SHE 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?

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.

Want to be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

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.

As our capital SHE Manager, you will provide safety leadership across capital projects, setting consistent standards. You will manage the Health & Safety team on the contract through effective mentoring, while overseeing audits, inspections, performance reviews and ensuring all corrective actions are closed out promptly. You’ll monitor SHE metrics to spot trends, emerging risks and opportunities for improvement, reporting key insights directly to the Regional SHE lead.

You'll take ownership of significant incident investigations, ensuring robust root cause analysis and clear, actionable learning outcomes. By actively sharing best practice and lessons learned across the contract, you’ll champion a culture of continuous improvement, safety excellence and proactive risk management. You will play a critical role in maintaining a safe, compliant and high-performing operational environment.

What you’ll bring

• Highly developed SHE management skills regarding stakeholder engagement
• Demonstrable experience of recognised best practice, risk management techniques and management principles.
• Collaborative, but able to challenge constructively when standards are not met.
• Ability to demonstrate flexibility/versatility combined with initiative, drive and tenacity to deliver objectives.
• NEBOSH Diploma or NVQ Level 6 in Occupational Health & Safety, and holds or working towards CMIOSH.
• Proven experience in SHE management within large-scale infrastructure.
• Full clean Driving Licence and willingness to travel extensively across the zone

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
• Company van/vehicle and fuel card for business use - only if it's a requirement listed on the advert
• Health Care Cash Plan, giving you and your family the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more!
• Private Healthcare - family cover
• 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.

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