Project Support Assistant

Thomson Environmental Consultants Guildford, Birmingham and Leeds United Kingdom Terrestrial Ecology On site

Company Description

Thomson environmental consultants: The independent, employee-owned consultancy, chosen by successful clients, admired by competitors, and the place to work preferred by top specialists.

With offices across the UK, our experts are committed to delivering our clients exceptional outcomes across a range of environmental services and ecological contracting.

We aim to be the most innovative, pragmatic and fast-growing environmental consultancy in the UK.

Position

Project Support – Ecology (FTC)

Do you have a passion for Ecology and are you looking to gain further understanding and experience within a highly successful UK environmental consultancy? If so - we'd love to hear from you!

We are looking for engaged and enthusiastic project support people for our Terrestrial Ecology team to be based in our Birmingham, Guildford and Leeds teams.

The ideal candidate will have an interest and passion for ecology and this role would be an exciting opportunity for someone either currently studying or a recent graduate of ecology or a related degree program. You will be supporting the Ecology team on a variety of ad-hoc, administrative and project based tasks. This role provides a great insight and an opportunity to gain further understanding of ecology..

Requirements

The ideal candidate will:

Be self-motivated with the ability to learn quickly.
Be a great communicator and have the confidence to work as both part of a team and independently.
Have good time management skills.
Be able to support on a variety of projects and tasks with wide and differing scopes.
Be living in the UK with the right to work.
Ideally have a Full UK Driving License (this is not a necessity).
This is a full-time, fixed term contract role based out of our Leeds office, so you’ll need to be within a commutable distance.

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Working at Thomson

We promote a happy, friendly workplace and are guided by the company’s core values of Respect, Integrity, Support and Excellence. We excel at providing our people with amazing career progression and offer an extensive range of company benefits which include: 25 days annual leave, healthcare cash plan, enhanced stakeholder pension scheme, life insurance, discounted gym membership, paid professional memberships, clothing allowance, outstanding performance rewards, free parking and regular local and company social events!

One of the major advantages to working at Thomson is that our people is at the heart of everything we do. As an Employee-Owned Trust (EOT), all Thomson employees have a stake in the business and reap the reward of its success including performance-related annual bonuses. We also pride ourselves in providing market leading internal and external training opportunities which contributes to individual tailored career path ways.

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As an equal opportunities employer, Thomson is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Thomson.

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