Graduate Planner in Edinburgh

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.

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.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Graduate Planner to join 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.

As a Graduate Planner, you'll get the opportunity to be part of our planning department who are responsible for producing robust and detailed programmes for all works associated with the design, procurement, and construction phases of the projects. A key part of the role will be liaising with the Project/Construction Manager and Site Engineers to ensure that the programme keeps up-to-date with any changes.

Our 2-year structured graduate programme is all about helping you grow into one of our future leaders. We'll give you challenges that stretch you, chances to learn new skills, and all the support you need along the way.

As an M Group Graduate, you can look forward to:

• Tailored development workshops with monthly bite-sized virtual sessions and quarterly face-to-face events, plus teambuilding activities to grow your confidence, build leadership skills and connect with people from across the business.
• The Early Careers Network run by graduates and apprentices like you, where you can share ideas, work together and get involved in exciting projects.
• A strong support network with our Early Careers team and colleagues ready to guide you, answer your questions and cheer you on.
• Support for your professional development with advice and resources to help you work towards your professional qualifications (e.g., IMechE chartership).

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• A degree in Project Management, Construction Management, Mathematics, or a related subject (or are due to graduate this year).
• Great communication skills and a willingness to learn.
• A collaborative approach and a drive to make a difference.
• A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel to project sites.

We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, including:

• 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 and adoption leave.
• Reward and recognition scheme.

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.