Senior Ecologist

Location: Sheffield (hybrid working)
Salary: 30,000 - 40,000 DOE

• 30,000 - 40,000 DOE

• Hybrid and flexible working

• Clear career progression within a growing consultancy

• Support with licences, training and professional development

• The chance to work on exciting, large-scale and impactful projects

Are you ready to take the lead on high-profile, meaningful ecological projects? Our client is a forward-thinking and fast-growing environmental consultancy with a strong reputation for delivering innovative, sustainable solutions across the UK. With an expanding portfolio of major developments, they are now looking for a Senior Ecologist to strengthen their Sheffield-based team.

This is a brilliant opportunity to step into a senior role where you'll shape projects from the earliest design stages through to delivery, influence sustainable outcomes, and mentor the next generation of ecologists.

You will be trusted to lead complex projects, provide expert technical input and ensure ecological best practice is embedded across everything our client delivers. This is a hands-on role combining leadership, fieldwork and high-level reporting.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading Preliminary Ecological Appraisals, habitat surveys and protected species surveys

• Designing and delivering mitigation and enhancement strategies

• Producing, reviewing and signing off high-quality technical reports, including Ecological Impact Assessments

• Acting as a key point of contact for clients, planners and multidisciplinary project teams

• Supporting and mentoring junior ecologists to help them grow

You will be an experienced ecological consultant who enjoys responsibility, problem-solving and helping projects achieve positive outcomes for nature.

You will ideally have:

• A degree in Ecology or a related discipline

• Several years' experience in ecological consultancy

• Strong working knowledge of UK wildlife legislation and planning policy

• Experience managing projects and leading ecological inputs

• Protected species licences (bats, GCN, etc.)

• A full UK driving licence

Please call James Hardie at Penguin Recruitment for more info.