Habitats Technicians

Company: Brindle and Green
Closing Date: 08-07-2025
Location: Derbyshire
Salary: £26000 - 35000
Hours: Permanent
Contact Title: Recruitment Officer
Contact Name: Recruitment Officer
Contact Email: recruitment@brindlegreen.co.uk
How to Apply: More information and to apply https://www.countryside-jobs.com/job/jul25/habitats-technicians-brindle-and-green-0306-6

Description

Brindle & Green are currently seeking Habitats Technicians to join the contracting arm of our highly experienced multi-disciplinary practice.

Our work is diverse and includes protected species fencing, badger sett creation and closures, habitat creation, habitat management, pond creation and more! You will liaise with inhouse ecologists, arboriculturists, landscapers and external contractors, to ensure work is delivered to requirements and within deadlines.

Much of our work is on behalf a wide ranging developer client base and is often an extension of delivering the requirements of the technical outputs designed by our own ecology division. You will ideally have an estates management or agricultural background or similar with land management skills and qualifications.

The role will include the use of machinery and plant, of which training will be provided prior to use. Tickets for excavator, saw, brushcutter etc are all desirable but aren’t essential for a willing and enthusiastic candidate. Your salary would be dependent on the level of skill/experience you join us with and there is plenty of opportunity for progression through the business for the right people.

You will work as part of a small team and have access to a growing set of tools and equipment as well as the support and benefits that come from working within a growing consultancy.

On occasion this role may involve working away from home. The frequency of this is carefully monitored and this would be the exception to the rule.

Scope of works in the job role includes but is not limited to:

• Newt/reptile fencing.

• Other fencing (Post & rail, birdsmouth, subterranean badger fencing).

• Vegetation clearance & felling using brush cutters and chainsaws.

• Tree protection fencing.

• Habitat creation (Hibernacula, ponds).

• Grassland translocation.

• Planting/seeding/turfing.

• Badger sett closures.

• Artificial badger sett creation.

• Footpaths.