Project Engineer M&E in Caldicot, Wales

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 Energy, we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives. We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation. This role will be within our Transmission & Renewables team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity. This role offers a hybrid arrangement with a main office base in Caldicot, covering substation projects in the South West & South Wales.

What will you be doing? As an M&E Project Engineer, you’ll be a key part in coordinating the execution of projects for M Group on behalf of National Grid. Do you have a positive & collaborative attitude with the ability to build and maintain relationships, both with clients and colleagues? You’ll work closely with the Project Manager, Site Managers & Planners to ensure timely submission of programme updates to the client. You’ll coordinate design teams through the client design verification and assurance process, ensuring contractual key dates are met. Drive the successful delivery of these projects by coordinating design, build, and programme management from concept to completion. Support suppliers and subcontractors with FATs and key coordination meetings. Oversee programme development and updates, and manage handover documentation, including Health & Safety files and as-built drawings. Act as a central point of collaboration, attending critical meetings to keep projects on track and exceed client expectations.

What you’ll bring: Previous experience working on National Grid substation works in a Mechanical / Electrical capacity. Ability to manage own workload, work autonomously with pace & attention to detail. Strong communication and engagement skills. Problem solver, adapting solutions and anticipating complications. Good computer literacy, with strong knowledge of Microsoft 365. Full UK driving licence.

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 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

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
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 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’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.