Technical Lead Remote work in Preston

Whatever stage you're at in your career, with us you'll have an opportunity to grow and develop. 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.

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.

As our Technical Lead, you'll be responsible for providing technical authority, assurance, and leadership across water and wastewater projects delivered by M Group Water. The role ensures that all technical solutions are safe, compliant, cost-effective, and fit for purpose, meeting client, regulatory, and M Group Water governance requirements throughout the project lifecycle.

You'll act as the key technical interface between clients, designers, operations, and other M Group Water internal functions, supporting successful delivery across the frameworks. You'll act as the technical authority for clean water, wastewater, and multifunctional assets, providing leadership to engineers, designers, and technical specialists while ensuring compliance with client standards and M Group Water governance.

You'll champion safety-by-design, fulfil Principal Designer duties under CDM 2015, and ensure compliance with health, safety, environmental, and quality systems, while managing technical risk and resolving complex issues. You'll provide technical support to project planning, cost, change control, and client engagement.

As a primary technical contact for clients, you'll build strong relationships with stakeholders, promote best practice and standardisation, encourage innovation and digital engineering, and mentor and develop technical staff. This role will involve travel in the South of England.

What you'll bring:

• A degree (or equivalent) in an engineering or scientific discipline (e.g., Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, or Process Engineering).
• Significant UK water and wastewater engineering experience.
• Strong knowledge of water industry standards and governance.
• Knowledge of construction, NRSWA, CDM 2015, H&S, and process safety.
• Safety-focused and quality-driven.
• Collaborative, client-focused, with commercial awareness.

Benefits:

• 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 family cover.
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Discretionary bonus scheme.

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're responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet.

Whether you're a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.