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.

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? 

Working across the Thames Water Capital Delivery Framework. You'll provide advanced technical and leadership support across contracts, bridging the gap between SHE Advisors and the SHE Manager. The role focuses on complex risk management, assurance activity, mentoring Advisors, and deputising for the SHE Manager where required. All while remaining operationally focused and visible on site. You'll enhance delivery capability by retaining high-level technical expertise within the advisory layer, without full people or contract management accountability.

In this role, you’ll be responsible for ensuring legal compliance, reducing operational risk, promoting safe behaviours, and enabling projects to be delivered safely and sustainably. Key responsibilities include providing senior-level SHE advice across complex, high-risk, or multiple utility and water contracts. You'll lead on complex SHE risk topics such as confined spaces, temporary works interfaces, lifting operations, excavations, and work near or over water. You'll also act as an escalation point for SHE Advisors on technical, behavioural, or compliance matters.

Further duties include leading and coordinating contract-level assurance activities. Including audits, themed inspections, and deep-dive reviews—while coaching and mentoring SHE Advisors to build capability and consistency. You’ll be responsible for leading investigations into high-potential incidents and serious near misses, ensuring robust root cause analysis and organisational learning. The role also involves representing the SHE function at contract and client meetings where required. Supporting the implementation of divisional SHE initiatives, campaigns, and improvement plans.

• Do you have a NEBOSH Construction Certificate as a minimum with Diploma / NVQ level 5/6 in Occupational H&S?
• Have you gained experience as a SHE advisor within Civil engineering with preference towards water or gas utility works (main lay experience desirable)?
• Temporary Works Awareness or Coordinator training.
• Environmental management awareness (IEMA Certificate or equivalent).
• Proven experience leading audits, investigations, and assurance activity.
• High credibility with operational teams and client stakeholders.
• Do you have a valid clean driving licence?
• Do you have knowledge of CDM regulations 2015 and the practical application?

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 for you plus health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
  
• Personal Accident Cover

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.

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