Senior or Principal Ecologist

Company Description

At AECOM, we’re delivering a better world.

We believe infrastructure creates opportunity for everyone. Whether it’s improving your commute, keeping the lights on, providing access to clean water or transforming skylines, our work helps people and communities thrive.

Our clients trust us to bring together the best people, ideas, technical expertise and digital solutions to our work in transportation, buildings, water, the environment and new energy. We’re one global team - 47,000 strong - driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world.

Here, you will have freedom to grow in a world of opportunity.

We will give you the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion - a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

We will encourage you to grow and develop your career with us through our technical and professional development programs and diverse career opportunities. We believe in leadership at all levels. No matter where you sit in the organization you can make a lasting impact on the projects you work on, the teams and committees you join and our business.

We offer competitive pay and benefits, well-being programs to support you and your family, and the development resources you need to advance your career.

When you join us, you will connect and collaborate with a global network of experts - planners, designers, engineers, scientists, consultants, program and construction managers - leading the change toward a more sustainable and equitable future.

**Job Description**:
Auckland Natural Resources team is involved in a number of transformational projects around NZ, including the communities that many of us live in.

Some of your key responsibilities include;
- Supports in producing formal ecological reports, proposals, tender documents, and correspondence using high quality writing skills
- Carrying out ecological impact assessments (in accordance with EIANZ, 2018)
- Supports in the planning and implementation of field surveys
- Ability to travel to and undertake fieldwork with mínimal support, potentially for extended periods of time
- Carry out ecological and environmental impact assessments
- Provide high-level scientific report writing, incorporating relevant policy and legislation requirements, ecological impact assessment, monitoring and issuing recommendations
- Keeping abreast of new policies and legislation relating to biodiversity
- Ability to manage projects (or components of) and budgets to meet time and resource requirements
- Develop and maintain positive relationship with clients to enhance client retention and growth
- Identify further opportunities with clients and cross-sell AECOM services where appropriate

**About you**:

- 5-8 plus years of relevant professional experience
- Ideally previous ecological consulting experience
- Demonstrated experience in ecological survey work
- Enjoys working in a fun and diverse team environment
- Is openminded and innovative in their approach to work

**Qualifications**:

- Appropriate tertiary qualification (Environmental Science, Ecology, or similar)

Preferred Qualifications
- EIANZ Certified Environmental Practitioner

Additional Information

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together - your growth and success are ours too.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

Join us and let’s get started.

With infrastructure investment accelerating worldwide, our services are in great demand, and there’s never been a better time to be at AECOM Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm - access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation and benefits programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We also provide a robust global well-being program.