Ecology Team Lead / Manager

My client is a large, global infrastructure and environmental consultancy with an established ecology team in Perth. They're looking for a Team Manager - Ecology to lead their botanists and zoologists and take the WA ecology practice into its next stage of growth.

This is a senior leadership role, but not a desk job. You'd be running the team, building client relationships and winning work, while staying close to the technical side and getting out in the field from time to time.

There's a strong pipeline of work across renewable energy, water, defence, transport and resources, and you'd have a national ecology network behind you.

The role

• Leading, mentoring and growing a team of botanists and zoologists
• Recruiting and building the team's technical capability
• Overseeing flora and fauna surveys, ecological assessments, reporting and approvals work
• Building client relationships and leading proposals and tenders across WA
• Keeping a healthy forward workload and pipeline of ecology work
• Managing budgets, fee proposals, resourcing and financial performance
• Working closely with the impact assessment and approvals team

What you'll need

• Extensive ecological consulting experience, ideally in WA - this is the key requirement
• A good understanding of both flora and fauna work, enough to lead and bring together botanists and zoologists
• Experience leading, mentoring or developing technical teams
• Sound knowledge of WA environmental legislation, approvals pathways and the regulators
• A track record of building client relationships and winning work
• Commercial experience - proposals, budgets, resourcing and project delivery

It would suit a senior or principal ecologist ready to step up into a broader leadership role, or an experienced ecology lead who wants the chance to build and shape a team.

What's on offer

• Salary negotiable depending on experience
• Hybrid working - generally 3 days in the office and 2 at home, with flexibility around it
• A real say in how the WA ecology practice grows
• Long service leave, volunteer leave and paid study leave
• National project work and travel opportunities

For more information or an informal, confidential chat, please get in touch with Ben Oakley on 0417 178 220 or ben.oakley@gatherrecruitment.com.au

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