Senior Ornithologist

Company Description

AECOM delivers professional services across the project lifecycle. Our teams help clients in transportation, buildings, water, renewable energy and the environment.

Join our dynamic Nature team as a Senior Ornithologist across the UK & Ireland. The role involves supporting bids, planning projects, delivering consultancy, developing solutions, providing data for habitat assessments, communicating with clients, authoring deliverables, and maintaining team performance.

• Support preparation of high quality bids for ornithological services in renewable and infrastructure sectors;
• Plan, schedule and organise all phases of bird survey and analysis projects, ensuring resources, budgets and controls are in place to meet programme and budget requirements;
• Deliver ornithological consultancy and advisory services to internal and external clients;
• Develop technically robust and pragmatic solutions to complex ecological issues across bird habitats;
• Provide bird data and analysis for Habitats Regulations Assessments;
• Communicate effectively with the ecology team, projects and clients via telephone, electronically, Teams and face‑to‑face meetings;
• Author and/or technically check project deliverables to ensure high quality outputs;
• Maintain team performance and skill sets.

• Proven track record of supporting planning and delivery of ornithology projects in the UK or Ireland;
• Well‑developed understanding of UK or Irish wildlife conservation and related legal and policy frameworks;
• Membership of an appropriate professional institution and evidence of working towards chartership (e.g., CIEEM);
• Excellent field skills in at least one specialist area of ornithology;
• Proactive approach to Health and Safety.

Core and personalised benefits, flexible hybrid working model, technical practice networks, AECOM University, volunteering days.

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Hybrid work options, a safe and respectful workplace, and a commitment to diversity.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential. AECOM is a disability‑confident employer and offers an interview scheme. If you require accommodations, please email Reaso All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.