About the job
Are you passionate about shaping the future of the environment? Join our esteemed Nature team as a Principal Ecologist in Birmingham or any of our other growing locations including Cambridge, Basingstoke, Croydon, Leeds, Nottingham, Newcastle, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Bristol, with the advantage of our flexible hybrid working model.
At AECOM, we lead the way in ecological innovation, delivering a diverse array of ecology programs through long-standing partnerships with key clients. Our current projects span the power and renewables, infrastructure, environment, and transport sectors, and involve collaboration with various technical disciplines, such as landscape architecture, GIS, engineering, sustainability, and drainage. Recent accomplishments include overseeing some of the largest consented solar farms in the UK, energy transition projects, habitat regulations assessments for local authorities, and the master planning of new residential developments.
Your Role:
- Provide leadership and support in delivering high-quality ecological consultancy and advisory services to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Plan, schedule, and organize all phases of ecological project work, ensuring resources, budgets, and controls are aligned to meet program and budgetary goals.
- Develop technically robust and pragmatic solutions to complex ecological challenges.
- Lead and contribute to the production of ecology chapters for environmental statements and protected species license applications.
- Review and author project deliverables to ensure they meet the highest standards of quality.
- Contribute to the growth and enhancement of our technical capabilities.
Join Us in Making a Difference.
Become a part of our dynamic Nature business, which includes approximately 230 experts in arboriculture, forestry, groundwater, surface water, and ecology. Our team features national and global leaders specializing in species licensing, impact assessments, habitat creation, ecosystem restoration, and management. At AECOM, you will thrive in an inclusive and forward-thinking environment that values your contributions.
Enjoy a range of core and personalized benefits aimed at supporting your well-being and future, tailored to fit your lifestyle. Take advantage of career development opportunities, our hybrid working model for an optimal work-life balance, technical practice networks, AECOM University, and volunteering days.

