Highway Supervisor

Location: Witchford

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?
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?  

You'll deliver the services in line with contract requirements and to the satisfaction of the client and their customers
Are you organised? You'll ensure all work allocated is appropriately programmed, planned, supervised, and executed in accordance with specifications, drawings, dimensions and within agreed commercial limits
You'll focus on operational gross margins of all work that you are delivering, from the pre-works planning stage, to on site supervision - through effective management.
You'll be responsible for the day-to-day Health & Safety of directly employed staff and Supply Chain Partners and deliver tool box talks
You'll ensure all work carried out is in accordance with local operational procedures and M Group Highways policies by ensuring instructions have target cost/and or job code and that any changes to work requests are formally recorded and coded
You'll agree, set and monitor performance objectives in terms of time, cost, safety and quality programme
Are you a leader? You'll provide training, development and encouragement to staff and operatives to ensure all works are fully resourced
You'll manage all vehicles and plant used in the depot.
Do you enjoy sharing knowledge? You'll support development and mentoring of the apprentices
You'll be involved in Emergency and Winter Maintenance.

What you'll bring:

You'll need experience in construction delivery and workforce supervision
You'll be commercially driven to be able to capture working cost efficiencies, cost control and saving money where possible for the benefit of the client and M Group Highways
You'll need experience within the highway maintenance industry, or have CSCS, NRSWA and SSSTS/SMSTS.
Have you previously been a team manager? You'll provide leadership, motivational and influencing skills to get the best from everyone
Are you IT literate? You'll need general IT skills, ideally in Microsoft Office products
You'll drive excellent relationships with contacts at all levels – from the client to colleagues and contacts across the wider Milestone company
Can you remain flexible? You'll need this approach in the role whilst embracing change and helping to drive that change through the wider teams and through into the delivery

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
28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Standby / Overtime / Call out
Personal accident cover
Holiday purchase scheme
Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!  

About us
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