Metering Dig Team Leader

The Clancy Group; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Holiday allowance 22 days

Clancy Xtras (employee discounts)

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

The Clancy Group is seeking a Metering Dig Team Leader to on-site lead a team in Hartlepool, delivering safe, high-quality meter installation work to programme. You will plan daily tasks, supervise field staff, and mentor operatives while ensuring compliance with health and safety standards.

Experience with CAT & Genny, NRSWA desirable, and a full UK driving licence is essential. The role offers a permanent, full-time position with competitive pay and benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams on-site in utilities or construction.
• Strong health and safety awareness and the ability to enforce safe practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support the on-site team to deliver work safely and to specification.
• Plan daily activities and allocate tasks for efficient completion.
• Carry out risk assessments, method statements, and site briefings.
• Ensure equipment and vehicles are fit for purpose and maintained.
• Maintain health, safety and environmental standards on site.
• Mentor operatives and support development while upholding high standards.
• Complete site records and digital reporting accurately.

Skills

Team Leader experience

On-site supervision

Health & safety awareness

CAT & Genny experience

UK driving licence

Tools

CAT & Genny

Excavators

Job description

That’s why we need people like you to help us deliver on our promises. People who enjoy getting things done and want to develop their experience in the world of utilities.

Metering Dig Team Leader

Company: The Clancy Group

Salary: £18.00 per hour

Hours: Full-time

Location: Hartlepool, TS24 8LW

Job type: Permanent

The Role

As a Team Leader, you’ll be responsible for leading and supporting your team on site, ensuring work is delivered safely, to specification and in line with programme. You’ll balance practical delivery with supervision, setting standards, mentoring others and being the go-to person on site.

Here are some of the activities you’ll be involved with…

• Leading a team carrying out excavation and installation of smart water meters
• Planning daily activities, allocating tasks and ensuring work is completed safely and efficiently
• Carrying out and reviewing risk assessments, method statements and site briefings
• Ensuring all equipment, tools and vehicles are fit for purpose and properly maintained
• Maintaining strict compliance with Clancy Group and Anglian Water health, safety and environmental standards
• Using underground service detection equipment such as CAT & Genny to support safe digging
• Acting as a mentor and coach for operatives, supporting development and maintaining high standards
• Completing site records, job paperwork and digital reporting accurately

We would love to hear from you if…

You have previous experience as a Team Leader or Supervisor within utilities, water, civils or construction, and enjoy working in a practical, physically demanding environment.

You’ll have a strong awareness of health and safety, confidence leading teams on site, and a proactive, organised approach to getting the job done safely and right first time.

A full, clean UK driving licence is essential, and NRSWA (Streetworks) is highly desirable. Experience using CAT & Genny, along with a CSCS card (or equivalent), is beneficial. Experience operating plant or small machinery such as excavators or diggers would also be an advantage.

Our Company

Every day we work smarter, greener and use our imaginations.

Our purpose at Clancy is simple - we make life better for everyone’s growing families. We play a vital role in providing fresh drinking water and power to millions of homes and businesses and so much more.

We are one of the biggest family owned construction businesses in the UK and we care about our people, our clients and the environment.

What Next

You apply, and we respond within two weeks (we know how annoying it is not to hear anything back)! If you don’t receive feedback within that timescale, please don’t be afraid to chase us - one of our values is to do what we say we will do!

Benefits

In addition to helping you reach your career goals, a competitive salary, pension, healthcare and holiday allowance starting at 22 days per annum, we also offer perks including Clancy Xtras, our employee benefits programme with discounts for numerous well-known retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Currys PC World and Vue Cinemas, cycle to work scheme as well as an Employee Assistance Programme.

Clancy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. If you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for you to attend an interview, please do let us know and we will be happy to accommodate.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Disability Confident Committed.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme