Principal Consultant – Environmental and Ecological Assessment

Overview

Principal Consultant – Environmental and Ecological Assessment

Location:

London or Bristol UK - Hybrid

Role ‑3102

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo, a 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.

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.

• Lead the delivery of ecology surveys, impact assessment
• Business development and proposal writing
• Understating of EIA, HRA and BNG as well as ecology

• Ecology degree or equivalent experience
• Demonstrable experience as technical lead on a range of projects
• Hold at least 1 UK protected species licence 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

• CIEEM Full member (or working towards), or equivalent
• Building client relationships
• Collaborating with multi‑disciplinary teams
• Understanding of EIA, HRA and SEA

• 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 challengingee