Trainee Working Supervisor FTC

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? 

Please note this is a 6 month FTC.

We are recruiting for a Trainee Working Supervisor to support our Thames Water Lot 3 contract, working predominantly within our Acoustic Logging Team across London and the Thames Valley. In this role, you'll form part of our delivery team, ensuring our health and safety commitments are met while achieving key operational targets for our client.

As the  Trainee Working Supervisor , you'll provide day‑to‑day leadership and operational guidance to site teams, setting clear expectations and ensuring all works are delivered safely and in line with legislation and client requirements.

You'll  champion a positive safety culture, actively encouraging Hazard and Near Miss reporting, and ensuring all activities follow approved RAMS and procedures.

We'll need you to be responsible for ensuring all SHEQ documentation is produced, maintained and communicated to the workforce. This includes managing permits, delivering site inductions, and completing weekly SHEQ audits.

Alongside this, you'll maintain productivity trackers, site statistics, and coordinate stock availability with the supply chain and wider teams, while promoting positive engagement with members of the public.

Additional duties include delivering toolbox talks, daily briefings, maintaining training records, supporting safety inspections, managing incident reporting, and overseeing weekly timesheets, plant and material returns, and site measures.

What you'll bring

• Do you have experience in clean water industry?
• Have you got previous supervisor or management experience?
• Do you hold a full clean UK driving licence?
• Do you hold EUSR Water Hygiene & NRSWA accreditations?

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

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!
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• 21 days plus bank holiday, rising to 25 days with service  
• Opportunity for overtime
• Personal accident cover                      

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.