Operative
| Posting date: | 28 July 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £27,500 to £38,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 August 2025 |
| Location: | Burnley, North West, BB11 5ST |
| Company: | M Group Services |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 57398699 |
Summary
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 MEICA and capital maintenance team. Our Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control & Automation (MEICA) experts offer a one-stop solution, including ongoing operation and maintenance services.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
You'll be working within our fast-paced MEICA Specialist Engineering Team, where you'll be part of a team working on site carrying a combination of both planned and reactive mechanical engineering works. This will include working within high risk confined spaces and utilising rope access.
You'll work under supervision as well as using own initiative and experience to carry out tasks and demonstrate accountability and takes responsibility of the duties within their role.
You'll assist in the successful delivery of specialist work including mechanical engineer, rope access, AMEX seal installation and pipework repairs.
What you’ll bring
- Do you have a proven track record of mechanical engineering within a fast-paced environment?
- Can you meet the physical demands of the role, working hard to benefit the team in sometimes arduous environments?
- Are you confined space, and rope access trained? This would be beneficial, however, training will be provided.
- Do you hold a valid UK driving licence?
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;
- Company van/vehicle and fuel card for business use
- 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
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
- Standby / Overtime / Call out
- 21 days plus bank holiday, rising to 25 days with service
- 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
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 MEICA and capital maintenance team. Our Mechanical, Electrical, Instrumentation, Control & Automation (MEICA) experts offer a one-stop solution, including ongoing operation and maintenance services.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
You'll be working within our fast-paced MEICA Specialist Engineering Team, where you'll be part of a team working on site carrying a combination of both planned and reactive mechanical engineering works. This will include working within high risk confined spaces and utilising rope access.
You'll work under supervision as well as using own initiative and experience to carry out tasks and demonstrate accountability and takes responsibility of the duties within their role.
You'll assist in the successful delivery of specialist work including mechanical engineer, rope access, AMEX seal installation and pipework repairs.
What you’ll bring
- Do you have a proven track record of mechanical engineering within a fast-paced environment?
- Can you meet the physical demands of the role, working hard to benefit the team in sometimes arduous environments?
- Are you confined space, and rope access trained? This would be beneficial, however, training will be provided.
- Do you hold a valid UK driving licence?
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;
- Company van/vehicle and fuel card for business use
- 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
- Recommend a friend – get rewarded for introducing people to us!
- Standby / Overtime / Call out
- 21 days plus bank holiday, rising to 25 days with service
- 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