Principal Ecologist

2 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Arcadis Full time
Join a well-established and industry-respected Ecology team delivering great results across a diverse mix of market sectors

  • Enjoy support from industry experts and explore opportunities for leadership roles, if desired
  • With a company that truly values its people, offering professional memberships and global project exposure
  • Genuine flex working opportunities including hybrid working and part time hours
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play.

With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world's most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.


Role description:

Role accountabilities:

  • Providing technical ecological expertise on a range of complex projects
  • Supporting the NSW Environment Team Leader and National Ecology Lead in maintaining a sustainable pipeline of work for a growing team (through business development) and building awareness of the Arcadis brand for this service line
  • Ensuring technical excellence across a range of Ecology deliverables through robust quality assurance
  • Proactively managing selected projects or components of projects, taking responsibility for resource allocation, quality assurance and client feedback and ensuring effective communication with internal and external stakeholders
  • Enthusiastically developing the technical skills of our emerging ecologists, both in the field and in their reporting, and in client and project management
  • Being a role model for the supportive and engaging culture that we foster in all our team members

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Tertiary qualifications in environmental science, botany, ecology, biology or related discipline
  • Experience in or a willingness for leading a team of ecologists is desirable but not essential
  • Strong capability in biodiversity field assessment, with skills in plant identification and vegetation classification and mapping
  • Demonstrated experience in ecological impact assessment
  • BAM Accreditation or ability and aptitude to acquire accreditation
  • Strong client focus and the ability to manage the commercial aspects of our ecology projects
  • Proven experience in building and maintaining effective relationships with clients and the ability to work collaboratively with other members of the team.
Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters.

It's why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.


You'll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you'll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet.

Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging


We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions.

Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.

Arcadis Australia is an endorsed employer for all women. See our range of benefits and policies directly at WORK 180

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