Design Assurance 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? At M Group Telecom, we’re enabling and enhancing telecom networks, playing a lead role in the delivery of our tech enabled future. We deliver full network cycle services for fixed, private and mobile operators. This role will be within our Private networks, where we find the best technology, manage assets and refresh systems. With 24/7 network operations, we keep things running smoothly, while operating comprehensive network repair and maintenance to keep everything in top shape.

What will you be doing? You’ll be responsible for overseeing and ensuring compliance of the design management procedures for our construction contracts from contract award until project completion. You’ll be responsible for overseeing and approving design compliance audits for construction contracts from contract award until project completion. You’ll be overseeing the production, maintenance, and implementation of a design programme. You’ll be approving design intent documents and technical deviation requests. You’ll be chairing design review meetings and attending hazard review meetings, ensuring pre-construction hazard information is considered and mitigated. You’ll be completing relevant sections of design intent documents and submitting design packages for compliance audits. Managing design changes in accordance with the design change management process. And ensuring proposed equipment is suitable and compliant with technical specifications. You’ll be planning, managing, and monitoring design works, ensuring health and safety aspects are coordinated.

What you’ll bring: We are keen to hear from candidates with a strong construction background or an experienced Design Office Manager who is looking to take the next step in their career. This could include an Authorised Person who has a solid grasp of design documentation, industry standards, and compliance requirements. You will bring proven experience in design management within the construction or energy sector, with a strong understanding of both technical and procedural requirements throughout the project lifecycle. A sound working knowledge of CDM 2015 is highly desirable, along with the ability to interpret, challenge, and manage complex design information. You’ll be a collaborative leader with excellent coordination and stakeholder management skills, confident working with multidisciplinary teams, contractors, and clients. You will be comfortable managing design change, ensuring that all solutions remain compliant with relevant standards, regulations, and client specifications. Professional credibility is important; chartered membership of an appropriate professional body is preferred. Experience working to SR135 and SR188 standards (or UK/BP TP135 and TP188) is required, along with a strong appreciation of safety, quality, and assurance processes in regulated environments. This role would suit someone who enjoys ownership, influence, and progression, and who is ready to step into a position with genuine responsibility for design integrity and governance.

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
• Company car and fuel card with a range of EV and hybrid vehicles to choose from
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy
• 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 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 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.