Botanist

Are you a FISC Level 4+ botanist with a desire to put your botany skills to good use across diverse projects with the support of an experienced team?  Do you want to progress as a botanist without being pushed down a management route? Are you ambitious to develop your technical skills and career in line with a defined career pathway that follows the route you choose? Are you enthusiastic and keen to share your knowledge with a large ecology team that always strives to develop and be market leaders?

About Tetra Tech:

Tetra Tech is a leading provider of high-end consulting and engineering services for projects worldwide. We combine the resources of a global, multibillion dollar company with local, client-focused delivery in more than 400 locations around the world. We are Leading with Science® to provide sustainable and resilient solutions for our clients. Tetra Tech Ecology team won the CIEEM Large Consultancy of the Year Award and Large Scale Mitigation Award in 2023.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. They help our clients succeed, our business prosper and the communities we work in thrive.  We need the very best designers, project managers, engineers, surveyors, town planners, environmental specialists and business service professionals to maintain our reputation as a market leader.  We do this by taking care of our people; offering fantastic flexible benefits, providing personal and professional development, and giving employees the opportunity to work on exciting and ground-breaking projects.

We don’t want Tetra Tech to be just your next role, we want it to be a step-change in your career and ultimately a move that you are proud to have made.

The Role:

As Tetra Tech builds on its demonstrable track record as one of the leading global environmental consultancies, we are seeking a botanist FISC4+ to strengthen our existing botany expertise in the team. With ambitions to grow our UK presence to emulate the success of the global business, we are looking for dynamic botanist to join our established network of over 95 ecologists.  

As a multidisciplinary consultancy, we work closely with colleagues from other teams including Planning, Placemaking, Engineering, Transportation and Asset Management including the identification of opportunities, tendering and project delivery. Our botanists are proactive in developing relationships with colleagues from across the business, liaising with the wider ecology team and other technical teams, and supporting them through all stages of a project.

We pride ourselves on our ability to offer professional ecology advice across a breadth of sectors including residential, defence, energy, government services and transport. With over 95 permanent ecologists, we can draw on the knowledge of our technical experts to develop the best solutions. Examples of botanical projects we currently work on include:

·        NVC surveys in the upland fringes around Derbyshire and Lowland Meadows of Hampshire

·        Local Wildlife Assessments for Local Councils

·        SSSI assessments

·        Targeted notable arable plant surveys and many more!
 

We work on a diverse range of projects across various sectors nationally. We are looking for botanists FISC 4+ but ideally FISC 5 and 6 to support our National team with the diverse range of botanical work that we have. This will include completing surveys to assess site value, condition assessment surveys, NVC, specific species surveys, rare plant surveys, surveys to assess statutory site condition and whether sites meet the criteria for both designated and non-designated site designation, advising on habitat creation, mitigation, management and monitoring as well technical reports such as impact assessments and habitat management plans.

We are looking for botanists who are not only proactive in developing their own knowledge and understanding of flora but also willing and keen to share their knowledge to support the development of others. We are looking for the candidate to lead on the training of our national team by supporting junior grades through their Identiplant course through to improving our skills set and supporting our core team of botanists to develop and improve upon their FISC score. We want people who have strong field experience and ambitions to develop their technical skills in line with project requirements. 

We Lead with Science® and we encourage our team to share their findings with the industry (subject to sensitivities of timings and client permissions). We also encourage research-based elements to be brought into projects and many of the botanical projects we have worked on have resulted in publications and we encourage our team to continue to do this.

Flexible Working:

The role will require site work and some travel dependent on location of projects.  However, we operate fully flexible, hybrid working which allows our ecologists to choose where, how and when they work as long as our clients are receiving the high-quality service they expect. We focus on talent and skills, not postcode.  

We are happy to discuss flexible working for this role, including the possibility of reduced or compressed hours and flexible start or finish times. We can offer a range of solutions to help you get the most out of your work / life balance. If the timing’s not quite right for you, please do still get in touch as we will always consider deferring the start date for the right candidate.