Project Agent in Cambridge

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.

M Group Highways

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. We deliver specialist civil engineering for the private and public sectors across the UK, building strong relationships based on a collaborative approach.

Role is to join our Civils Projects delivery team in the Eastern Region, working in Peterborough.

What will you be doing?

• You’ll lead associated site team including, engineering teams and subcontractors to successful completion of works.
• We’ll ask you to produce short term programmes from the Contract Programme and communicate it with the wider team.
• Be responsible for recording the as-built information and change items.
• Monitor site activities against target programmes reporting exceptions in outputs, delays etc.
• You’ll be responsible for ensuring change on site is identified and recorded in line with the NEC contract conditions.
• Whilst supporting the site engineering teams and provide guidance.
• Monitor all works activities to ensure that they meet the Works Specification and are being delivered in a safe manner following the principles of our behavioural based safety initiative, It Starts With Me.
• We would expect you to complete a site diary, organise and deliver site inductions and daily briefings, keep good site records and ensure all subcontractors and operatives have the relevant documentation to start work safely.

What you’ll bring

• Do you have a good level of experience in civil engineering and workforce supervision including earthworks; drainage and structures in a highways environment?
• A sound commercial foundation to facilitate cost control.
• Effective team management, leadership and influencing skills to get the best from everyone.
• Excellent customer skills and the ability to work collaboratively in all situations.
• The ability to drive excellent relationships with contacts at all levels including the client, colleagues and members of key stakeholders.
• Highly organised and able to prioritise, whilst multi-tasking for many stakeholders, and still remaining focused on what’s most important.

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.
• 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.
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Recommend a friend get rewarded for introducing people to us!
• Holiday purchase scheme.
• Personal Accident Cover.

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 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.