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Operational Surveyor
Job Posted: 13 hours ago
Salary: £ 46,000 - 52,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Essex
Expire in: a month
Job Description
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 water and wastewater capital project delivery team. Our teams deliver large-scale capital programmes aimed at keeping water infrastructure resilient for the long-term while protecting the environment.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
As our Operational Surveyor you'll surveying River Water Quality Monitor locations. You'll be determining suitable locations, whilst ensuring the water‑quality monitoring stations can be installed safely and efficiently. Once a site is verified, you'll be supporting the Installation and Maintenance teams.
Conduct detailed on‑site surveys of potential installation points, capturing topography, access routes, flood‑risk, utility interfaces and any environmental constraints.
Produce clear survey reports including recommendation for each candidate site, including risk‑assessment documentation.
Identify and flag health, safety or regulatory impediments early, feeding this information back to design and permitting teams.
Liaise with internal engineers, external stakeholders and landowners.
Working autonomously
Direct and coordinate Installation and Maintenance Teams of Section 82 monitoring equipment.
Translate survey recommendations into practical work‑plans and monitor progress against the project schedule.
Provide day‑to‑day guidance to the field teams, ensuring they work safely and to the highest quality standards.
Act as the first point of contact for technical or logistical issues in the field, devising quick, practical solutions to minimise downtime.
Conduct regular post‑installation audits to verify that stations meet technical specifications, safety protocols and regulatory requirements. You'll be working in all weather conditions and regularly travel to river sites across the Anglian Water Region.
What you'll bring
Do you have strong practical knowledge to assess installation feasibility, cable routing, conduit placement and equipment grounding?
Are you familiar with health, safety and environmental legislation relevant to river‑bank work?
Can you demonstrate success supervising field‑based installation or maintenance crews, driving teams to meet schedule, safety and quality targets?
Ability to translate survey recommendations into clear work‑packages, allocate labour, tools and materials, and monitor execution.
Skilled communicator who can give concise, on‑the‑spot direction, provide constructive feedback and produce clear status reports for management.
Are you resilient, organised and able to prioritise multiple sites and tasks while maintaining a high standard of workmanship?
Do you hold a valid driver’s licence and willingness to travel frequently to remote field locations? 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 schemeIn 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
Company van and fuel card for business use
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!
25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
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Personal Accident CoverAbout 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 lifeWhether 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.
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