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.
Our business delivers end-to-end energy infrastructure across Transmission, Distribution, EV and Home Decarbonisation. From building substations up to 400kV and maintaining networks, to enabling EV charging and supporting Net Zero, we play a key role in powering sustainable communities. Join us and be part of delivering essential infrastructure services for life.
This role will be a Environment & Sustainability Manager as part of our SHEQ team.
Want to come and be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As the Environment & Sustainability Manager, you're role will be based in Scotland.
You'll lead environment and sustainability across the region, driving measurable improvements and embedding environmental excellence in operations.
Ensuring compliance with legislation and the Environmental Management System, and you will lead assurance activities including audits, incident investigations and corrective actions.
You'll lead, develop and resource-plan a team of Environmental Advisers and Sustainability Advisers, building capability, training and best practice. Working closely with senior leaders, operational teams, clients and regulators, we'll ask you to communicate performance, risks and opportunities and drive cross-contract collaboration.
In this role you will identify and champion innovations and digital solutions, developing business cases that deliver long-term value. You will also support work winning, business development and contract mobilisation by providing critical environmental inputs.
*Please note this is only a job advert, not all key responsibilities our outlined. A full job specification can be provided.
What you’ll bring
- Degree (or equivalent) in Environmental Management, Environmental Science, Sustainability or a related discipline, plus Chartered membership of ISEP (or equivalent), e.g., CEnv / CISEP (or working towards).
- Experience of delivering works granted by planning permission or Section 37 agreement.
- ISO 14001 Internal Auditor qualification (or equivalent environmental management system/auditing experience).
- At least 5 years proven environmental leadership/management experience within large‑scale construction, infrastructure, highways or utilities, including leading multi‑disciplinary teams across multiple projects or contracts.
- Strategic, analytical and commercially aware, able to use data and risk analysis to make evidence‑based decisions and translate strategy into practical delivery.
- Values‑led people leader with experience developing teams, holding others to account and driving continual improvement.
- Clear, credible communicator able to influence senior leaders, clients, regulators and operational teams, building trusted relationships and improving environmental performance and culture.
- Experience supporting work winning and mobilisation activities, including tender responses, presentations and bid inputs.
- Strong organisational, planning and project management skills, able to manage competing priorities and deliver to deadlines.
- Approachable coaching style, able to respond to technical queries from operational teams.
- Full UK driving licence.
- Willingness to travel to various locations with regular overnight stays.
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;
- Matched or 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
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
- Fuel card for business use
- Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
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 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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