Area 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?

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 Area Manager, you'll lead our South London operating area, ensuring contract commitments, business objectives, and customer expectations are consistently achieved. Working closely with planning teams and Highway Authorities, you'll develop and deliver multi-year programmes that meet contractual targets and support long-term operational success. You'll be responsible and accountable for the delivery of mains replacement programme.

You'll build strong relationships with subcontract partners to ensure projects are resourced with competent, qualified teams, while providing leadership and support to Site Managers to drive a culture of safety, quality, and customer-focused delivery. Working collaboratively with commercial teams, you'll seek opportunities to improve performance, maximise value, and outperform target cost allowances across your portfolio of schemes.

A key part of the role will be developing and mentoring your team, building resilience and capability within the business while creating a strong succession pipeline for the future. You'll also champion continuous improvement, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently, safely, and to the highest standards for our clients and customers.

What You’ll Bring

• Do you have proven experience in leading multi-site operations while managing multiple 3rd party stakeholders and a demanding client?
• Have you got Water mains replacement experience? This is essential for the role.
• Can you demonstrate commitment to safety?
• Do you hold a valid driving licence?
• Are you able to integrate support functions with your operational team to capture opportunities for continuous improvement?
• Do you have success in raising standards, improving production and enhancing outcomes by nurturing talent and managing poor performance?
• Have you got experience of operating in a regulated environment with rigorous quality standards and procedures?
• Do you hold a CDM qualification such as SMSTS or NEBOSH?

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
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you and your family the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• Private Healthcare - family cover
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Discretionary bonus scheme

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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