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Senior Hydrologist/ Senior Aquatic Ecologist - Water Team - Cardiff

Cardiff, gb💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-30 → 2026-10-03

Core

Lead and grow a dynamic Water Team to deliver complex aquatic projects, providing best-practice advice and ensuring compliance with legislation and policy.

Role type

Senior IC hydro-ecological project lead and team manager

Builds

Large, complex hydro-ecological projects including field surveys, environmental assessments, and permitting

Domain

Environmental consultancy, aquatic ecology, hydrology

Required skills

Team leadership and development, technical oversight and mentoring, project and financial management, business development and client engagement, knowledge of hydro-ecological survey techniques, knowledge of legislation and policy, report writing and assessment delivery

Preferred skills

Experience in environmental consultancy, background in aquatic ecology or hydro-ecology, track record of winning work

Technologies

eDNA, INNS surveys, GIS, flow gauging

Responsibilities

Manage team workloads, performance, training and development; Lead and deliver large, complex hydro-ecological projects; Oversee budgets, forecasting and team financial performance; Win new work through bids, tenders and client engagement; Provide expert guidance on legislation, policy and best practice; Review and approve technical reports and deliverables

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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