Electrical Site Team Leader

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Colchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

My Rewards portal

Life assurance

Cycle to work

25 days annual leave

Discretionary bonus scheme

Job summary

M Group is seeking an Electrical Site Team Leader for Colchester to join the water infrastructure delivery team. You will supervise on-site delivery, ensure safety, quality and budgets, and coordinate with subcontractors and internal teams on the Anglian Water contract.

You will drive SHEQ compliance, lead toolbox talks, risk assessments and ensure compliant documentation, while maintaining welfare facilities and progressing multiple projects in a site-based role.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience in the water industry.
• Certificate in Site Safety Management or equivalent (5-day course).
• Experience in Electrical Installations within construction.
• Proven ability to manage sub-contractors and influence client decisions.
• Management training and understanding of legislative and SHEQ requirements.
• Good IT skills including MS Suite and project management experience.
• Strong communication to convey detailed data to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Supervise projects from inception to completion on the Anglian Water contract.
• Manage day-to-day delivery teams and subcontractors, ensuring safety, on-time and within budget.
• Lead on-site SHEQ performance, inspections, risk assessments and method statements.
• Coordinate with suppliers and internal teams; attend progress meetings.
• Minimise waste and maintain high health and safety standards on site.

Skills

Water industry knowledge

Site Safety Management

Electrical installations

Sub-contractor management

Management training

SHEQ compliance

MS Office / IT skills

Communication skills

Tools

MS Office

Job description

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?

As our Electrical Site Team Leader within the Construction Team, you'll supervise projects from inception through to completion on the Anglian Water contract based in Colchester. Reporting to the Site Manager, you'll manage day-to-day activities of delivery teams and subcontractors, ensuring projects are completed safely, on time, and within budget while meeting required quality and performance standards.

You’ll take full accountability for on-site SHEQ performance, including completing inspections, toolbox talks, risk assessments, method statements, and recording near misses. A key part of the role is driving positive safety culture and continuous improvement, ensuring compliance with legislative, environmental, and contractual requirements. You'll also ensure appropriate welfare facilities, valid training and qualifications for site personnel, and accurate completion of all SHEQ and corporate documentation.

The role requires strong coordination with suppliers, subcontractors, and internal teams, attendance at progress and review meetings, and oversight of multiple concurrent projects. You'll actively work to minimise physical and non-physical waste, support efficient delivery, and maintain high standards of personal health and safety across all site operations.

What you’ll bring

• Do you have knowledge and experience in the water industry?
• Have you gained a certificate in Site Safety Management (or attended 5-day course)
• Are you trained and experienced in Electrical Installations in the construction industry?
• Are you an effective manager of sub-contractors, and can you influence client judgement?
• Do you have basic Management training, skills & experience, with a good understanding of legislative and corporate
• SHEQ / Industry / Legal requirements
• Have you got comprehensive IT abilities including MS Suite, alongside good Project and programme management skills?
• Are you a good communicator, able to communicate detailed data to a non-data literate audience and be able to pass on skills?

The role will be a site-based, requiring regular communication together with other members of the construction and delivery team based in our local office.

What’s in it for you?

• 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 the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Discretionary bonus scheme

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 3rd party background checks as part of our hiring process. Some of our roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of our induction.