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 MEICA and capital maintenance team. Our Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control & Automation (MEICA) experts offer a one-stop solution, including ongoing operation and maintenance services.
Key Responsibilities:
• Leading, mentoring, and supporting field supervisors and technicians to achieve daily and weekly delivery goals.
• Coordinating resource deployment across multiple sites and workstreams, ensuring safety and efficiency remain top priorities.
• Supporting onboarding, training, and performance development of field teams.
• Managing day-to-day delivery performance, identifying risks early, implementing corrective actions, and maintaining programme progress.
• You'll be conducting site visits, toolbox talks, and reviews to ensure standards are met and lessons learned are shared.
• Building trusted relationships with internal departments (planning, coordination, SHEQ, commercial) and external stakeholders (clients, DNOs, delivery partners).
• Supporting reporting, audits, and contract reviews, providing structured updates and data-driven insights.
• Maintaining strong awareness of commercial impacts and cost control within operational decisions.
• You'll be travelling between sites across the UKPN region as required.
Key skills, qualifications and experience:
• Proven experience in a supervisory or senior field operations role, ideally within MEICA, utilities, or infrastructure delivery
• Strong leadership qualities, approachable, consistent, and able to lead by example.
• A proactive, problem-solving mindset with the ability to spot and resolve issues before they escalate.
• Excellent communication skills, with confidence to engage at all levels, from field teams to senior client contacts.
• Solid understanding of safety management, compliance, and quality processes.
• The ability to balance people, performance, and commercial awareness in decision-making.
• Structured, reliable, and adaptable approach under pressure.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel within the contract region.
What’s in it for you?
- Company van/vehicle and fuel card for business use
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- 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
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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