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.
The It Starts With Me Lead is responsible for embedding, and advancing a proactive, safety culture across all contracts and teams. The role drives behaviours, systems, and leadership practices that ensure people go home safe and well, and the organisation continually improves its performance in health, safety, and wellbeing. The role acts as a strategic partner to project leaders, enabling them to integrate safety principles into everyday operations and decision‑making.
Want to come and be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
Strategic Culture Leadership
- Assist in the development of and promote the organisation’s safety commitment – it starts with me, ensuring alignment with business goals and project delivery models.
- Champion a culture of psychological safety, transparency, learning, and accountability across all projects and functions.
- Shape and influence safety culture at all levels.
Engagement, Coaching & Capability & Building
- Coach project leaders, supervisors, and frontline teams to adopt and role‑model business values and best‑practice safety behaviours.
- Working with contract to provide direction on ISWM activities and campaigns.
- Promote safety conversations, and site engagements that focus on two-way dialog.
- Promote and support cultural improvement and behavioural‑based safety programs.
- Documents and promotes the outcomes agreed at the Divisional ISWM SteerCo meetings.
Learning & Continuous Improvement
- Facilitate and support excellence workshops (Human Organisational Performance), learning teams, and reflective learning activities across projects.
- Develop and track cultural indicators and proactively identify opportunities for improvement.
- Promote a Just / Fair Culture model across the business.
- Report on cultural maturity, trends, and insights.
- Use data to inform decision‑making and recommend targeted interventions.
- Promote ISWM considerations are integrated into project lifecycles from bid stage through execution and close‑out.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Influence
- Build strong relationships across the senior team, delivery leads, subcontractors, and client organisations.
- Influence and support senior team to make evidence‑based decisions that strengthen culture.
- Engage internal (group safety engagement manager) and external partners, regulators, and industry bodies to benchmark and share learning.
What you’ll bring
- Good understanding of safety management systems, risk assessment, incident investigation, and regulatory frameworks.
- Awareness or knowledge of Human & Organisational Performance (HOP), behavioural science, or organisational psychology.
- Experience applying learning methodologies such as learning teams, appreciative inquiry, or after‑action reviews.
- Ability to analyse safety culture metrics, qualitative insight, and operational data.
- Ability to facilitate groups, workshops, and cross‑functional sessions.
- Coaching and influencing skills to shape leadership behaviours at all levels.
- Ability in storytelling and communicating safety through engaging narratives.
- Conflict resolution and negotiation skills, particularly in complex project environments.
- Proven track record in safety, organisational culture, or operational leadership roles within project‑based industries.
- Demonstrated success in driving culture change programmes.
Desired Qualifications
- NEBOSH Diploma, NVQ Level 6, or equivalent H&S qualification.
- Training or certification in HOP, behavioural safety, leadership coaching, or organisational change.
- Project management exposure (e.g., APM, PRINCE2) to understand project lifecycles.
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 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 and health care cash plan for you and your family
- 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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