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.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As a Site Engineer, you'll bring strong technical expertise in setting out and surveying for clean water trunk main projects, with the ability to interpret construction drawings, specifications, and technical documentation accurately. You'll have experience coordinating a range of installation activities including trenching, pipe laying, thrust boring, directional drilling, valve installations, washouts, air valves, and associated civil engineering works.
We'll need you to be confident managing construction activities on site, ensuring all works are delivered in line with design requirements, project specifications, and Thames Water standards. With excellent problem-solving skills, you'll work collaboratively with design teams and project management to resolve engineering challenges and support key activities such as commissioning, pressure testing, chlorination, sampling, and network integration.
A keen eye for quality is essential, with the ability to maintain accurate site records, inspection and test plans (ITPs), quality documentation, and as-built information. You'll be experienced in carrying out material inspections, managing non-conformances, and implementing corrective actions to ensure the highest standards are achieved.
Most importantly, you'll champion a strong health, safety, and environmental culture. You'll have a thorough understanding of CDM Regulations, Water Industry standards, RAMS, and site-specific risk assessments, using this knowledge to ensure compliance, conduct inspections and audits, deliver toolbox talks, and minimise environmental impacts on customers, watercourses, and local communities.
What you’ll bring
- Do you hold a HNC/HND or Degree in Civil Engineering or a related discipline?
- Have you got previous experience delivering water infrastructure projects. Preferably clean water trunk mains?
- Do you have knowledge of water industry standards and utility construction practices?
- Have you got experience with setting out equipment, surveying techniques, and interpretation of engineering drawings?
- Do you have an understanding of pressure testing, chlorination, and commissioning processes?
- Have you got a full clean driving licence?
- Do you hold a CSCS Card, SMSTS or SSSTS?
- Do you have a EUSR Water Hygiene Card?
- Have you got the following accreditations (these are desirable):
- First Aid at Work
- NRSWA Supervisor
- Temporary Works Co-Ordinator
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.
