Senior Ecologist - Environmental Impact Assessment (Hybrid working)

Amentum is seeking a Senior Ecologist for Environmental Impact Assessment in Rotherham, UK, offering hybrid working options. The role involves managing ecology inputs for EIA and DCO projects, leading site visits, and innovating assessment methods. Candidates should have EIA experience and a background in Habitat Regulation Assessments. Amentum emphasizes work-life balance, career development, and competitive benefits, supporting a diverse team in environmental, energy, and defence sectors.
We'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40+ countries, working with us offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are our greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.

In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for us. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About The Opportunity

Amentum provides client-oriented solutions across our environment, energy, and defence businesses. With a strong order book and a diverse, exciting portfolio of projects across the UK and internationally, we need to expand our team of environmental specialists across multiple disciplines required to deliver a project lifecycle-from new build and operations through to decommissioning and site end use. We offer opportunities for significant career advancement, attractive remuneration, and flexible working, as well as leadership and client relationship role development.

We are seeking a client-facing Senior Ecologist with environmental impact assessment (EIA) experience. The successful candidate will work alongside geoscientists, waste managers, geochemists, and safety case consultants in high-hazard industries. We are keen to hear from you if you have a recent background in the development of Habitat Regulation Assessments and Digital EIA.

You will deliver work across Amentum’s environment, energy, and defence businesses, contributing to complex projects and supporting clients in high-hazard industrial settings.

This role can be based in Harwell, Rotherham, Cumbria or Birchwood.

Key Responsibilities
• Environmental Impact Assessments: Manage and deliver ecology inputs into EIA and Development Consent Order (DCO) projects, from planning and data collection through to final reporting.
• Field Work & Client Liaison: Lead site visits, ecological surveys, and coordinate with client project managers to ensure alignment on objectives and compliance with relevant standards.
• Project Documentation: Oversee the production of screening and scoping reports to support planning applications.
• Methodological Innovation: Build a reputation by pioneering innovative methods of impact assessment for terrestrial, marine, coastal, and ecological environments.
• Best Available Techniques: Contribute to the development of techniques that consider climate resilience, emissions, noise, biodiversity, water discharges, and heritage within environmental assessments.

Here's What You'll Need

Below are the qualifications and experience that we’re seeking in applicants. We understand that not everyone will meet every single requirement, so if you believe you have most of the relevant experience and strong potential to succeed in this role, we’d love to hear from you.
• EIA Leadership: Minimum five years’ experience supporting the preparation of Environmental Impact Assessments for chemical, oil and gas, petrochemical, and waste management operations (or other high-hazard industries).
• Education: A degree in zoology, botany, marine sciences, geosciences, atmospheric chemistry, geology, ecology, or an equivalent field.
• Professional Qualifications: Chartered Ecologist, Environmentalist, Scientist, or equivalent professional accreditation.
• Additional Knowledge (not required): Familiarity with at least one of the following: air quality management, noise abatement policy/legislation, or dispersion modelling for terrestrial and/or marine environments.
• Communication & Problem-Solving: Strong interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to tackle challenges and effectively collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
• Flexibility: Willingness to travel, including potential overseas site visits, in support of project requirements.

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more .

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s - find out more about our employee networks here .

We partner with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.com to view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role.

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