Project Engineer

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 Project Engineer role sits 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. 

It is a HYBRID working role that will see you work from and based out of our Sidcup office, and travel to various sites across the London / Thames Valley region.

Want to be a part of it?

What will you be doing? 

• Interpret engineering designs, specifications and drawings to support safe and efficient project delivery.
• Provide technical solutions to construction challenges and ensure works comply with client, regulatory and company standards.
• Coordinate and support the delivery of MEICA (Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation) activities.
• Review technical designs and collaborate with designers, subcontractors and suppliers to resolve engineering issues.
• Produce and review RAMS, manage site permits and ensure safe systems of work are maintained.
• Lead site briefings, toolbox talks, progress meetings and design coordination meetings.
• Champion quality assurance through inspections, audits, test plans and technical documentation management.
• Monitor project progress, maintain engineering records and provide technical support on risks, variations and commercial matters.

What you’ll bring 

• Experience delivering projects within the water industry, ideally clean water, with a good understanding of water or wastewater infrastructure.
• A background in MEICA (Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control and Automation) projects, with the ability to coordinate both mechanical and electrical aspects of project delivery.
• Experience producing and reviewing RAMS, managing permits and ensuring safe systems of work are followed on site.
• The ability to review technical design drawings and specifications, and work closely with designers and lead site progress, coordination and toolbox meetings.

• A strong understanding of quality assurance processes and documentation and working knowledge of HSE regulations and industry best practice.

• Experience of developing ITPs, managing quality processes, and verifying compliance?
• Relevant site-based qualifications such as SMSTS/SSSTS, CSCS, EUSR Water Hygiene, NRSWA or Temporary Works certification are desirable.

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 1000’s 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 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.

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