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 Water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
You'll be pivotal in managing the technical input for the projects, coordinating and unifying contributions from multiple engineering disciplines, and leading a cross- functional team. Your responsibility will be to ensure that all aspects of the project are aligned, focusing on delivering the right technical solution that meets business objectives and project requirements.
You will act as a key liaison between various departments at Southern Water, including Operations, Environmental Enabling, and the Engineering and Construction team, ensuring that all factors – such as operational impact, environmental considerations, and technical needs- are thoroughly considered in every design.
What they’ll bring
Safety & Environment
Ensure compliance with health,
safety, environmental, and quality standards, including CDM regulations.
Develop and maintain health and
safety strategies and risk assessments for projects.
Promote sustainable solutions and
ensure the team follows health and safety practices.
Design & Technical Leadership
Lead design teams to deliver
cost-effective, long-term solutions
Oversee design quality, cost, and
timelines, ensuring adherence to Sothern Water’s technical standards.
Coordinate design efficiency,
focusing on standardisation and innovative approaches.
Financial & Commercial
Ensure the delivery of
cost-effective solutions that meet project budgets.
Work with Project and Programme
Mangers to manage financial performance and provide design cost forecasts.
Influence stakeholders to ensure
cost-effective design plans.
Programme Delivery
Ensue design programme are
realistic and monitor progress to meet deadlines.
Identify delays early and
effectively manage project timelines.
Customer & Stakeholder
Engagement
Ensure designs meet customer and
regulatory expectations
Represent M Group Water &
Southern Water at conferences and events, promoting the company’s work through
presentations and papers.
About You
- MEng/BEng/BSc or HND/HNC in Engineering, Environmental Science, or a related field.
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in the water/wastewater sector, with at least 3 years in a design management role.
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;
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
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’re 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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