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Who are we? Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km’s of pipes, to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. We are an essential service and have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic. At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open. This is an opportunity to contribute to Thames Water's future capacity in delivering life's essential service and influencing the environmental and sustainability aspects of our capital projects. The UK water industry is changing; tighter regulation, renewable energy and biodiversity net gain targets make Thames Water an exciting and rewarding place to be as we deliver one of the UK’s biggest Capital Delivery programmes. The supply of wholesome drinking water and safe treatment of wastewater is critical to protecting our environment. We are passionate about our responsibility for successfully delivering innovative solutions from feasibility and design through to construction and therefore have opportunities right across the project lifecycle. What you will be doing As a Lead Ecologist for Thames Water Capital Delivery in the London Non-Infrastructure (LNI) team, you would be a key member of the Technical Assurance team, working closely with the Environmental Technical Assurance Engineers. You would work on an exciting and diverse range of water sector projects. * Play a key role in our Preliminary Design (de-risking stage) and optimisation activities, working with our multi-disciplinary teams to identify ecology-related compliance risks associated with the planning system, net loss, protected species, invasive species and Habitats Regulations Assessment * Work with the project teams to develop strategies to counter or mitigate risks, to help facilitate smooth project delivery and assist in the procurement of any deliverables required such as ecological surveys and reports * Support the LNI team in developing proactive strategic initiatives, such as batch eDNA surveys across an upcoming programme of work * Conduct ecological walkovers to assist with de-risking activities for protected species e.g., badgers, water voles, bats, GCN, etc. * Perform an Ecological Clerk of Works role looking at, for example, vegetation removal and pre-construction badger walkovers * Review Design and Build contractors Ecology & Protected Species Method Statement, Risk Assessment Method Statement (RAMS), and Natural England assent/ consent applications * Assist Capital Delivery in managing relations with environmental and wildlife groups, charities, regulators, and other stakeholders * Support delivery of the Thames Water’s 10% biodiversity net gain commitment across capital projects, providing a challenge at the project level and assisting in the collation of data at the programme level to ensure our biodiversity outcomes are achieved * Be a key interface between Capital Delivery and Thames Water’s Biodiversity Team who are working to deliver a separately funded programme to enhance the biodiversity of selected Thames Water sites by 5%. Explore and facilitate opportunities for our contractors to complement these enhancements to offset losses on their projects * Steer our contractor’s compliance with achieving biodiversity net gain by reviewing the Biodiversity Calculators and Landscape Reinstatement plans at regular intervals. Support the handover of projects back to Asset Management * Support the Environmental Technical Assurance Engineers in educational and training initiatives to help embed an appropriate culture across the organisation and our contractors We’re looking for you to: * Have a degree in Ecology, Conservation, Earth Sciences, or a related topic * Ideally, be a full member of the Charted Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) * Have expertise with the industry-standard Biodiversity Metric * Have excellent experience in a similar role * Hold at least one protected species licence held or be working towards one * Have a full driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work purposes Our people are the heartbeat of our business, and their wellbeing is our primary concern. We are looking for people who are passionate, innovative, energetic, and ready to rise to the opportunity of working in the fastest growing and most densely populated part of the UK. What’s in it for you? Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with length of service and a wider benefits scheme. We’re proud of the positive ways of working we have adopted during the pandemic. We want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles we’re moving to a hybrid approach where we’ll provide options around working from our offices, our operational sites and home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process. Thames Water is a unique, rewarding and diverse place to work. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and unparalleled benefits. We’re also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion and Disability Confident Leader and we’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Women. Click here to find out more about working at Thames Water.

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