Graduate Ecologist

Primary Purpose of Job:

Stantec is a leader in global infrastructure, water resource development, Buildings, Mining, Oil and Gas providing engineering design and remediation, construction, procurement, program management, and technology solutions for the environmental, water, wastewater, energy and power markets of the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific region. Stantec is looking for Ecologist to be based in the Pune, India office.

Key Accountabilities:

• Desk-based data gathering to support baseline ecological reporting. This will include a search for data on public and paid for sources at set distances from the project location.  
• Desk-based report writing – The role will include interpretation and analysis of ecological/biological data to determine constraints reporting for projects –the role will involve an understanding of the CIEEM guidance for writing Preliminary Ecological Appraisals (PEAs) Guidelines for Preliminary Ecological Appraisal (GPEA) | CIEEM 
• Desk-based impact assessment – As above however this would support Ecological Impact Assessment (Guidelines for Ecological Impact Assessment (EcIA) | CIEEM) as well as other impact assessment reports include Habitat Regulation Assessments (HRA) and Water Framework Assessment (WFD) development.  
• GIS mapping and presentation –the role requires competence at GIS to map and present data in support of associated reports. 
• Role requires an understanding of UK based wildlife legislation however it is expected that this will be developed through learning with the UK ecology team. 
• Attendance at weekly ecology meetings to understand projects and develop opportunities to support the team.