Current job opportunities in RML

We are currently seeking:

• a Senior or Principal Ecologist, click here for our role requirements.
• a Senior or Principal EIA Consultant, click here for our job description.
• a Senior or Principal Landscape Architect, click here for our job description.

​​If you are interested in joining the team email us with your CV, [email protected] 

Meet the Team

​Ivor Richards OBE, Managing Director and Chairman

Ivor has been a chartered engineer since 1972. In the 1960s whilst working for the Taf Fechan Water Board in South Wales Ivor was described by Alan Twort of Binnie and Partners as “A back door engineer like me”, his first degree not being in engineering.  Delivering large scale projects involving coal mining discard, iron and steel slags, slate waste and metalliferous slimes confirmed Ivor’s early conviction that civil engineering could and should do much better if only engineers talked to people in other disciplines.  A long involvement in a multi-disciplined approach to civil engineering was the result.  Ivor is a Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Water Conservators.

David Richards, Director and Company Secretary

David is a second generation director of RML.  A graduate of Mathematics and Astronomy, David rejoined RML in 2002 after a couple of years working in a telecoms equipment manufacturer.  Since then he has contributed to several internal research projects, the running of an inhouse specialist civils contracting company and since 2012 a Director and Company Secretary.  Following his father has been a theme and along with attending UCL for his first degree he is also a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company or Water Conservators.

Jon Stoddard, Principal Landscape Architect

​Jon is a highly-experienced landscape and environmental consultant having spent over 25 years working primarily in the private sector, managing a wide range of projects from inception through to completion. His main area of expertise is working as part of a multi-disciplinary team on highway and infrastructure projects through all key stages. Jon also has a track record in delivering coastal infrastructure and public realm projects, residential, business parks, industrial estates and trunk road soft estates and mixed-use development projects. 

Robert Jones, Environment, Safety and Quality Manager

​​Rob comes from a design background, but in the last 12 years he has taken on environmental and ecological tasks on construction contracts. He has supplemented significant site experience with specialist training and holds  dormouse and GCN survey licences and is an accredited NEC3: ECC Supervisor (2023). His experience with mammals and protected species includes leading site teams trapping reptiles and amphibians, implementing and monitoring dormouse mitigation, dormouse surveys, monitoring otters and badgers, water quality sampling and testing and carrying out watching briefs including vegetation clearance, building and dry stone wall demolition, etc.

Rhodri Edwards, Landscape Architect

Rhodri Edwards is a Landscape Architect with 20 years’ experience of working on infrastructure projects. He has worked closely with RML’s Principal consultants throughout that period, and is known to Welsh Government from a number of trunk road improvements schemes. He is a native Welsh speaker with a farming background, who uses Welsh in meetings and consultation events.  Specialising in LVIA Rhodri is a highly proficient and Autodesk trained 3D CAD user with design software packages of AutoCAD Civil 3D and 3ds Max. With a growing demand for visualisations he has prepared Photomontages, 3d visualisations and drive/fly-through videos.  Rhodri also carries out Phase 1 habitat surveys, is FISC level 3 and assists on Bat, GCN and reptile surveys.

Adam Lynch, Environmental Scientist and Environmental Clerk of Works

Adam has a strong background in biological and environmental research, having spent most of his early career in an academic setting and started work for RML in 2021 as an Environmental Scientist and soon after with on-site project work as Ecological Clerk of Works (ECoW). He became accredited as an NEC Supervisor in April 2023.  ​After completing a master’s degree in parasitology and tropical medicine, where he worked with high-risk organisms in Biosafety Level 2 labs, Adam won a NERC-funded grant to study for a full-time PhD in Ecotoxicology.  Adam leads on invertebrate surveys and carries out many Phase 1 habitat surveys and assists on Bat, GCN and reptile surveys.  He is FISC level 3 and in the process of attaining full CIEEM membership.

Kathryn Morris, Ecologist

Katy holds a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science from Liverpool John Moores University, is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM), and holds a valid Natural Resources Wales (NRW) bat survey licence with handling.  Since joining RML in 2021 Katy has conducted protected species assessments—including bats, hazel dormice, otters, water voles, native reptiles, and great crested newts (with her Survey licence)—and is experienced in Extended Phase 1 Habitat Surveys (is FISC level 3), Green Infrastructure (GI) Statements, Habitat Regulations Assessments (HRA), and digital spatial mapping using QGIS and QField. Furthermore, she is fully certified in advanced bioacoustics data management, having attained a Technician Level: Grade B in the Certificate of Bat Acoustic Analysis (CoBAA), and actively contributes to regional bat conservation through voluntary roost monitoring networks, bat handling, and dedicated bat rehabilitation care.

Eleri Pughe, Administrative Assistant

Eleri joined the team in 1992 and has since been carrying out typing (yes, we had typists in the early days!) and many other administrative tasks and now supports David with all matters involving invoicing and accounting.