SHEQ Manager

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. 

This offers a hybrid arrangement, covering substation projects across South Wales, Wiltshire & Oxfordshire so we're  looking for candidates based centrally to these locations. A visible presence on these sites is paramount so willingness to travel is essential! 

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

Are you passionate about delivering SHEQ strategy, driving a positive, incident‑free culture and continual improvement across the workforce? As a SHEQ Manager, you’ll partner with operational leaders, clients and the supply chain to embed right‑first‑time quality, environmental stewardship and wellbeing in everything we do!

Leadership & Oversight

• Provide visible, values‑led SHEQ leadership across operations, projects and contracts, setting clear expectations, influencing safe behaviours and holding teams to account.
• Lead and develop SHEQ teams, building capability and providing divisional governance to ensure consistent adherence to agreed terms of reference.
• Provide strategic advice to senior leaders to strengthen SHEQ management systems and embed agreed strategies, policies and initiatives across the business.
• Drive an incident‑free, continuously improving culture by preventing injury and work‑related ill health, avoiding service strikes, and reducing at‑fault traffic collisions.
• Embed right‑first‑time quality and environmental stewardship by leading non‑conformities, corrective actions and learning, and delivering decarbonisation and environmental risk controls.
• Ensure robust risk assessment and control for work in and around occupied commercial and residential properties, providing assurance that controls are effective and followed.

Governance & Compliance

• Assure legal and regulatory compliance, including UK Health & Safety legislation, CDM Regulations and high‑risk operational activities.
• Plan and deliver regional internal and second‑party audits, and support external audits and client assurance activities as required.
• Ensure SHEQ plans are in place and monitored for each sector/contract, supporting delivery of agreed objectives and client requirements.
• Oversee audit findings, inspections and compliance reviews, ensuring corrective actions are effectively tracked, completed and embedded.
• Coordinate divisional assurance, external accreditations and award submissions.
• Act as the senior escalation point for significant compliance issues, regulatory challenges or high‑impact findings.

Performance Management

• Monitor, analyse and report SHEQ performance (KPIs, trends and risk hotspots), identifying emerging risks and opportunities for improvement.
• Benchmark performance across the Division and share best practice and learning to drive consistent standards.
• Prepare consolidated divisional reports for leadership and clients, ensuring insight is accurate, timely and actionable.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the senior SHEQ representative for clients, regulators, external bodies and stakeholders, attending reviews, forums and strategic meetings.
• Build strong relationships with operational leaders, client teams, subcontractors and supply‑chain partners to strengthen SHEQ delivery.

Continuous Improvement & Culture

• Drive continuous improvement through identification of best practice, innovation, digitalisation and process optimisation across SHEQ function.
• Actively contribute to the development of It Starts With Me commitment to safety.
• Champion organisational initiatives focused on wellbeing, mental health, and sustainability, ensuring they are embedded into operational practice.
• Support development and continual enhancement of SHEQ tools, systems and processes to meet business needs effectively and efficiently.

Incident Management & Assurance

• Lead and oversee incident and near‑miss investigations, ensuring rigorous root cause analysis, effective corrective actions and shared learning.
• Escalate high‑potential incidents and significant risks to senior leadership, ensuring appropriate oversight and intervention.
• Ensure all learning from incidents is communicated across contracts, projects and the wider Division to prevent recurrence and enhance organisational resilience.

People Management

• Set clear expectations, review performance regularly and build capability across the team.
• Lead open, meaningful conversations about performance, development and potential.
• Manage conduct, capability, attendance and wellbeing consistently and with care.
• Create an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work.
• Identify and develop future talent, supporting succession planning.
• Plan resources and oversee recruitment, onboarding and retention.
• Drive high performance and innovation through continuous improvement in ways of working.

The post holder may be required to undertake other reasonable duties appropriate to the role and level. All activities must be performed in line with M Group policies, procedures and applicable standards.

What you’ll bring

Essential

• NEBOSH Diploma or NVQ Level 6 (or equivalent); Chartered IOSH (CMIOSH) or working towards.
• SHEQ leadership experience across multi‑site operations, providing visible, values‑led leadership.
• Proven experience leading, developing and motivating teams, balancing assurance with practical operational support.
• Strong incident investigation and root cause analysis capability, using data and insight to drive continual improvement.
• Strong analytical, reporting and Microsoft 365 skills to inform decision‑making and maintain high standards.
• Clear, confident communicator, able to influence senior leaders, directors and clients and challenge poor performance constructively.
• Resilient and adaptable, with the ability to manage competing priorities across multiple contracts and changing business needs.
• Able to work autonomously, taking ownership and responding proactively to operational requirements and emerging risks.

Desirable

• Project, programme or leadership qualifications.
• Lead Auditor certification(s).
• Demonstrated expertise in ISO 45001, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 management systems.
• Wellbeing qualification (e.g. NEBOSH Wellbeing).
• Experience in large‑scale infrastructure, substation, utilities or complex operational environments.
• Experience using digital safety, performance or analytics platforms.
• Evidence of flexibility, drive and tenacity in delivering objectives and supporting wider business performance.

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
• 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 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 3^rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.