Senior Botanist / Habitats Specialist jobs at Jacobs in United Kingdom, Birmingham

Responsibilities

As an integral member of our team, you will hone your skills in backend and frontend technologies to support aircraft specific solutions and integrate with flight hardware. Successful candidates will:

• Contribute on a team of skilled engineers designing, building and maintaining thoroughly tested and stable software using a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFE).
• Perform technical tasks to include design-requirements, documentation, code and unit/integration test procedures.
• Maintain a collaborative approach with Product Owners, Software Architects, DevOps, Security and UX engineers.
• Be willing to share knowledge through proactive creation of wikis and documentation to help the team.
• Participate in daily stand-ups providing status updates and raise any technical issues with the rest of the team.
• Contribute to pull request reviews, system demos, planning meetings and retrospectives.
• Be able to switch and work on different projects as customer and program goals evolve.
• Ask smart questions, take risks, and champion new ideas
• Use judgment and originality by interpreting data; planning the work; and refining the methods and techniques being used

The role will include:

• Designing ecology monitoring programmes - develop survey programmes, lead and/or manage survey teams and be responsible for high quality data collection.
• Using your experience in botany - to provide expert advice to clients (internal and external).
• Leveraging your experience of national legislation - to support Environmental Impact Assessment and Habitats Regulation Appraisals etc.
• Acting as a Health and Safety champion – contributing to the development and review of risk assessments and method statements.
• A willingness to both learn from and mentor others – develop and share skills that build team and individual resilience. This will include engagement with our global communities of practice, externally facing communications (conferences, presentations, client meetings) and training events.
• Travel across the UK and Ireland to undertake site work – you will need a willingness to work in remote locations and, at times, stay away from home during the working week.