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?
As our Assistant Project Manager you’ll be supporting the successful delivery of multi-million-pound clean water, raw water, and wastewater capital projects under AMP8, this role works closely with the Senior Project Manager to ensure projects are effectively coordinated from design through to construction and completion. You’ll track progress against programme milestones, manage project documentation, maintain action trackers and risk registers, and ensure clear communication across design, commercial, and delivery teams.
Acting as a central point of coordination, you’ll proactively follow up on actions, identify and escalate risks or delays, and support planning, procurement, construction, and commissioning activities. Working closely with site teams, subcontractors, and stakeholders, including Southern Water, you’ll help maintain continuity between office-based planning and on-site delivery while ensuring projects remain on track, within programme requirements, and aligned with operational priorities.
The role also supports cost tracking, forecasting, quality assurance, compliance, and stakeholder reporting. Regular site visits will provide visibility of project progress and enable effective issue resolution. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly organised and proactive project professional looking to play a key role in delivering essential water infrastructure projects while driving collaboration, performance, and successful project outcomes.
What you’ll bring
- CSCS Card (appropriate level).
- EUSR Water Hygiene Card
- SMSTS
- Health and Safety training or recognised certification such as NEBOSH or similar
- Understanding of Temporary Works requirements
- Experience in a project coordination, assistant project management, or similar role within construction or infrastructure.
- Strong organisational and administrative skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Experience working on multi-disciplinary projects involving design, construction, and commissioning teams.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Proactive approach to tracking actions and resolving issues.
- Good understanding of project delivery processes and lifecycle.
- NRSWA
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;
- 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
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
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 – single cover
- 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
- 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’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.
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