Technical Lead
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Role Overview
The Technical Lead will provide technical authority, assurance, and leadership across water and wastewater capital projects.
The role covers clean water, wastewater, and multifunctional assets delivered through large-scale infrastructure programmes.
The position involves travel in the South of England.
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Role overview
The Technical Lead will provide technical authority, assurance, and leadership across water and wastewater capital projects.
The role covers clean water, wastewater, and multifunctional assets delivered through large-scale infrastructure programmes.
The position involves travel in the South of England.
Key responsibilities
- Ensure technical solutions are safe, compliant, cost-effective, and fit for purpose throughout the project lifecycle.
- Act as the key technical interface between clients, designers, operations, and internal functions.
- Lead and approve early contractor involvement, feasibility, optioneering, and detailed design.
- Chair design reviews and technical gateways.
- Fulfil Principal Designer duties under CDM 2015 and champion safety by design.
- Manage technical risk and resolve complex issues while supporting planning, cost, change control, and client engagement.
- Mentor technical staff and promote best practice, standardisation, innovation, and digital engineering.
What you will bring
- A degree or equivalent in an engineering or scientific discipline, such as civil, mechanical, electrical, or process engineering.
- Significant UK water and wastewater engineering experience.
- Strong knowledge of water industry standards and governance.
- Proven multidisciplinary technical leadership.
- Excellent communication and technical reporting skills.
- Knowledge of construction, NRSWA, CDM 2015, health and safety, and process safety.
- A safety-focused, quality-driven, proactive, solutions-oriented, collaborative, and client-focused approach.
Benefits
- Contributory pension, life assurance, private healthcare, a health care cash plan, and an employee assistance programme are offered.
- Benefits include a company car and fuel card, annual leave, a discretionary bonus scheme, and retail discounts.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave and cycle-to-work and salary-finance schemes are available.
About M Group Water
M Group Water delivers water and wastewater infrastructure services and capital programmes focused on resilience, compliance, and environmental performance.
The organisation promotes responsible, open, collaborative, and ambitious ways of working.
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