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?
As our Safety, Health, Environment & Wellbeing (SHEW) Manager you'll be a highly organised, efficient multitasking and flexible individual. You'll have proven team management experience who is keen to be part of a vibrant team.
You’ll be responsible for leading the SHEW performance and managing a team supporting our Southern Water Capital Strategic Delivery Partner (SDP) Contract. You'll be based across Southern Water Region.
As our Safety, Health, Environment & Wellbeing (SHEW) Manager, you will be part of the Senior Leadership Team. You'll work closely with senior management and operational teams, ensuring a strategic and proactive approach to managing SHEW performance while striving for continual improvement.
You’ll support and build ongoing client relationships, facilitate internal and external meetings, prepare and present SHEW performance, reporting to parent company and clients requirements.
As you’d expect with this role you will act as a role model providing advice, guidance and governance. Proactively lead and develop the SHEW team, whilst collaborating with Central SHEW, to support operations, lead incident investigations, identify solutions and maintain mandatory standards.
This role is a full time area based role requiring regular attendance at client and operational sites.
What you’ll bring
- Experience of the utilities and/or civil construction sector.
- Experience of implementing and maintaining CDM requirements, ideally as Principal Designer and Principal Contractor roles.
- IOSH membership, ideally CMIOSH with relevant qualifications and experience managing and developing a team.
- Willingness and confidence in engaging with clients and interacting with stakeholders at all levels whilst demonstrating high standards of safety behaviour, leading by example and promoting a positive safety culture.
- Full UK driving licence – you’ll travel across operational sites and may include overnight stays.
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
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
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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