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 Overhead Lines 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?
What will you be doing?
As a Foreman, your key responsibility will be supporting the General Foreman in the safe and efficient delivery of Transmission projects. You’ll coordinate site teams, plant, equipment and daily activities to ensure works are completed to programme, specification and client requirements. You’ll take the lead on site-level safety, quality and productivity, working closely with project teams, subcontractors, clients and internal departments to resolve issues, maintain progress and drive good operational performance.
- Lead by example showing a positive safety culture and encourage behaviours to prevent harm to people. Maintain the highest possible standards.
- Confirm that the team are adhering to the relevant work instructions (WI) and risk assessments (RA) as supplied in site safe work pack (SSWP).
- Undertake Safety Conversations Reports (SCR) on site with M Group and sub-contracted staff. Including Daily “Blue Hat Chats” with lesser experienced persons.
- Report all incidents, accidents and shortfalls in H&S, Quality & Environmental immediately to the General Foreman or Site Manager.
- Monitor sites and record monitoring to satisfy yourself that all environmental measures are understood with appropriate controls are in place.
- Monitor overall quality of works and satisfy yourself that your Chargehands are ensuring robust inspections of workmanship are completed before signing off each QA record.
- Ensure all teams are visited daily and this is recorded on the PASS for each separate visit.
- Ensure people issues (including disciplinary measures) are dealt with effectively using informal and formal procedures as appropriate.
- Carry out task allocation briefings each day, ensuring your chargehands are aware of roles and responsibilities and known hazards are highlighted for each site to be worked on.
- Optimise team sizes by allocating the correct number of staff for the task. Adopt a flexible approach to teams without jeopardising safety.
- Capture and record all holiday requests and manage attendance as required to maintain productivity. ‘Optimise’ holiday requests where a shortfall would occur.
- Check your Chargehands are maintaining an up-to-date site safe work pack (SSWP), accessible to their teams.
- Check required QA records are fully completed (i.e., no empty boxes where they should be filled), signed correctly and provided to the Engineer by your Chargehands.
- Check your Chargehands are accurately recording all team time and attendance, particularly lateness and unauthorised absence. Check sickness is being reported via Empactis.
- Strive for excellence, challenge ourselves, and embrace opportunities to grow.
What you’ll bring
- Ability to schedule a programme of work in a safe & efficient manner
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Understanding of the principles of CDM
- Overhead Line design knowledge
- Knowledge & practical experience of working under clients’ Safety Rules
- Ability to operate a broad range of plant & equipment required on Transmission & Distribution projects
- Significant experience of managing teams / gangs / working parties engaged in Transmission and / or Distribution overhead line projects
- Extensive experience of working/Managing ‘wiring’ gangs for a minimum of 5 years
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 vehicle and fuel card for business use
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Weekend Overtime
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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