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?
We’re seeking candidates with experience in fibre networks and surveying. You’ll cover Northwest England, planning fibre cable routes, ensuring safety and accuracy, and holding, as a minimum, S11, S13, S017, S018, S020, and S021 accreditations (essential for working with Openreach). Most days will be spent on-site, analysing maps, assessing routes, identifying challenges, and providing solutions. You’ll collaborate across teams to ensure the seamless delivery of projects.
Competence with tablets/laptops and the ability to read technical plans and drawings is vital; training and support will be provided. You’ll follow rigorous safety practices, helping create a safe environment for all. This is a fixed-term role, with a company van and necessary tools provided. Some travel and overnight stays may be required.
If you have fibre surveying experience and the relevant accreditations, we want to hear from you—especially if you take pride in your work and are eager to progress.
What you’ll bring;
You bring strong technical knowledge with hands-on experience in fibre surveying. You understand network infrastructure and can confidently survey routes in varied environments. Relevant certifications such as S011, S013, S017, S018, S020, and S021 are highly valued. A full UK driving licence is essential, as regular travel is part of the role. You take a detail-focused and proactive approach to your work. You work well as part of a team and communicate clearly with colleagues and stakeholders. You are comfortable reading maps and plans and can record survey data accurately and consistently.
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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