Dig Team Leader

The Role

You’ll be responsible for leading a team, coordinating daily activities to support water meter installations, maintenance, and replacement works. From planning and supervising digs to ensuring safety compliance and quality reinstatement, you’ll take ownership of getting the job done right — first time, every time.

• Plan and oversee daily excavation and reinstatement works to access and install water meters.
• Lead by example on site safety, ensuring all works comply with Clancy and Affinity Water’s health, safety, and environmental standards.
• Carry out safe excavations in both public highways and private properties.
• Ensure reinstatement is completed to specification, maintaining high standards of workmanship.
• Liaise with supervisors, planners, and customers to communicate progress and resolve any on‑site challenges.
• Complete required documentation accurately and on time, including site records.
• Support, train, and mentor team members to develop skills and maintain positive team performance.

You have previous experience as a Team Leader, with a good all‑round knowledge and understanding of smart metering and the water industry. You’ll already have hands‑on experience working within utilities, ideally in water or metering, and be confident managing excavation activities and small teams.

You’ll hold a full, clean UK driving licence and have an NRSWA qualification (units 1–6 as a minimum). Experience and qualification in underground service detection using tools such as CAT and Genny is essential, along with a strong awareness of health and safety practices.

We’re looking for someone who takes pride in their work, has excellent organisational and communication skills, and can remain calm and professional when managing multiple priorities. Your ability to lead by example and maintain high safety and quality standards will be key to your success in this role.

Every day we work smarter, greener and use our imaginations.

Our purpose at Clancy is simple - we make life better for everyone’s growing families. We play a vital role in providing fresh drinking water and power to millions of homes and businesses and so much more.

We are one of the biggest family owned construction businesses in the UK and we care about our people, our clients and the environment.

You apply, and we respond within two weeks (we know how annoying it is not to hear anything back)! If you don’t receive feedback within that timescale, please don’t be afraid to chase us - one of our values is to do what we say we will do!

In addition to helping you reach your career goals, a competitive salary, pension, healthcare and holiday allowance starting at 22 days per annum, we also offer perks including Clancy Xtras, our employee benefits programme with discounts for numerous well‑known retailers such as Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Currys PC World and Vue Cinemas, cycle to work scheme as well as an Employee Assistance Programme.