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 General Foreman, your key responsibility will be supporting the Site Manager 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.
- Provide Technical governance on your allocated project and the wider business
- Lead by example on health, safety, quality, and compliance through site visits and inspections
- Ensure QA checks and ITP hold points are met (minimum 10% of works)
- Promote and report SCRs/SORs weekly
- Attend monthly safety calls and assist with investigations
- Provide technical input and safe delivery solutions for bids
- Attend site walkovers and support tender development
- Supply resource/productivity data and accurate plant requirements
- Support Site Manager in coordinating resources and ensuring compliance
- Develop and maintain project documentation (RAMS, TWDBs, IVPs)
- Ensure teams follow latest project documents and safety procedures
- Act as Task Allocator and MEWP/Telehandler Coordinator
- Attend site meetings and manage client documentation
- Liaise with Design team on construction methods and changes
- Support innovation trials and attend design meetings
- Specify and manage plant/equipment needs (F2s/F4s)
- Collaborate on equipment trials and feedback
- Track actual vs. planned durations and support replanning
- Encourage team development and assist with PDRs
- Perform additional duties to meet business and client needs
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.
