Water jobs in United Kingdom

About The Role. 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.

Want to be a part of it?

• As our Design Manager you'll be part of our Management Team involved in the different supervision of projects from inception to completion. You'll be working on our Anglian Water contract in Colchester.
• Under the Framework Manager you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the Design team and sub-contractor designers.
• Utilise time and resources effectively to meet budgets and delivery programmes.
• Carry out the implementation and monitoring of CDM and quality, ensuring all designs meet required water industry regulations Anglian Water and MGroup Water approved standards.
• Provide day-to-day leadership and mentoring for the Design Team and IOS Alliance Staff. Lead the definition and implementation of all training required to ensure alignment with the Engineering Standards.
• Be accountable for producing designs on time and on budget, meeting agreed SLAs, and acting as an ambassador for the company by supporting, promoting and implementing all company and Business Unit initiatives.
• Drive cultural change within the Design Teams, eliminating or minimising hazards in construction and operation.
• Ensure timely completion of multiple concurrent projects, safely and within budget. Facilitate internal and external review and progress meetings.
• Look for strategic technologies to improve the delivery of IOS Projects and support innovations to develop new technologies and solutions for the alliance's goals.
• Help develop new solutions and work through technical issues.

• Knowledge and experience in the water industry.
• Degree in engineering.
• Training and experience in Design in the construction industry.
• Effective management experience with ability to influence client judgement.
• Management training, skills & experience.
• SHEQ / Industry / Legal requirements.
• Comprehensive IT abilities including MS Suite and AutoCAD.
• Good communication skills, able to convey detailed data to a non-data literate audience and pass on skills.
• The role will be Hybrid, requiring regular communication with other members of the construction and delivery team based in our local office.

• Matched 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
• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• My Car Choice salary sacrifice EV/Hybrid car scheme
• Health Care Cash Plan for medical expenses
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
• 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 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 are responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet; we are 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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