Assistant Design Engineer

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 Assistant Design Engineer 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 part of the prestigious Southern Water contract, you will work under the supervision of a Lead Designer, managing and coordinating all activities and tasks within batch or scheme contracts to ensure the design of schemes/solutions within Pre-Tender, Investigation, Design, Construction and Completion stages. You will also ensure work is carried out in a productive and timely manner, maintaining a focus on minimising risk in all functions of Safety, Health, Environmental, Quality and Commercial aspects, having a focus on good customer service and creating long-lasting relationships with clients to encourage profitable repeat business to meet the MGW corporate objectives. A key element of the Assistant Design Engineer role will be to produce design drawings and construction packages to reflect the work that is to be delivered in accordance with the relevant Engineering Specification and all relevant Asset Standards or equivalent to the specific contract. Additional responsibilities: Deliver investigation, design, construction and project completion activities in line with client requirements, company standards, national regulations and industry best practice. Prepare, maintain and manage all project documentation, ensuring accuracy, compliance and timely completion of health 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 Healthcare – Single cover 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays Discretionary bonus scheme 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 are 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 3 rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding. #MGroupW IND3 INDREG #LI-LK1