Project Engineer in Colchester

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?

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 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 a Project Engineer, you'll play a key role in the successful delivery of construction and utility projects, ensuring work is completed safely, efficiently, and to the highest quality standards. Working closely with Project Managers, Site Agents, designers, subcontractors and client teams, you'll provide technical expertise throughout the project lifecycle, helping to turn designs into successful on-site delivery. You'll interpret and implement engineering drawings and specifications, resolve technical queries, support project planning and sequencing, and monitor progress to keep projects on track. You'll be responsible for maintaining quality assurance processes, carrying out inspections, managing project records, and ensuring all works comply with regulatory, client and company requirements. You'll also contribute to health, safety and environmental compliance, support risk management activities, and provide technical input at project meetings. By coordinating engineering information and collaborating across planning, commercial and SHEQ teams, you'll help drive efficient project delivery while supporting effective stakeholder communication and continuous improvement across site operations.

What you'll bring

• Do you have a degree or equivalent: Engineering discipline (e.g. Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Structural, Chemical)?
• Are you a Incorporated or Chartered Engineer (IEng, CEng) with a relevant body (e.g. ICE, IMechE, IET)? This is desired.
• Do you hold a valid driving licence?
• Do you have relevant Health & Safety Training? This is preferred.
• Have you gained SMSTS, CSCS, IOSH, or NEBOSH (project/site-specific)?
• Are you familiar with the principles and best practices of pipeline design and installation (water, gas, oil, drainage)?
• Do you have an understanding of:
• Trenching and pipe laying techniques
• Testing, commissioning, and maintenance procedures
• Awareness of environmental, health & safety, and regulatory requirements specific to pipelines.
• Experience in planning, scheduling and tracking project progress using recognised tools (e.g. MS Project, Primavera).
• Sound understanding of project costs, contract terms, and procurement processes.
• Awareness of commercial risks, change control, and the impact of variations.
• Capable of supporting cost estimates, tenders, and bid submissions.

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:

• 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
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!

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

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 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.