Senior Design Engineer

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 Telecom, we’re enabling and enhancing telecom networks, playing a lead role in the delivery of our tech enabled future.  

We deliver full network cycle services for fixed, private and mobile operators.  

This role is in our Mobile networks team, our team is responsible for keeping the country connected through the survey, design, installation and maintenance of private 5G networks, small cells, supporting Smart Cities & Connected infrastructure across the Group. Want to come and be a part of it?  

What will you be doing?

You’ll play a pivotal role in transforming infrastructure services, delivering safe, innovative, and practical design solutions. You’ll lead complex projects, carry out and review calculations, and ensure compliance with client, project, and regulatory requirements. Your expertise will guide early-stage options, define design intent, and ensure concepts work seamlessly from construction through commissioning.

You’ll collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, carry out site surveys, and interpret data to inform robust designs. You will lead technical delivery, resolve engineering challenges, and produce quality outputs, whilst engaging clients and stakeholders for approvals.

As a people manager, you’ll coach junior engineers, foster team spirit, set clear objectives, and champion wellbeing, safety, and inclusion. You’ll manage tasks, support development, and uphold M Group’s standards and policies in every aspect of your work.

What you’ll bring

You’ll bring leadership skills, having supported or mentored junior engineers and technicians. Strong communication and organisational abilities are vital, as you’ll coordinate tasks across projects. With a solid background in your engineering discipline, you’ll confidently lead design delivery and use design software and IT systems effectively. Experience in site surveys and inspections is a must, along with a relevant engineering degree or equivalent qualification.

Desirable:
Professional registration (IEng/CEng), familiarity with client or sector-specific standards, experience in feasibility studies and design justification, and the ability to support resource planning, technical reviews, and early risk identification will set you apart.

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  
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us! 

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car (or allowance) and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from  

• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme   

• Discretionary bonus scheme  

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays   
  
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more
• Overtime/standby/callout

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. 

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