Right across infrastructure, there’s a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you’re at in your career, with us you’ll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We’re problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.
This role will be within our Developer services - our developer services team connects water and wastewater services, installs lateral drains, and enables new developments access to vital water and wastewater services.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As a General Operative, you'll be working within our Site Delivery Team who are responsible for the construction, testing and commissioning of several large projects.
Due to the nature of this role you'll need to be able to excavate trenches, placing pipe bedding material, laying, and jointing pipes, backfilling and compacting trenches, mix and lay concrete, operate machinery, using equipment such as drills and pumps and move and unload materials and you'll work under the instruction and supervision of Gangers, Foremen and General Foreman.
We'll teach you how to operate various site plant and other construction site vehicles as well as acting as a Banksman all whilst keeping the site tidy and looking after tools and equipment.
You'll also need to;
- Provide assistance to the site team which may include a number of varied tasks.
- You'll work in a safe manner with consideration towards fellow workers and members of the public who you may come into contact with during our work
- Handle any fencing work, earthworks, construction of pipeline chambers and assisting skilled workers, for example joiners or bricklayers.
What you’ll bring
- Proven experience within a civil construction environment ideally with both wastewater and clear water is important.
- Do you have experience in Roads, Street works and cross-country pipeline construction?
- Do you hold a valid UK driving license? This is needed for the role.
- Are you or have you been a NRSWA operative?
What’s in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
- Employee assistance programme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
In addition, this role offers;
- Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
- Standby / Overtime / Call out
- 21 days plus bank holiday, rising to 25 days with service
- Personal Accident Cover
About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.
- We’re responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
- We’re open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
- We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
- We’re ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life
Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It’s an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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