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?
M Group Highways
At M Group Highways, we’re supporting the safe transportation and movement of people across the UK.
We don’t just build roads and bridges- we’re building a better future, creating lasting social value that gives back to the communities in which we work.
You’ll be joining our Highways maintenance team, as the UK’s number one highway maintenance contractor, our teams use the latest innovations to create effective solutions. We offer a range of services including planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes.
Want to come and be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
You'll line-manage Operatives, setting clear performance objectives for your team and manage a subcontracted service activity. Delivering regular TBTs and safety briefings ensuring good communication exists between all parties.
You'll take ownership for safety, health, environmental and quality compliance for your team and service activity. Promote excellent Safety standards and ensure Hazards, Near Misses and Incidents are reported and reviewed.
Supporting business initiatives such as the Service Strike Avoidance campaign and the company behavioural safety programme.
You'll be part of the standby rota for Winter Maintenance Service and/or Emergency response (OOHs) service. Supporting the business in the delivery of these services.
We'll require you to support contract financial objectives to achieve income and gross margin targets.
You'll carry out effective pre-works planning, on-site supervision, and value capture. We want you to be impowered to take corrective action at any stage to ensure the best possible outcome and work closely with the client to ensure their needs are met.
You'll work with the wider team to ensure works are correctly planned, communicated, materials ordered and resources available to deliver first time and avoid conflicting priorities.
Monitoring performance and output ensuring benchmark standards are met and inspection test plans followed.
You'll ensure all Operatives working on the network are inducted and working to company standards. Carrying out site briefings when necessary.
Work collaboratively with our client, HCC, to ensure works is programmed and delivered to meet their needs and site challenges are overcome through discussion and the sharing of good practise
We'll ask you to be involved in mentoring apprentices under our apprenticeship scheme.
We'll need you to be flexible in all types of work including covering other supervisors and manager as required. Providing support across the subcontracted services and Depot delivery areas.
What you’ll bring
- Good working knowledge of Health and Safety Legislation applicable to our industry.
- Commercially astute and able to ensure value is captured, costs controlled and seek efficiencies without compromising quality.
- Experience within the highway maintenance industry essential and CSCS, NRSWA and SSSTS.
- Effective communicator and exhibit role model behaviours helping individuals and teams achieve their best.
- Excellent customer relationship skills and the ability to work with the client to improve efficiency.
- Good general IT skills are essential, and ideally, you’ll be proficient in Office 365 applications.
- The ability to remain flexible in your approach to the role whilst embracing change and helping to drive that change through the wider teams and through into the delivery
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 van/vehicle and fuel card for business use
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
- Holiday purchase scheme
- 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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