Senior aquatic ecologist

Job Details

The Netherlands faces major challenges: the transition of the rural area, achieving the WFD objectives, housing construction task, climate change and increasing biodiversity. As a senior advisor on water quality and aquatic ecology, you are involved in, for example, the redesign of stream systems, but also in the design of new residential areas or purification swamps. You advise our customer on the assessment systems and the Water Framework Directive system. You are also familiar with the relevant water quality tools –en models and know how to apply them. In close interaction with our hydrologists, you know how to translate your system knowledge of water systems into clear, practically applicable advice and solutions for the customer. Your clients will mainly be water boards, provinces and Rijkswaterstaat.

Requirements

Because you bring more than 10 years of work experience in a commercial environment and a network, play an initiating role in further expanding the field of water quality and aquatic ecology within Sweco, where you work together with our growing group of ecologists and hydrologists. You are in a lot of contact with your customer and thus quickly build a (internal and external) network. You use this to gain and impart knowledge and skills, so that you take the business unit to an even higher level.

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  A relevant college or university education, towards Aquatic Ecology, Land and Water Management, Biology, Environmental Sciences or Physical Geography

• At least ten years of relevant work experience in the case of a commercial party, preferably in the case of a consultancy or engineering firm

• A good network in the field and the ability to generate work for yourself and the team in which you work

• Ambition and the willingness to invest in your own future and that of your team, where you enjoy being both substantive and process-oriented

• Daring to look across borders, you are curious, enterprising and customer-oriented

Contact Information

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If you have any substantive questions or are interested in Sweco, please contact Ron Buitelaar, team manager, on 06-51258820 or ron.buitelaar@sweco.nl. Questions about the application process can be asked to Kirsty Bushoff, via 06-57029598 or kirsty.bushoff@sweco.nl.

https://www.sweco.nl/solliciteren/?vacancy=40001