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?
M Group Highways
At M Group Highways, we're supporting the safe transportation and movement of people across the UK.
We don't just build roads and bridges- we're building a better future, creating lasting social value that gives back to the communities in which we work.
You'll be joining our Highways maintenance team, as the UK's number one highway maintenance contractor, our teams use the latest innovations to create effective solutions. We offer a range of services including planned and reactive maintenance and highway improvement schemes.
Want to come and be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
- Support the preparation of accurate cost estimates and project budgets from early feasibility to final account, helping maintain strong financial control and value for money.
- Assist with contract documentation, tendering activities, negotiating terms, and the professional administration of contracts alongside senior team members.
- Help manage subcontract payments by checking, processing, and assessing applications in line with contractual requirements.
- Contribute to preparing and submitting Client claims through the CPA, ensuring clear evidence and cost backup for transparent, accurate reporting.
- Support identification of project risks and contribute to procurement activities, including preparing tender documents and evaluating supplier proposals, helping keep projects on budget, on programme, and compliant.
- Work closely with experienced colleagues, gaining hands‑on learning while contributing your own insight to the team.
- As your experience grows, help support junior team members and contribute to a collaborative, high‑performing project environment.
What you'll bring
- Hold an HND, HNC, or degree in Quantity Surveying, Civil Engineering, or a related field, with professional accreditation such as MRICS or CICES being advantageous.
- Bring experience from civil engineering, rail, aviation, defence, or other safety‑critical environments, enabling confident contribution within complex project settings.
- Confidently use cost management systems (ideally Causeway) and Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, with strong analytical, communication, and negotiation skills to support commercial activities and build effective relationships.
- Receive a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package that recognises and rewards your contribution and supports your wellbeing.
- Gain opportunities to work on major, high‑profile projects that develop your skills and support long‑term career progression.
- Join an inclusive team culture built on diversity, respect, and collaboration, valuing the perspectives each person brings.
- Work within a company guided by core values of Health & Safety, Service Delivery, Investing in People, and Integrity, ensuring consistent excellence.
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;
- 28days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us
- Holiday purchase scheme
- 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 are 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.
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