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?
At M Group Telecom, we’re enabling and enhancing telecom networks, playing a lead role in the delivery of our tech enabled future.
We deliver full network cycle services for fixed, private and mobile operators.
This role will be within our Fixed networks team, you’ll join our people who support providing turnkey solutions for the surveying, designing, building and commissioning new networks, while supporting the repair, maintenance and operation of existing networks.
Project Gigabit is Openreach’s flagship initiative, delivering ultrafast, reliable full fibre broadband to hard-to-reach homes and businesses nationwide. As part of the UK’s digital acceleration strategy, Project Gigabit puts Openreach and you at the forefront of future-proof infrastructure development. As Survey Lead, you will help deliver one of the UK’s most ambitious fibre programmes.
Want to come and be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As the Survey Lead, you will:
- Lead and manage the survey team, providing technical guidance and day-to-day support.
- Assess survey estimates on behalf of the client, ensuring accuracy and value.
- Report regularly against targets, KPIs, and deliverables, presenting project progress to stakeholders.
- Validate and sign off surveys, guaranteeing quality and compliance, bridging site operations with the office.
- Oversee stakeholder engagement, maintaining clear communication across project partners, clients, and internal teams.
- Maintain responsibility for survey quality assurance, technical validation, and sign-off.
- You’ll be required on-site and, in the office, collaborating closely to drive project excellence. You’ll play a pivotal role ensuring surveys are robust, accurate, and align with client and regulatory standards.
What you’ll bring;
• Demonstrable management experience in a similar role within telecommunications or infrastructure surveying.
• Strong background in survey assessment, quality control, and validation.
• Technical expertise in fibre networks and surveying practices.
• Ability to manage estimates and confidently report against project targets.
• Proven stakeholder engagement, communication, and leadership skills.
• Competence in using tablets/laptops and interpreting plans, drawings, and maps.
• Accreditations: S11, S13, S17, S18, S20, S21 (Assessor desirable).
• Full UK driving licence—essential for regular travel.
• Proactive, detail-oriented approach with a commitment to high standards.
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 (Telematics Installed)
- Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
- Private health care and health care cash plan for you
- Discretionary bonus 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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