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 infrastructure projects team. Our teams deliver large-scale programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As our Assistant Project Manager you'll be accountable for ensuring projects run smoothly while meeting all client requirements. Working closely with the Programme or Project Manager. You'll oversee safe, efficient, and compliant delivery of works, including preparing RAMS, ensuring adherence to job packs, permits, and environmental standards, and maintaining full NRSWA compliance. Regular weekly reporting on project status is required alongside proactive management of customer issues, escalations, and stakeholder engagement with contractors and highway authorities.
You'll be responsible for leading team performance, encouraging innovation, and sharing best practice across projects. This includes managing resources, plant, and materials, verifying competency and training, and ensuring all safety requirements are met through audits, PPE checks, and hazard reporting. Strong focus is placed on health, safety, environmental compliance, and maintaining the highest standards of professionalism and integrity at all times.
In addition, you'll ensure accuracy and completeness of all project data, including audits, reporting, and system updates. Responsibilities include monitoring production rates, managing job priorities against SLAs, resolving issues, and maintaining water quality standards. Effective performance tracking, data integrity checks, and continuous improvement are key to driving successful delivery and compliance with contract standards.
What you’ll bring
- Degree/HNC/HND or equivalent in Civil Engineering or Construction
- Management training such as Institute of Leadership and Management Level 5 or equivalent
- NEBOSH National Certificate (General or Construction)
- SMSTS
- Water hygiene
- Street Work - NRSWA
- Confined Space - Medium Risk Entry and Escape
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;
- 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
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
In addition, this role offers;
- Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Private health care – single cover
- Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Discretionary bonus 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’re one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting 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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