At a Glance
- Tasks: Conduct field inspections to identify and validate lead service pipes and high-risk assets.
- Company: Join a leading infrastructure company focused on water supply and environmental performance.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, pension scheme, health care cash plan, and retail discounts.
- Other info: Opportunities for career growth and development in a diverse and inclusive workplace.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on essential infrastructure while working in a supportive and fun environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in water utilities and strong skills in reading utility records are essential.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 65000 £ per year.
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 you’ll 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 you'll be doing?
You’ll be responsible for identifying and validating the presence of lead service pipes and associated high-risk assets within the public and private realm. The role requires strong utilities knowledge, accurate interpretation of statutory utility records (STATS), and field-based inspection to support compliance, asset management, and risk mitigation programmes. You’ll carry out on-site inspections to determine the material of underground and above-ground water services, with a focus on identifying lead pipes and interpret and accurately read STATS plans, historic utility records, as-built drawings, and GIS data. We’ll need you to identify, prioritise, and record high-risk assets based on asset condition, material, location, and customer risk profiles along with using approved validation methods (e.g. visual inspection, scratch tests where permitted, record-based validation, internal inspections).
What you’ll bring
- Proven experience in water utilities, asset validation, surveying within the field, including ground works within utilities.
- Experience reading and interpreting STATS and underground utility records.
- A strong understanding of underground services, service layouts, and asset risk classification.
- Good IT skills, including the use of mobile data capture systems and basic GIS platforms.
- A strong attention to detail with accurate record-keeping and reporting.
- A confident communicator with a professional approach when engaging with customers and stakeholders.
- The ability to work independently and manage field-based workloads effectively.
- A valid UK driving licence and willingness to carry out site-based inspections in varied areas around London and Greater London.
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 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 van/vehicle and fuel card for business use
- Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy
- 21 days plus bank holiday, rising to 25 days with service
- Opportunity for overtime
- 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’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.
Field Surveyor employer: M Group
As a Supervisor in our dynamic team, you'll thrive in a supportive and inclusive work culture that prioritises safety and client satisfaction. We offer robust opportunities for professional growth and development, ensuring that every employee can advance their career while contributing to essential infrastructure services. Join us in a friendly and respectful environment where your contributions are valued and celebrated.
