Utilities Survey Technician

M Group Highways; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading highway maintenance contractor at M Group Highways, where you'll ensure safe transportation across the UK. In this role, you will carry out utility assessments, advise on health and safety, and manage stakeholder interactions. With opportunities for professional development, M Group is dedicated to creating lasting social value and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Matched or contributory pension scheme

Online GP service

Employee assistance programme

Life assurance

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Reward and recognition scheme

21 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Experience in health and safety procedures.
• Proficient in conducting utility assessments.
• Skilled in managing stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities

• Conduct utility assessments for underground and overhead apparatus.
• Advise on safety precautions for excavation.
• Produce sketches of service locations for future reference.
• Issue permits to dig and manage site permit registers.
• Mark utility locations on site and refresh existing ones.
• Contribute to Health and Safety investigations.

Skills

Health and safety compliance

Utility assessments

Stakeholder management

Education

SMSTS

NRSWA

SEATS

Overhead Cable Measuring (SupaRule)

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 Highways, we’re supporting the safe transportation and movement of people across the UK.

We don’t just build roads and bridges- we’re building a better future, creating lasting social value that gives back to the communities in which we work.

You’ll be joining our Highways maintenance team in Suffolk, as the UK’s number one highway maintenance contractor, our teams use the latest innovations to create effective solutions. We offer a range of services including planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What you’ll be doing:

• You’ll undertake utility assessments for underground and overhead apparatus.
• Are you a health and safety champion? You’ll advise on safety precautions for safe excavation practices.
• You’ll produce sketches of service locations for future reference.
• Are you organised? You’ll be issuing permits to dig, and reporting accurate details in site permit registers.
• You’ll be marking utility locations on site and refreshing existing locations where needed.
• Are you confident in managing stakeholder relationships? You’ll be meeting with appropriate stakeholder representatives to agree details of GS6 reports.
• You’ll undertake appropriate training to further knowledge on underground and overground utility marking to support business activities.
• You’ll contribute to Health and Safety investigations including reporting on findings immediately post incident or near miss occurrence.
  
  

What you’ll bring:

You’ll need SMSTS, NRSWA, SEATS and Overhead Cable Measuring (SupaRule)

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:

• 21 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend - get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Personal Accident Cover
• Standby / Overtime / Call out
  
  

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, 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 3rd 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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