Project Engineer

M Group Ltd; Colchester; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Project Engineer, where you'll play a crucial role in delivering essential water infrastructure projects. This position offers the chance to work on large-scale capital programs while ensuring compliance with environmental standards. You'll collaborate with a dedicated team to manage project timelines, costs, and stakeholder needs in a supportive and respectful environment. With a strong commitment to safety and client satisfaction, this role is perfect for those looking to make a positive impact in the engineering field. Embrace the opportunity to grow your career while contributing to a sustainable future.

Benefits

Matched or contributory pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Access to retail discounts

Life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Company car and fuel card

Health Care Cash Plan

Discretionary bonus scheme

Qualifications

• Knowledgeable in planning and resource scheduling.
• Demonstrate excellent customer and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of MEICA projects under high workload.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, cost, and specification.

Skills

Project Management

Customer Management

Stakeholder Management

Cost and Risk Analysis

Negotiation Skills

Planning and Resource Scheduling

Education

Professional Engineering Qualification

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 Engineer you'll be working on our Anglian Water IOS Alliance Contract in Colchester.

You'll be enabling projects to be delivered to time, cost, specification, client needs and the needs and regulations of other stakeholders.

1. Support the Delivery/Operational Manager in the delivery of MEICA Projects work in times of high workload or resources shortages.
2. You'll support the capture of asset changes (decommissioning, alteration, creation) in the relevant corporate systems.
3. Raise Early Warning Notices and Change Requests when required if projects incur delays in time or increases in cost to Programme Manager.
4. Calculate Risk Index to ensure the data and processes in place are robust and auditable.
5. You'll develop solutions ensuring the optimum TOTEX solution is developed in line with corporate governance processes.
6. You'll also challenge data, confirm the need and analyse risks to establish clear cost and risk benefit proposition.
7. In addition, you will complete and comply with all operational Health & Safety requirements to ensure safe working practices.
8. Ensure personal H&S & MTRA are completed and valid.
9. You'll also ensure near misses are recorded through good catch.

What you'll bring

1. Are you knowledgeable in planning and resource scheduling?
2. Do you hold an appropriate professional engineering qualification?
3. Can you demonstrate excellent customer management and external stakeholder management skills?
4. Are you a strong negotiator?
5. Can you demonstrate basic understanding of the regulatory processes that govern Anglian Water's IOS Initiative?
6. Do you have previous Project Management experience?
7. Do you hold strong cost and risk based analysis skills?
8. Have you worked in an operational water setting previously?

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

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!
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

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.

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