MEICA Project Manager

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; Swindon; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched or contributory pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

My Rewards discounts

Life assurance

Cycle to work

Salary sacrifice EV car options

Health Care Cash Plan

25 days annual leave

Discretionary bonus scheme

Company car and fuel card

Job summary

M Group is seeking a Project Manager to lead the trunk main delivery programme within our water and wastewater capital project delivery team. You will coordinate across design, planning, construction, commercial, permitting and traffic management to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery with strong safety standards.

You will drive governance, RAMS, environmental compliance and handover, while engaging with external stakeholders and leading design across MEICA and civils interfaces to optimise

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in Civil Engineering or Construction.
• LM Level 5 or equivalent.
• NEBOSH National Certificate (General or Construction).
• Experience in leading multidiscipline teams.
• Experience delivering infrastructure projects on time and to budget.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate across design, planning, construction, commercial, permitting, traffic management and commissioning.
• Own end-to-end delivery of the trunk main package with safety, time, cost and quality targets.
• Establish governance, baselines and drive risk and opportunity management.
• Lead CDM compliance, RAMS, permits and safe systems of work.
• Interface with Thames Water and manage progress reporting, change control and gates.
• Oversee environmental compliance, quality assurance, testing, chlorination, as-builts and handover.
• Manage stakeholders including highways authorities, councils, landowners and residents.
• Coordinate design development across MEICA and civils; ensure constructability and phasing.
• Produce integrated programme across design, permitting, procurement, construction, testing and commissioning.

Skills

Led multi-discipline teams

Project delivery

CDM compliance

Stakeholder management

Risk & opportunity management

Education

Civil Engineering degree

Institute LM Level 5

NEBOSH National Certificate

SMSTS

Water hygiene

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?

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 Project Manager you'll play a key role in our trunk main delivery programme. You’ll coordinate seamlessly across design, planning, construction, commercial, permitting, traffic management, and commissioning. You'll own the end-to-end delivery of the trunk main package, ensuring performance against time, cost, quality, and safety targets. This includes establishing project governance, maintaining programme baselines, and driving risk and opportunity management. You’ll also lead CDM compliance and Principal Contractor duties, ensuring robust RAMS, permits, safe systems of work, and a strong safe-by-design approach.

You’ll act as the primary day-to-day interface with Thames Water, managing progress reporting, change control, assurance gates, and operational constraints. Your role covers environmental compliance, quality assurance, pressure testing, chlorination, as‑builts, and handover. You’ll manage key external stakeholders—including highways authorities, councils, landowners, businesses, and residents—while coordinating comms and consents for road closures, night works, and customer impact mitigation. You will also lead design development and approvals across MEICA and civils interfaces, ensuring constructability, phasing, utility surveys, and clash management.

You’ll produce and manage an integrated programme across design, permitting, procurement, construction, testing, and commissioning—protecting the critical path, productivity, and delivery certainty. With ownership of budget, forecasting, change control, and subcontract performance, you will set clear expectations for the site team. Fostering a high-performing culture built on behavioural safety, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What you’ll bring

• Do you have a degree/HNC/HND or equivalent in Civil Engineering or Construction?
• Do you have Institute of Leadership and Management Level 5 or equivalent?
• Have you gained your NEBOSH National Certificate (General or Construction)?
• Experienced manager with proven track record in leading multidiscipline teams
• Proven ability to deliver against operational targets
• Commercially aware and engaged
• Committed to delivering the highest health and safety standards
• Do you have experience in an operational manager role?
• Have you gained experience of infrastructure delivery?
• Experience in managing designers and subcontractors
• SMSTS
• Water hygiene

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;

• 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
• 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’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 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.

For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.