Specialist Plant Manager

M Group Services Limited; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading infrastructure services company in Nottingham as a Plant Manager, where you will lead the management of specialist equipment while ensuring compliance with regulations. Play a crucial role in resource planning, project support, and driving continuous improvements with a focus on safety and efficiency. Benefit from a supportive environment offering various employee benefits, including private healthcare and flexible working solutions.

Benefits

Matched or contributory pension scheme

Online GP service, 24/7

Employee assistance programme

My Rewards portal for retail discounts

Private health care

Discretionary bonus scheme

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Experience in plant and equipment management required.
• Adaptability and flexibility for extensive travel across the UK.
• Ability to create accurate forecasts and reports.

Responsibilities

• Ensure Specialist Plant meets all inspection requirements.
• Lead audits across depots and project sites ensuring safety.
• Oversee resource planning and maintain relationships with suppliers.

Skills

Knowledge of Management & Maintenance practices

Building and managing a remote workforce

Statistical data analysis

Understanding of PUWER and LOLER regulations

Relationship building and networking

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?

As an organisation, there is little we don’t do and plenty to get involved in. Our Group Support roles are vital in making sure we can help over 11,000 people deliver essential infrastructure seamlessly across water, energy, transport and telecom.

This role is in our Plant & Fleet department, our Plant & Fleet supports teams across our business with their vehicle, plant and specialist equipment needs, offering hire solutions that are commercially effective, reliable, safe and compliant.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

In this role, you'll take the lead in ensuring all Specialist Plant and accessories are not only fit for purpose but also consistently meet all relevant inspection requirements—both at the point of issue and while in use across the UK. You'll play a crucial part in supporting the successful delivery of projects by making sure resource planning is spot-on and our teams have the expertise they need when they need it.

Your commitment to safety and efficiency will shape how we work, with regular audits carried out across our depots and project sites to ensure a high standard of working conditions for everyone. As a champion of innovation, you’ll drive ongoing improvements across the Plant department—whether that’s through fresh ideas, safer ways of working, or more efficient processes that benefit both the team and the environment.

People are at the heart of this role, and you’ll take pride in building and leading a team that’s flexible, responsive, and aligned with the company’s wider goals—all while keeping a close eye on the budget. You’ll also maintain strong, productive relationships with suppliers and contractors through regular visits and active performance monitoring, ensuring we continue to raise the bar.

Finally, you’ll take ownership of the forward planning of Specialist Plant, helping to forecast income, availability, and purchase needs with accuracy and confidence. It’s a role that blends technical knowledge, strategic thinking, and hands-on leadership—and if that excites you, we’d love to hear from you.

What you’ll bring

• Knowledge of Management & Maintenance practices within a Plant & Equipment environment
• Be able to build and manage a remote workforce, creating a team environment to promote cross functional working
• IT literate with the ability to statistically analyse data
• Knowledge of Provision & Use of Work Equipment Regulations (PUWER) and Lifting Operations & Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER)
• Adaptable and flexible and prepared to travel extensively throughout the UK as required
• Build strong relationships and networks across the business to drive best practice and continuous improvement
• Ability to compile reports and provide robust and accurate forecasts / plans for the Department

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

In addition, this role offers;

• Company car or car allowance and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!

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.

Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.

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

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