Dig Team Leader

Career Choices Dewis Gyrfa Ltd; Pontypool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure services company in Pontypool, UK, is seeking a dedicated individual for their Clean Water Delivery Team. The role involves ensuring health and safety compliance, conducting risk assessments, and managing the delivery of metering installations. The ideal candidate must possess a valid Water Hygiene card, StreetWorks Ticket, and a strong background in water metering. This role offers a range of benefits, including a contributory pension scheme, health care cash plan, and opportunities for career development.

Benefits

Matched or contributory pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Retail discounts via My Rewards portal

Life assurance

Cycle to work and salary finance schemes

Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave

Discretionary bonus scheme

Health Care Cash Plan

Standby/Overtime/Call out pay

Personal Accident Cover

Qualifications

• Current and valid Water Hygiene card is essential.
• StreetWorks Ticket (NRSWA) is a must-have certification.
• Proven hands-on experience in water metering or new connections.
• Strong understanding of health and safety regulations is required.
• Must possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary on-site authority for health and safety.
• Conduct and document thorough risk assessments (RAS).
• Ensure compliance with safety protocols and company policies.
• Manage end-to-end delivery of metering installations and new connections.
• Maintain a safe and organized worksite with proper traffic management.

Skills

Water Hygiene card

StreetWorks Ticket (NRSWA)

Hands-on experience in water metering or new connections

Understanding of health and safety regulations

Communication and interpersonal skills

Job description

About The Role

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.

What will you be doing?

This role will be within our Clean Water Delivery Team.

You’ll act as the primary on-site authority for health and safety and conduct and document thorough risk assessments (RAS) prior to starting work.

You’ll ensure full compliance with safety protocols, company policies, and relevant legislation and maintain a safe and organised worksite, including traffic management and appropriate signage.

We’ll need you to manage the end-to-end delivery of metering installations and new connections whilst ensuring all work is completed to a high standard and within agreed timeframes.

What you’ll bring

• Do you hold a current and valid Water Hygiene card and a valid StreetWorks Ticket (NRSWA)?
• Have you got proven hands‑on experience in water metering or new connections?
• Do you have strong understanding of health and safety regulations and risk assessments?
• Are you someone who has excellent communication and interpersonal skills?

What’s in it for you?

• 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
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Recommend a friend
• Get rewarded for introducing people to us
• Standby / Overtime / Call out - 21 days plus bank holiday, rising to 25 days with service
• 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 army veterans.

Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.

Our values

• 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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