Senior Construction 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 our highly skilled Senior Construction Manager you'll over see a major project on our Thames Water Infrastructure Capital Delivery Framework in Bexley.

You'll be responsible for overseeing a flag ship project from inception to completion and for the safe, on time, efficient and right first time delivery.

You'll head up a team of professionals as well as being the point of contact for the Client and stakeholders with M Group Water procedures. To deliver world-class health, safety, environment, and well-being performance and providing leading customer service and satisfaction.

You'll deliver operational objectives to assist Thames Water in meeting their Performance Commitments. Achieving high levels of compliance with Water UK performance metric targets. Supporting the maximisation of cash collection and margin whilst maintaining an excellent relationship with Thames Water through collaboration.

The scope of works will be varied to include large diameter trunk mains, construction of a pumping station, MEICA works, micro tunnelling shafts and HDD works.

Mentor and drive project teams, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment. Develop an environment where staff share ideas and best practice;

You'll be required to increase productivity, without compromising on safety and continuously drive efficiency. Assist in maximising cash collection and minimising work in progress and Deliver targeted margin.

Undertake SHE audits and inspections.

What you’ll bring

• Do you have a Degree/HNC/HND or equivalent in Civil Engineering or Construction?
• Do you have a NEBOSH National Certificate (General or Construction)?
• Have you gained experience of working in the utilities industry with large complex projects?
• Are you an experienced leader with proven track record in leading multidiscipline teams?
• Proven ability to deliver against operational targets
  
• Do you have experience of civils, tunnelling, trunk mains, pumping stations and MEICA?
  
• Experience in managing designers and subcontractors.
• Utilities experience
• Streetworks
• Stakeholder management experience

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

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 are one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army 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, we may close job adverts before the stated closing date. We’d encourage you to 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 our hiring process. Some of our roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of our induction.

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