Project Manager and Marine Environmental Consultant

Location: SAMS, Oban
Contract Type: Open-ended
Working Pattern: Full Time – 37 hours per week
Salary Range: Grade 5/6 (depending on experience); Grade 5: £31,396 - £34,980. Grade 6: £37,099 - £41,732 per annum
Closing date: 6th January 2026

Job Purpose

To provide environmental consultancy duties within the SAMS delivery team, including project management and delivery of enterprise contracts, customer account management, opportunity generation and tender preparation.

Role Outline

• Project management and marine consultancy.
• Knowledge and experience of marine sectors and activities relevant to the work undertaken at SAMS Enterprise.
• Coordinating and managing projects through the delivery process to budget and customer requirements.
• Act as lead editor/author on multi-disciplinary technical assessments/reports.
• Demonstrate technical competency and provide direction and leadership in your own scientific specialism for commercial contracts.
• Opportunity development - engage with business development and proposals when required.

Our Ideal Candidate

• A degree or postgraduate degree in a marine environmental discipline
• Relevant experience in a consultancy or regulatory background including experience of survey work and survey management (essential).
• Demonstrated previous experience of successful project management in a commercially competitive environment.
• Ability to use software such as Q-GIS, R and standard Microsoft Office.
• Knowledge of costing/estimating, finance, resource and time management.
• Experience in working collaboratively with scientific staff and customers.
• Experience of contract management and working knowledge of standard contract terms and conditions desirable.

Interested?

We would love to hear from you. If you have queries on the job and would like to talk these through before applying, please email these through, in the first instance, to [email protected]

Closing date for application is 6th January 2026 - Interviews to be held in January 2026.

Please note, we are unfortunately unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must therefore have the right to work in the UK already in place when applying.

We are a Disability Confident Employer. Where a candidate requires reasonable adjustments as part of the application process, we encourage you to let us know. Where applicants with a disability meet the essential criteria for the job, you will be given the opportunity to demonstrate your skills, talent and abilities at interview.

SAMS’ commitment to gender equality has been recognised, as our institute was presented with an Athena SWAN (Scientific Women’s Academic Network) Bronze Award and is currently working towards Investors in Diversity accreditation.

SAMS follows Fair Work Practices.

SAMS Group is committed to being an equal and open organisation. Diversity and inclusion are important to us, and we strive to remove any barriers that may prevent people from applying to join us. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, and from all who share our values and can help us to broaden our knowledge and range of ideas.