Health & Safety Manager

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 Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.

We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy and EV. 

This role will be within our Transmission & Renewables team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity. 

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

As a SHEQ Manager, you will set and deliver the SHEQ strategy, driving a positive, incident‑free culture and continual improvement across the workforce. You will assure legal and regulatory compliance through effective management systems, robust governance and clear performance insight. You will partner with operational leaders, clients and the supply chain to embed right‑first‑time quality, environmental stewardship and wellbeing in everything we do, and you will lead assurance activity that strengthens consistency across the Business Unit.

• Lead and inspire a positive safety culture across all projects and sites.
• Develop and support SHEQ (Safety, Health, Environment & Quality) teams, ensuring high standards and consistency.
• Advise senior leaders and help shape SHEQ strategy and systems.
• Prevent incidents, drive continual improvement, and ensure robust risk controls.
• Ensure full legal compliance (Health & Safety, CDM) and champion best practice.
• Plan and deliver audits, oversee incident investigations and prompt corrective action.
• Represent SHEQ with clients, regulators, and supply chain partners.
• Promote digital innovation, wellbeing, mental health and environmental responsibilities.
• Foster inclusion and talent development—help the team and business excel.

What you’ll bring

• NEBOSH Diploma or NVQ Level 6 (or equivalent); Chartered IOSH (CMIOSH) or working towards.
• SHEQ leadership experience across multi‑site operations, providing visible, values‑led leadership.
• Proven experience leading, developing and motivating teams, balancing assurance with practical operational support.
• Strong incident investigation and root cause analysis capability, using data and insight to drive continual improvement.
• Strong analytical, reporting and Microsoft 365 skills to inform decision‑making and maintain high standards.
• Clear, confident communicator, able to influence senior leaders, directors and clients and challenge poor performance constructively.
• Resilient and adaptable, with the ability to manage competing priorities across multiple contracts and changing business needs.
• Able to work autonomously, taking ownership and responding proactively to operational requirements and emerging risks.

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 
• 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 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 3 rd 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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