General Foreman in Glasgow

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 the safe and efficient delivery of site activities in line with the approved programme and construction methodology.
• You’ll lead and coordinate multiple work fronts, including civils, tunnelling interfaces, and trunk main installation, providing clear direction to subcontractors to maintain productivity and quality.
• Your role also includes inspecting and auditing site works to ensure high standards are consistently met.
• You’ll champion a zero-harm safety culture by ensuring full compliance with CDM regulations, permits, RAMS, and safe systems of work.
• This includes managing high-risk activities such as deep excavations, shafts, confined spaces, lifting operations, temporary works, and tunnelling interfaces.
• You’ll ensure robust environmental controls are in place, covering groundwater management, pollution prevention, waste segregation, and noise and dust mitigation.
• Quality delivery will be supported through ITPs, inspections, hold points, and effective defect management.
• You’ll be working closely with the site agent, to develop and manage short-term and weekly look-ahead programmes, coordinating labour, plant, materials, logistics, and subcontractors.
• You’ll oversee subcontractor performance, lead site briefings and coordination meetings, and set clear expectations that drive accountability and collaboration.
• You’ll support the development of engineers and supervisors through mentoring and on-the-job coaching, while promoting continuous improvement through lessons learned and best-practice sharing.

What you’ll bring?

• Do you have experience of water or wastewater infrastructure?
• Have you got street works experience?
• Do you have SMSTS and Water Hygiene?
• Have you got a good understanding of Temporary Works requirements & TWS?
• Do you hold First Aid and a CSCS Gold Card?
• Do you have a Thames Water Passport?

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
• 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 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.