Civil Site Team Leader in Suffolk

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 our Civil Site Team Leader within our Construction Team, you will supervise projects from inception to completion on our Anglian Water contract based in Colchester. Working under the Site Manager, you will manage day-to-day site operations, leading delivery teams and sub-contractors to ensure works are completed safely, on programme and within budget across multiple concurrent projects. You'll be accountable for SHEQ performance, implementing and monitoring health, safety, environmental, quality and performance standards. This includes completing and recording SHEQ inspections, toolbox talks, risk assessments, method statements, personal health and safety checks and MTRAs. You will drive positive safety culture, ensure near misses are reported, and promote waste reduction through efficient working practices and recycling initiatives. You'll coordinate with suppliers, specialist sub-contractors and internal teams, attend progress and review meetings, and monitor legislative, programme and SHEA compliance. You'll ensure welfare facilities are maintained, all personnel are suitably trained and qualified, and that all corporate, SHEQ and business briefings and inductions are delivered, recorded and retained correctly.

What you’ll bring

• Knowledge and experience in the water industry.
• Certificate in Site Safety Management (or attended 5-day course).
• Trained and experienced in Civil Installations in the construction industry.
• Effective manager of sub-contractors, able to influence client judgement.
• Basic Management training, skills & experience, with a good understanding of legislative and corporate SHEQ / Industry / Legal requirements.
• Comprehensive IT abilities including MS Suite, alongside good Project and programme management skills.
• Good communicator, able to communicate detailed data to a non-data literate audience and pass on skills.

The role will be site-based, requiring regular communication together with other members of the construction and delivery team based in our local office.

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 van and fuel card for business use.
• Private health care single 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.

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 are 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, we may close job adverts before the stated closing date. We’d encourage you to 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 our hiring process. Some of our roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of our induction.