About The Role 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 demand management and network infrastructure team. We look after 60 million meters and our teams provide advanced metering solutions to help manage demand for essential suppliers. Want to be a part of it? What will you be doing? As our SHEQ Advisor, you'll play a vital role in supporting multiple Thames Water Retail contracts from our Dartford base. Working closely with operational teams, you’ll help ensure works are delivered safely, compliantly, and to high environmental and quality standards, promoting a strong and proactive safety culture. This is a predominantly field-based role, with around 75% of your time spent on-site providing direct operational support. The remaining 25% will involve administrative tasks such as preparing reports, reviewing documentation, and coordinating with the wider team—completed either in the office or remotely with prior approval. Key duties include carrying out regular site inspections, submitting timely inspection reports, and reviewing and approving RAMS to ensure compliance with M Group Water standards. You’ll provide practical guidance to supervisors and operatives, helping drive continuous safety improvements. You’ll lead incident and accident investigations, identifying root causes and producing detailed reports with preventative recommendations. You’ll also manage monthly KPI reporting, analyse trends, maintain accurate SHEQ records, and support the SHEQ Manager with compliance activities. Additionally, you’ll deliver project inductions, support SHEQ communications, lead accident‑prevention initiatives, facilitate drug and alcohol testing, engage with the HSE, assist with external audits, and actively encourage near‑miss reporting and quality assurance across all teams. What you’ll bring - Do you have a NEBOSH General or Construction Certificate? - Do you hold valid certifications, such as Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) Card, EUSR SHEA Gas/Power, and/or EUSR Water Hygiene? - Have you gained comprehensive understanding of UK health and safety legislation, best practices, and environmental regulations? - Do you have knowledge of the water industry, including temporary works, street works, and underground utility services? - Are you familiar with occupational health risk environments, such as utility service avoidance? - Can you deliver engaging and effective training sessions, toolbox talks, and safety briefings? - Support the Operational and SHEQ Teams following investigations that may have highlighted an assurance check on a part of the business where the competency minimum standards have fallen below expectations. Assist with a plan to raise the levels back to the required standard for Morrison Water Services and Thames Water. 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 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 - Health Care Cash Plan, giving you the ability to claim back medical expenses for things like dental, eyecare and physiotherapy and much more! - Discretionary bonus scheme - 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 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding. MGroupW