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 engineering and 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 MEICA and capital maintenance, Our Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control & Automation (MEICA) experts offer a one-stop solution, including ongoing operation and maintenance services.
We are seeking a recognised, experienced, and visible Business Unit Director to lead one of our strategic business units within the group. This is a pivotal leadership role, responsible for driving performance, shaping strategy and delivering sustainable growth.
What will you be doing?
This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for overseeing the delivery of complex MEICA projects across highly regulated industrial sectors. You will lead a multidisciplinary team of over 1,100 operatives, ensuring operational excellence, strategic growth, and sustained profitability.
Requirements:
• Full P&L ownership of the business unit, accountable for delivering against financial and non-financial KPIs.
• Lead the development and execution of the business unit strategy and annual business plan, including revenue, gross profit, EBITDA and cashflow targets.
• Set and communicate a clear vision and strategic direction aligned with group ambitions, at a 1–3 year work-winning horizon.
• Champion health, safety, and wellbeing, ensuring statutory compliance and promoting safe working practices.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, strategic partners and internal stakeholders, acting as a trusted leader and communicator
• Ensure robust governance and risk management, enforcing delegated authority and mitigating business risks.
• Drive innovation and identify new opportunities to enhance business performance and market position.
Candidate Profile:
• Proven track record in senior leadership roles, ideally as a Business Unit Director or General Manager.
• Demonstrated success in managing large and complex contracts or businesses, consistently achieving financial targets.
• Strong commercial acumen and sector awareness, with the ability to anticipate market trends and client needs.
• Excellent people leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills, with experience leading through change.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate vision into actionable plans.
• Effective communicator with strong interpersonal and influencing skills, capable of engaging at all levels.
• Purpose and values-driven, with a collaborative and high-energy leadership style.
• Desirable: Experience in integrating business units or departments and forming strategic partnerships.
Skills & Experience:
• Deep understanding of business management, governance and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to implement and communicate policies aligned with group standards.
• Experience in presenting to senior leadership teams and boards.
• Resilient and adaptable, able to thrive in a fast-paced, reactive environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on achieving results and seeing the bigger picture.
In addition, this role offers;
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- Private healthcare
- Pension scheme
- My Rewards portal, access to 1000’s of retail discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
- Reward and recognition scheme
- 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 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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