Design Technician - M Group Highways

Apprenticeships; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company that delivers essential infrastructure services across the UK. As part of the Highways maintenance team, you'll assist in developing highway designs, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and collaborating with colleagues on innovative projects. With a strong focus on community benefits and employee development, this role offers a supportive environment where you can thrive. Enjoy a range of benefits, including a pension scheme, online GP service, and generous leave policies, while making a meaningful impact in your community.

Benefits

Matched or contributory pension scheme

Online GP service, available 24/7

Employee assistance program

My Rewards portal with retail discounts

Life assurance

Cycle to work, salary finance, and give-as-you-earn schemes

Reward and recognition scheme

Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Recommend a friend and get rewarded!

Qualifications

• Experience in highway design and maintenance.
• Familiarity with AutoCAD and design documentation.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing highway designs for maintenance and improvement.
• Conduct site visits, surveys, and investigations.

Skills

Awareness of Health & Safety & Environment

Awareness of AutoCAD

Clean UK/EEC driving license

Job description

M Group delivers infrastructure services across water, energy, telecom, highways, and rail & aviation to private and public sector organizations in the UK and Ireland.

We aim to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented individuals who 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 with a shared passion to create an environment where everyone belongs.

Across infrastructure, there is a need not only to maintain but also to renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you are at in your career, you will have opportunities to grow and develop with us. We focus on delivering essential infrastructure services for life, prioritizing safety, client and customer satisfaction, in a friendly, fun, and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.

Our values 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 to exceed expectations
• We’re together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We’re ambitious and embrace opportunities to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you’re a trainee, apprentice, graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry-recognized programs, training, and development.

Where will you be working?

At M Group Highways, we support the safe transportation and movement of people across the UK.

We don’t just build roads and bridges—we’re building a better future, creating lasting social value that benefits the communities in which we work.

You’ll be joining our Highways maintenance team, as the UK’s leading highway maintenance contractor. Our teams use the latest innovations to develop effective solutions. We offer a range of services, including planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes.

Want to be part of it?

What will you be doing?

• You will assist in developing highway designs for maintenance and improvement schemes
• If you have experience using AutoCAD, you will use it to produce design drawings
• You will assist in producing specifications, Bill of Quantities, H&S, and Environmental documents as part of a design package
• If you enjoy working in a team, you will do site visits, surveys, and investigations with colleagues
• You will ensure work complies with QSE standards and processes
• You will collaborate with colleagues to understand and develop project objectives
• You will assist in producing technical reports
• You will help with general office activities

Skills required

• Awareness of Health & Safety & Environment in design and construction
• Awareness of AutoCAD
• A clean UK/EEC driving license
  Transferable work experience skills from other industries are also valued

We offer a range of benefits to support your life both in and out of work, including:

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, available 24/7
• Employee assistance program
• My Rewards portal with retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance, and give-as-you-earn schemes
• Reward and recognition scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend and get rewarded!

It’s an exciting time to be part of M Group.

Closing Date

The closing date for this job is 13/06/2025.