About the job
Are you eager to make a significant impact on the environment? Join our talented Nature team as a Principal Ecologist in Manchester, with opportunities to work in other cities including Newcastle, Cambridge, Liverpool, Basingstoke, Croydon, Leeds, Nottingham, Birmingham, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. Embrace our flexible hybrid working model, which allows you to balance your professional and personal life. At AECOM, we lead the way in innovation, offering an impressive portfolio of Ecology programs and projects in collaboration with key clients.
Currently, we are engaged in a variety of exciting projects across the power and renewables, infrastructure, environment, and transport sectors. Our work often involves collaboration with other technical disciplines such as landscape architecture, GIS, engineering, sustainability, and drainage. Recent projects include some of the largest solar farms granted consent in the UK, energy transition initiatives, habitat regulations assessments for local authorities, and the masterplanning of new residential developments.
Your Responsibilities:
- Lead and deliver exceptional ecological consultancy and advisory services to internal and external clients.
- Oversee the planning, scheduling, and organization of all phases of ecological project work, ensuring that resources, budgets, and controls meet both programme and budget requirements.
- Develop technically sound and pragmatic solutions to complex ecological challenges.
- Contribute to the production of ecology chapters for environmental statements and protected species licence applications.
- Review and ensure the quality of project deliverables.
- Foster the ongoing development of our technical capabilities.
Join Us in Shaping the Future.
Become a part of our dynamic Nature business, which includes approximately 230 professionals specializing in arboriculture, forestry, groundwater, surface water, and ecology. Our team features national and global leaders in species licensing, impact assessment, habitat creation, ecosystem restoration, enhancement, and management. At AECOM, you'll thrive in an inclusive and innovative environment where your contributions are valued.
Enjoy a range of core and personalized benefits tailored to support your well-being and future. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our flexible hybrid work model for a suitable work-life balance, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.