Site Manager/Agent

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 Site Manager, you’ll play a key role within the Delivery Team, overseeing the safe, efficient, and timely delivery of water and wastewater projects across the Thames Valley. These projects vary in size, value, and complexity, and may include shaft construction, pumping stations, trunk mains, cross-country pipelines, deep drainage, dewatering, directional drilling, tunnelling, and MEICA works. You will take full responsibility for project delivery, ensuring a strong focus on safety, quality, and performance at every stage.

In this role, you’ll lead the promotion of a zero-harm, industry-leading behavioural safety culture while ensuring all activities align with MGroup Water Services’ business management systems and processes. Your responsibilities will include preparing and implementing key site documentation such as RAMS, permits, temporary works, and toolbox talks, as well as managing engineers, supervisors, subcontractors, and site resources including labour, plant, and materials. You’ll also be responsible for developing and delivering Project Management Plans covering environment, quality, safety, health, and wellbeing, while coordinating design, document control, and ensuring compliance with all regulatory and client standards.

You'll play a crucial role in building collaborative teams, engaging with customers and the public, and ensuring all works are delivered safely, on time, and to a high standard. Duties will include conducting site inductions, audits, and safety observations, reporting on project progress to stakeholders, and ensuring all actions from audits or investigations are closed out in a timely manner. You’ll also lead continuous improvement initiatives, support incident investigations, ensure training requirements are met, and obtain all necessary approvals to maintain compliance and excellence in project delivery.

What you’ll bring 
• Degree/HND/HNC or equivalent in construction management or engineering
• Experience of water or wastewater infrastructure
• Control of costs and value management
• Schedule management
• SMSTS
• CSCS Black card 
• Health and Safety training or recognised certification such as NEBOSH or similar
• Understanding of Temporary Works requirements

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 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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