Principal Consultant – Environmental and Ecological Assessment at Ricardo Singapore

Bristol, England, United Kingdom -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

09 May, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

08 Feb, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Ecology, Impact Assessment, EIA, HRA, BNG, UK Protected Species Licences, Mitigation Licences, UK Habitat Survey, Habitat Condition Assessments, Defra Biodiversity Metric, Biodiversity Net Gain Plans, GIS Skills, Business Development, Proposal Writing, Client Relationships, Team Collaboration

Industry

Environmental Services

Description

Overview Role: Principal Consultant – Environmental and Ecological Assessment Location: London or Bristol UK - Hybrid Role ID: 2025-3102 Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world. Ricardo, member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world. The Role We are looking for an Ecology Consultant at Principal Consultant grade to join our team. You will join colleagues in providing technical support on a variety of ecology projects, across a wide range of clients in the water, developer, infrastructure and public sectors. Key Responsibilities Lead the delivery of ecology surveys, impact assessment Business development and proposal writing Understating of EIA, HRA and BNG as well as ecology Key competencies and experience Ecology degree or equivalent experience Demonstrable experience as technical lead on a range of projects Hold at least 1 UK protected species licences and held mitigation licences as lead ecologist Strong working knowledge and experience of UK Habitat survey, habitat condition assessments, Defra Biodiversity Metric and Biodiversity Net Gain plans Full UK driving licence GIS skills Managing resourcing for the team Desirable experience CIEEM Full member (or working towards), or equivalent Building client relationships Collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams. Understanding of EIA, HRA and SEA Skills and behaviours A self-starter, as you’ll be part of a small and very busy team. Excellent team working skills are therefore essential together with strong communication skills, sound understanding of and a close attention to detail. This is a fast-paced and challenging environment offering you the opportunity to make your mark. You will have support from the wider business for your career to develop into a wide range of future opportunities within Ricardo Energy & Environment. Working here You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place. We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable. Work life balance We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Benefits We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health. Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle. Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer. Next steps Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date. Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process. #LI-EB1 #LI-Hybrid

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Responsibilities

The Principal Consultant will lead the delivery of ecology surveys and impact assessments while also engaging in business development and proposal writing. They will provide technical support on various ecology projects across multiple sectors.