Rewarding Work! - werkgeversreview Assistant Ecologist bij Southern Ecological Solutions

Very knowledgeable team with extensive industry experience. Extremely approachable and a variety of work across the south-east of England. The company is fast-paced and varied, but takes the time to talk encourage personal development for every one of it's ecology team members. Offer bespoke and defined career progression pathways for the ecology team, with regular mentor catchups and training (internal and external) throughout the year, including technical training but also wellbeing, time management and 'soft skills', There is also an award system where you can nominate outstanding colleagues on a regular basis for entry into a prize scheme. Following a recent merger, this company has taken lengths to encourage sustainable working. The new management team monitors work load and hours to mitigate burn-out and holds regular team-wide catchups for updates and idea sharing, valuing the wider teams input and suggestions. Great opportunity to get involved in long-term monitoring programmes of wildlife and habitats and there is an appetite to be involved in and develop research fields and new survey techniques. There is a variety of contracts available, with FT/PT/temp/perm and zero-hr contracts available after discussions with employees to ensure that personal needs are catered for, such as reduced hours/flexible working/split hours to accommodate childcare etc... There is an extensive employee benefit package available and this can also be extended to immediate partners and family members. Wages also seem to be above industry average.

Regularly working as an external contractor for large projects can be an interesting experience, with a lot of external influences affecting work streams last minute. As such, an element of flexibility is therefore required, but it should be noted that majority of the influences are outside of SES's control and originate from 3rd party contractors. As with all ecology, the work can be away from home on occasion and outside the 9-5 standard working hours.

Good wage for staff after a working there a year. Regular work available.

The project coordinators and admin staff are all over the place in terms of organisation and communication- always messing up the days i was available for, which caused massive issues with ecologists waiting for me on-site when i wasn't due to be working. Also, the land clearance staff that worked with this company had no respect for the ecologists and management made no effort to correct this. This lack of authority made the ecologists have to turn up on site and wait for hours for the clearance staff to turn up whenever they pleased and with no apology or decency. High turnover of staff due to this.