Delivery Manager (Frameworks) in Retford

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.

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 MEICA and capital maintenance team. Our Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control & Automation (MEICA) experts offer a one-stop solution, including ongoing operation and maintenance services.

We’re looking for a Delivery Manager to play a key role in growing our Energy and Water infrastructure frameworks, with a particular focus on reliability maintenance and capital maintenance services. This is not a traditional delivery-only role. Instead, it is centred on framework development, client engagement and work winning identifying opportunities, shaping solutions, and converting pipeline into secured work across long-term client partnerships.

We operate across Energy and Water infrastructure, supporting critical national assets through reliability-led maintenance and targeted capital interventions. Our teams help clients:

• Maintain and improve asset reliability and resilience
• Extend asset life and optimise performance
• Deliver small to medium capital maintenance schemes
• Meet regulatory, environmental and operational compliance requirements

Within our MEICA Maintenance team, we provide full lifecycle support across Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control & Automation from inspection and maintenance through to upgrades and refurbishment. This role will focus on maximising value from existing frameworks, ensuring we are the partner of choice for both planned maintenance programmes and reactive/improvement-driven capital works.

You’ll play a key role in driving growth by developing and strengthening client relationships, positioning us for repeat business and new opportunities. You’ll identify and pursue work across reliability maintenance programmes, asset upgrades, and capital maintenance schemes, taking the lead on early engagement activities such as site visits, surveys, and solution development.

Working closely with commercial teams, you’ll support the development of competitive, value-driven proposals and help expedite quotations. You’ll build and maintain a strong pipeline of opportunities, driving them through to successful conversion, while ensuring solutions are practical, aligned to client requirements, and commercially sound. You’ll also monitor framework performance, KPIs, and demand trends to proactively identify growth areas. Acting as a senior escalation point for technical and customer matters, you’ll ensure a smooth transition from opportunity to delivery by collaborating closely with operational teams.

Do you have proven experience in delivery across utilities, energy, water, or infrastructure sectors along with working within H&S and compliance-driven environment? Have you got a background in maintenance, reliability engineering, or capital delivery? (MEICA preferred) Do you have proven ability to develop opportunities within existing frameworks or client accounts? Have you got experience supporting or leading surveys, scopes, quotations and work winning activities? Are you someone who has a strong understanding of asset reliability, lifecycle maintenance and capital interventions, Commercial awareness (costs, pricing, contract performance, KPIs)? Do you have the ability to engage clients on asset performance challenges and translate them into solutions? Do you have strong communication and stakeholder management skills? Have you got good IT skills (Microsoft Office and associated systems)? Do you have any Contract / Project Management qualifications? This is desirable. Do you hold a full UK Driving Licence?

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include:

• Contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000s 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
• Recommend a friend get rewarded for introducing people to us!

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
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

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 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.