment
- protected species surveying
- mitigation licences
- project management
- stakeholder engagement

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