Closing date: 31 October 2025
Cardiff/Bristol
Planning, Programme Management
Energy
Hybrid
Competitive plus benefits

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Planning Manager - Substations

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?

At M Group Energy we’re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.
We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.

This role will be within our Transmission & Renewables team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.

Want to come and be a part of it?

Where will you be working?

M Group are recruiting for a Planning Manager for our Substations department within the South West/South Wales area. This role is client facing, so a willingness to travel is a must.

You’ll be managing the production of robust and detailed programmes for all works associated with the design, procurement and construction phases of our substation projects, ensuring the team liaise with the Project/Construction Manager and Site Engineers to ensure that the programme keeps abreast of any changes.

You’ll be managing and coordinating the production of detailed trackers that can substantiate progress measurements on a regular basis and retain these for analysis on future bids.

Mentor and support less experienced members of the planning team on the technical aspects of programming.

What will you be doing?

Are you a skilled planner with a passion for creating and improving construction schedules?

Your expertise will be vital to our success! We’re looking for someone who excels at managing resources and subcontractors and who enjoys being involved in every stage of the project, working closely with the site delivery team and attending client meetings, from initial planning to final handover.

In this role, you will also collaborate with our bid team, offering your planning expertise to make our bids competitive and accurate.

Your ability to collect benchmarking data for value assessments and manage risk, issue, and opportunity registers will be highly valued.

If you are passionate about exploring new planning techniques and technologies and can lead a change agenda for business improvement, we’d love to have you on our team!

What you’ll bring
- Proven experience in planning major projects within a high voltage environment
- Knowledge and experience with national grid substations · Experience managing a team
- Experience working with P6 primavera
- Experience with NEC contracts
- A full UK Driving licence
- Able to collaborate, influence and deal with people at all levels including Executive Directors.
- Proven track-record of delivering change and implementing strategic initiatives.
What’s in it for you?
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
- Car Allowance
- Private health care and health care cash plan
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, 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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