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 water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital 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 Trainee Project Engineer you'll be working on our Anglian Water Framework Contract in Colchester. As a Trainee Project Engineer, you'll be enabling projects to be delivered to time, cost, specification, client needs and the needs and regulations of other stakeholders.
You'll support the Project Team in the delivery of Civil and MEICA work, you will support the capture of asset changes (decommissioning, alteration, creation) in the relevant corporate systems. Raise Early Warning Notices and Change Requests if projects incur delays in time or cost to Contract Management.
This is an excellent opportunity for an individual with strong practical/engineering skills and customer facing experience looking for the chance to train within a specialist industry at an expanding company.
Do you have the passion to lead projects, driving continuous improvement and delivering innovation towards maintaining the health of our water through Water Recycling treatment or the delivery of clean safe drinking water through the Clean Water treatment process?
In this varied role you will both site and office based, leading a range of projects for the client around East Anglia. The role will be heavily client facing so you must be comfortable with this. On top of this you'll receive extensive on the job and external training for you to become an expert within the industry.
This role would therefore suit an individual with strong engineering and practical skills with experience in a customer facing role, who is looking for a new challenge and the chance to play a key role on exciting projects for an expanding company.
Our commitment to you is to provide a staged learning process over 4 years, ensuring you have the skillset to undertake the full Project Engineer role and the tools to continue to develop through your career with us. Supporting in the delivery of Civil and MEICA projects within the Water industry in East Anglia.
What you’ll bring
- Hands on engineering background
- Experience in a customer facing role
- Engineering qualification HNC/HNC NVQ or higher
- Happy for regular travel
- Full UK Driving Licence
- Lives a commutable distance to Colchester
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
- 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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