Project Manager

About us

At Environment Bank, we’re working together to help restore natural habitats across England. With thousands of acres of new habitat creation already underway, our projects are delivering biodiversity gains and helping vital ecosystems to recover and flourish. 

Our diverse team includes ecologists, land managers, habitat specialists, geospatial analysts, planning advisors, account managers, digital creatives, legal experts, and more. 

From our habitat specialists to our sales and marketing teams, everyone at Environment Bank is a champion for our values, working towards our goal of reversing biodiversity loss. 

Environment Bank is a market-leading organisation in a sector that’s experiencing rapid growth. We’ve already built a highly skilled team of experts and we’re actively looking to expand our team in the coming months. 

We’re incredibly proud of all we achieved so far and we’re still growing. If you'd like to be part of a driven organisation that's making a real difference, find your next role with the team at Environment Bank. 

About the role

As a Project Manager covering the North of England, you will be responsible for delivering habitat creation and enhancement projects safely, on-time and to budget.

This is an exciting role for a forward-thinking Project Manager where you would work closely with our ecologists, habitat delivery specialists and land managers to plan and deliver habitat creation works across your region. Project management will start with managing the programme of ecological design work through the legal process, into the live, capital works window of habitat creation and then onto the long term asset management schedule. Capital works would include creation and enhancement of a range of habitats including, woodland and scrub, species rich grassland, wetland, and associated infrastructure works.

Responsibilities

• Working alongside EB ecologists, habitat creation specialists and land managers as part of ‘project teams’ with responsibility for the delivery of our habitat bank network.  You will take a lead in organising and chairing meetings, creating and managing the project risk register, creating and managing the programme using information supplied by the designer (ecologist), habitat creation specialist, environment consents manager and contractors.
• Safe Delivery of the Projects, managing compliance and promoting a positive safety culture into all activities undertaken on the project.
• Taking specifications from ecologist and habitat creation specialists and lead on the procurement and awarding of works to suitably vetted contractors and suppliers and managing the timely payment of these contractors.
• Managing the budget for the habitat bank site and reporting forecast against spend.
• Reviewing and reporting against contractors and delivery partners KPIs.
• Managing the programme to ensure they are completed to the highest quality, to an agreed timescale, taking account of seasonal constraints, and within budget.
• Managing the change control process on the project.
• Managing the assurance schedule on the project.
• Maintaining high quality relationships and communicating effectively with project team members.
• Providing progress updates and key reporting on the project and keeping relevant project systems updated.
• Organising and chairing lessons learned sessions and collate outputs and disseminate.

EDI & Belonging

At the heart of Environment Bank are the people, who make it all possible. We employ individuals, who share the same passion to live our Environment Bank mission and values.

At Environment Bank we believe that fostering a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace makes us more innovative, dynamic, and competitive. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds, ethnicities, cultures, and experiences. We are committed to creating an environment where everyone is valued and respected, free from discrimination based on race, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected status.