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 with 3 days in the Annesley office / site visits & 2 days working remotely.  

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

We’re looking for a Planning Manager to join our growing team and help deliver complex Overhead Lines projects.

As a Planning Manager, you’ll play a key role in developing and implementing project programmes that meet client expectations and KPIs. You’ll manage P6 schedules, produce progress trackers, and collaborate with Project Managers to embed a strong planning culture across the business.

This role involves integrating cost management systems for CPI/SPI reporting, attending site and client meetings, and providing planning input at tender stage. We’re looking for someone who champions programme management standards and promotes safety and integrity. Compliance with ISO and OHSAS standards is essential.

Are you a strategic thinker with the ability to motivate a team? You’ll manage a team of Planners and Senior Planners, offering support and development to encourage achievement and drive continuous improvement.

What you’ll bring

•  Significant project management experience gained with the Construction Industry
• Knowledge of the OHL industry & Electrical Transmission experience
• Detailed understanding of cost loading & comprehensive understanding of forms of contacts and methods of measurement
• Contract law NEC 3 & 4 in relation to change control
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience of construction management systems and procedures
• Full UK Driving licence and willingness to travel nationally
• Relationship building and influencing
• Financial Appreciation
• Project management / people management
• Business analysis / business process re-engineering

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
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

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