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 major projects and 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 a Site Manager, you’ll take ownership of the day-to-day delivery of site operations, ensuring all works are completed safely, efficiently, and in line with programme requirements, quality standards, and client expectations. You'll lead site teams and subcontractors, promoting a positive health, safety and environmental culture while ensuring compliance with company policies, statutory regulations, RAMS, and safe systems of work.
You’ll carry out regular site inspections, audits, toolbox talks, and safety briefings, while leading or supporting investigations into incidents, near misses, and non-conformances to drive continuous improvement. Maintaining accurate and detailed site records will be a key part of the role, including site diaries, labour and plant returns, material records, inspections, and photographic evidence.
Working closely with project teams, you'll coordinate programme activities, monitor progress against planned milestones, and proactively resolve any issues that could impact delivery. You'll also manage quality assurance processes on site, ensuring Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs) are followed, inspections are completed, and any quality concerns are effectively addressed. In addition, you'll build strong relationships with clients, stakeholders, and operational teams, ensuring all works are delivered in accordance with technical specifications, governance requirements, and contractual obligations.
What you'll bring
- Do you have a degree in Engineering, Construction Management or related discipline (or equivalent experience)?
- Have you got demonstrable experience leading site operations on construction/infrastructure projects?
- Do you have a strong understanding of health, safety and environmental legislation?
- Have you got experience with quality assurance processes and managing non conformances?
- Are you able to interpret drawings, specifications and technical documents?
- Do you have programme delivery experience, including monitoring progress and recovery actions?
- Have you got strong communication and leadership skills?
- Do you have organisational skills, including management of site documentation?
- Are you someone who has cmmercial awareness related to progress reporting, variations and change capture?
- Do you have a CSCS Card, SMSTS or NRSWA accreditation? (where applicable to the project)
- Have you got sector-specific certifications where required for project access/compliance, Water: EUSR Water Hygiene, DOMS?
- Do you have a Temporary Works Coordinator certification?
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 van/vehicle and fuel card for business use
- Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
- Private Healthcare - single cover
- 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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