Habitat Buildability Specialist

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At Environment Bank, we’re working together to help restore natural habitats across England. With thousands of acres of new habitat creation already underway, our projects are delivering biodiversity gains and helping vital ecosystems to recover and flourish.

Our diverse team includes ecologists, land managers, habitat specialists, geospatial analysts, planning advisors, account managers, digital creatives, legal experts, and more.

From our site managers to our sales and marketing teams, everyone at Environment Bank is a champion for our values, working towards our goal of reversing biodiversity loss.

Environment Bank is a market-leading organisation in a sector that’s experiencing rapid growth. We’ve already built a highly skilled team of experts and we’re actively looking to expand our team in the coming months.

We’re incredibly proud of all we achieved so far and we’re still growing. If you'd like to be part of a driven organisation that's making a real difference, find your next role with the team at Environment Bank.

The Habitat Buildability Specialist will sit in the South, and operate within a multidisciplinary design team and provide specialist habitat creation, enhancement, restoration and management input to ensure that off‑site Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) Habitat Bank proposals are technically robust, spatially coherent, and deliverable in principle.

The role focuses on supporting ecologists in the design team to ensure that proposed habitats designed can be realistically established and managed over the required 30‑year period. The post supports the design of a wide range of habitats including woodland and scrub, species‑rich grassland, wetlands, and associated infrastructure, with an emphasis on feasibility, buildability, risk reduction and long‑term performance at the design stage rather than on‑site delivery.

Rather than leading the delivery of one or two specific habitat banks, the role will be regionally based and will support across multiple projects, providing technical input, reviewing designs, and supporting the development of habitat bank proposals and management approaches across the portfolio.

• Develop and refine Habitat Bank layout designs in line with ecological design principles.
• Assess the buildability of habitat proposals at design stage, identifying constraints and design risks early.
• Evaluate site constraints including soils, hydrology, topography, access, land‑use history, and surrounding land management, and integrate these into design solutions.
• Provide expert advice on habitat feasibility, establishment risk and long‑term condition targets to inform design decisions.
• Review habitat creation, enhancement and management proposals to ensure they are realistic, compliant and aligned with best practice.
• Prepare habitat creation and enhancement specifications, including methods, materials, tolerances and establishment requirements, to inform cost planning and budget forecasts.
• Produce and coordinate technical habitat drawings using GIS and/or CAD to feed into detailed design.
• Support the preparation of Habitat Management Plans (HMPs) and Habitat Management and Monitoring Plans (HMMPs) from a design perspective.
• Provide technical input to consenting, including planning applications, afforestation consent and related approvals.
• Coordinate closely with ecologists, hydrologists, land managers and other stakeholders to ensure integrated and buildable designs.
• Provide technical mentoring, support and quality assurance for junior staff.
• Attend site visits to assess and determine the potential for habitat creation and enhancement proposals.

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