Graduate Project Engineer

BGEN Ltd; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Pension scheme

Death in service

Extra holidays

My Rewards

Employee assistance

Job summary

BGEN Ltd, part of M Group Water, offers a two-year structured graduate programme to develop future leaders in essential infrastructure services. You’ll grow by taking on challenges across project delivery, surveys, client meetings and design reviews while supporting office and on-site engineering teams.

This hybrid role includes training, progression, and a benefits package with a company pension, death in service, flexible holidays, and an employee assistance programme.

Qualifications

• A degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or Construction Management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good planning, organisational and time management skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• A proactive attitude and willingness to learn.
• Organised, reliable, and collaborative approach to work.
• An UK/EU Driving License.

Responsibilities

• Support the Project Delivery team by sourcing materials, monitoring project progress, and communicating potential risks or delays.
• Manage a portfolio of minor works projects while contributing to larger-scale projects, ensuring efficiency, quality, and timelines.
• Provide support to field and office-based engineering teams, ensuring they are confident and able to perform effectively.
• Grow technical knowledge while working both in the office and on-site, taking part in surveys, installations, client meetings and design reviews.
• Prepare risk assessments and method statements to support pre-job briefings and safe project starts.
• Be the main point of contact for assigned projects and escalate significant issues to Key Account Managers or Project Managers.
• Attend client sites as necessary to review progress and sign-off packages.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem solving

Planning & organisation

Communication & teamwork

Proactive attitude

UK Driving Licence

Education

Electrical/Mechanical Engineering degree

Construction Management degree

Job description

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?

At M Group Water 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 join BGEN - one of the UK's largest multidisciplinary design and build contractors with over 100 years of industry experience. We support clients in the water, power & energy, pharmaceutical, nuclear and food and beverage industries to deliver next generation, value-added engineering solutions.

What you'll be doing?

• Support the Project Delivery team by sourcing materials, monitoring project progress, and proactively identifying and communicating potential risks or delays.
• Manage a portfolio of minor works projects while contributing to the successful delivery of larger-scale projects, ensuring efficiency, quality, and timelines are maintained.
• Provide support to both field and office-based engineering teams, ensuring they are confident, well-equipped, and able to perform effectively.
• Grow technical knowledge while working both in the office and on-site—taking part in surveys, installations, client meetings, and design reviews.
• Preparing risk assessments and method statements to contributing to pre-job briefings, you’ll help ensure projects start safely and run smoothly.
• Be the main point of client contact for assigned projects and ensure any significant issues (e.g. delays or cost impacts) are escalated to the Key Account Managers or Project Managers.
• Attend client sites as necessary to review job progress and ensure packages of work are signed off by the Project Managers.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• A degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering or Construction Management
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good planning, organisational and time management skills
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities
• A proactive attitude and willingness to learn
• Organised, reliable, and collaborative approach to work.
• An UK/EU Driving License

M Group’s Graduate Programme

Our 2 year structured graduate programme is all about helping you grow into one of our future leaders. We’ll give you challenges that stretch you, chances to learn new skills, and all the support you need along the way

Evolve & Thrive

A structured development programme designed to help graduate and degree apprentices to build the skills, experience and confidence needed to become one of M Group's future leaders. Throughout your journey, you'll broaden your knowledge, develop your professional capabilities and benefit from a supportive network that empowers you to achieve your full potential.

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;

• Company Pension Scheme
• Death in Service Benefit
• Hybrid working is available following initial probationary period.
• Opportunity to purchase additional holidays per year (up to 5 days for full time employees)
• My Rewards - offering discounts on high street and online shopping
• Employee assistance programme

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.

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