Job: Team Leader / Principal Ecologist - Flora & Fauna (10413)

Eco Recruitment is a specialist recruitment company with a niche focus on the sustainability, water and environmental sectors. We aim to source high calibre professional candidates for our clients and interesting and environmentally sound opportunities for candidates.

With National and International offices, our client is a large engineering consultancy focused on delivering water, mining, rail and road infrastructure projects. Due to recent project wins and the promotion of a key member of staff, they have a significant amount of long-term secure work for their environmental team. This has led an immediate need for a Team Leader/Principal Ecologist with a focus on flora and fauna assessments.

Working as part of a diverse and multi-disciplined team, your role will be the management of a team of environmental professionals, including:

• Project managing and overseeing multiple environmental and ecological projects to varying degrees of complexity 
• Working with Net Gain, Habitat Hectare Assessments, EPBC Act referrals and other relevant environmental legislation and assessment programs
• Producing environmental management plans, fauna management and recovery plans and some fauna recovery
• Writing a range of reports to various professional audiences
• Leading teams and mentoring juniors including management of day to day project and personnel issues
• Conducting technical reviews
• Monitoring or auditing during construction (such as pipeline construction, development construction etc)

To be considered for this role, you will be a suitably qualified environmental scientist with a minimum of 7-10 years’ experience in environmental/flora and fauna assessment. In addition you will ideally you will have:

• Significant experience within a consulting environment and be able to provide sound advice to clients and internal staff
• Worked as a manager or be on the path to a management role
• Extensive experience with Environmental Impact Assessments (particularly Flora and Fauna Assessments), NetGain and Habitat Hectare Assessments, EPBC Act Referrals, Arboricultural Assessment etc.
• An understanding of the interrelationships and complexities between different disciplines such as ecology, environmental science, archaeology, planning, engineering, project management etc and how they come together to produce successful projects.  
• Dealt with the some big/complex projects involving areas of high environmental significance
• ‘Seen a pipe go into the ground’. That is, you will have experience with construction on site.
• A well-established reputation within the industry and have good relationships with relevant government authorities like DSE, DEWHA, Council and the EPA.

In return for your skills and experience, our client is offering you an opportunity to work on (and potentially lead) a diverse range of challenging and highly rewarding projects. You will be offered a competitive salary package plus extensive training and development, opportunities for secondment/rotation, professional fee reimbursement, bonus programs and a host of other employee benefits. 

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