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.
M Group Water (Infrastructure) are currently looking to recruit a SHEQ Advisor to work on our Thames Water Capital Delivery Civils programme, primarily travelling 3-4 days per week at fixed sites across South London / Bexley area, providing Health, Safety and Environmental support to our operational teams. You will be working on a mixture of large scale and small scale projects.
This role is a full-time, area-based role requiring travel to various fixed sites across South London and Bexley, so a full UK driving licence coupled with willingness to travel to multiple sites is required.
You will naturally be a highly organised, efficient and multitasking individual who is keen to be part of a vibrant team that wants to make a difference.
As a SHEQ Advisor you will be a key part in our SHEQ team who provide expert advice, assistance and guidance with regards to the management of health, safety and environmental issues.
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?
- You will be the nominated H&S support to multiple sites and be able to build working relationships with the site management to best support health and safety on site.
- Assist and advise the operational team on a range of specialist areas, e.g. risk assessments, construction hazards and mitigation, CDM regulations, safe excavation, people plant interface, hazardous substances, noise and machinery.
- Monitor direct employees and sub-contractors via site inspection and management audits
- Coach best practice and drive continual improvements
- Support incident management, conduct on site investigation and prepare incident reports
- Present inductions, toolbox talks, team talks and appropriate SHE training materials about health, safety and environmental issues and risks
- Consistently demonstrate high standards of safety behaviour, leading by example and promoting a positive safety culture
- Act as a role model in support of the M Group visions, priorities and values
What you’ll bring (5 bullets - no more than 75 words)
- NEBOSH Construction or General certificate
- Previous experience as a Environmental Quality Safety / SHEQ Advisor in a construction environment, with preference towards civil engineering and / or utility projects (applications from Rail, Gas, Electric, Civils, Construction welcomed).
- Extensive knowledge and experience implementing CDM Regulations
- Ability to coach / encourage improvements to safety practices, procedures, attitudes, and raise awareness.
- Full driving licence and willingness to travel
- IOSH Membership - preferable
- Environmental Qualifications – desirable
- Temporary works and / or appointed persons experience – desirable.
- You should have excellent communication skills, the ability to work collaboratively, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Ability to manage potential conflict during site inspections with operational teams
- Capable of delivering confident articulate presentations
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
- 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 are 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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