Highway Supervisor in Witchford

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?

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, 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.

What will you be doing?

• You’ll deliver the services in line with contract requirements and to the satisfaction of the client and their customers.
• You’ll ensure all work allocated is appropriately programmed, planned, supervised, and executed in accordance with specifications, drawings, dimensions and within agreed commercial limits.
• You’ll focus on operational gross margins of all work that you are delivering, from the pre-works planning stage, to on site supervision - through effective management.
• You’ll be responsible for the day-to-day Health & Safety of directly employed staff and Supply Chain Partners and deliver tool box talks.
• You’ll ensure all work carried out is in accordance with local operational procedures and M Group Highways policies by ensuring instructions have target cost/and or job code and that any changes to work requests are formally recorded and coded.
• You’ll agree, set and monitor performance objectives in terms of time, cost, safety and quality programme.
• You’ll provide training, development and encouragement to staff and operatives to ensure all works are fully resourced.
• You’ll manage all vehicles and plant used in the depot.
• You’ll support development and mentoring of the apprentices.
• You’ll be involved in Emergency and Winter Maintenance.

What you’ll bring:

• You’ll need experience in construction delivery and workforce supervision.
• You’ll be commercially driven to be able to capture working cost efficiencies, cost control and saving money where possible for the benefit of the client and M Group Highways.
• You’ll need experience within the highway maintenance industry, or have CSCS, NRSWA and SSSTS/SMSTS.
• You’ll provide leadership, motivational and influencing skills to get the best from everyone.
• You’ll need general IT skills, ideally in Microsoft Office products.
• You’ll drive excellent relationships with contacts at all levels – from the client to colleagues and contacts across the wider Milestone company.
• You’ll need this approach in the role whilst embracing change and helping to drive that change through the wider teams and through into the delivery.

What’s in it for you?

• 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.
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Standby / Overtime / Call out.
• Personal accident cover.
• Holiday purchase 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’re 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.