Location
Liverpool

Hours
Full Time (hours not specified)

Salary
Not specified

About the Role
As an Ecological Consultant with WSP, you will join a large, friendly, and diverse team where collaboration, learning, and wellbeing are central to our culture. Flexible working is a core benefit, supporting a healthy balance between work, personal life, family, and wellbeing. You will be supported by a strong knowledge-sharing team with access to peer support networks, specialist groups, and open collaboration across all experience levels. You will have the opportunity to work alongside environmental specialists across the UK, broadening your experience through multidisciplinary learning and exposure to global expertise.

With structured training, mentoring, and clear progression routes, you will develop your technical ecological skills, grow your project management capabilities, and work towards protected species licences. You will gain hands-on experience on a range of large-scale and complex projects, helping to shape meaningful biodiversity outcomes and contribute to nature-positive solutions.

This role offers room for innovation in survey design, modelling, mitigation planning, and application of cutting-edge ecological methods. You will be supported to explore and develop your strengths while making a real impact at landscape scale. Above all, you will be part of a team with a strong sense of purpose, taking pride in contributing to projects that deliver genuine environmental benefit.

Your key activities will include:
- Planning and undertaking ecology surveys including Preliminary Ecological Appraisals and protected species surveys
- Preparation of tenders and a range of ecological deliverables including reports, method statements, and management plans
- Conducting Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) assessments
- Working closely with clients, project teams, and GIS specialists
- Applying the mitigation hierarchy and contributing to designing mitigation, compensation, and enhancement measures
- Client liaison and project management
- Consultation and negotiation with regulators and stakeholders
- Mentoring junior team members
- Helping to nurture an enthusiastic, supportive, and productive working environment
- Taking advantage of a generous training and career development budget to complete in-house and external training

Experience
- Professional experience within ecological consultancy or a regulatory environment
- Knowledge of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) principles and guidance, and experience conducting BNG assessments
- Understanding of digital data collection tools such as Coreo, Fieldmaps, and Survey123
- Clear, accurate report-writing skills and ability to produce robust ecological assessments
- Familiarity with relevant ecology policy and planning guidance

About you
- Strong communication skills, solution-focused and proactive
- Enthusiastic about working collaboratively and mentoring junior colleagues
- Passionate about creating a diverse and inclusive team environment

Qualifications
- Appropriate academic qualification and/or experience in a related discipline
- Membership of CIEEM or working towards it