Highways Maintenance Supervisor
| Posting date: | 06 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £36,000 to £46,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 March 2026 |
| Location: | Abingdon, Home Counties, 0X14 4EZ |
| Company: | M Group Services |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 59130869 |
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?
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?
You'll undertake pre-works reviews to ensure buildability.
Continual focus on operational gross margins of all work that you are delivering, from the pre-works planning stage, to on-site supervision.
You'll be working with our commercial team, establish estimates based on an agreed schedule of rates.
Establishing a target scheme programme and monitor your works, review and hot cost progress.
You'll monitor all works activities to ensure the programme remains on track, of the right quality and is being delivered in a safe manner.
You’ll also match resource needs to ensure the programme delivers on time and budget and provide regular updates on ASTA (programmes) and Causeway (costing) or any other specific systems.
We'll ask you to manage the gangs daily, setting work targets, undertaking regular developmental reviews, and dealing with all issues that may arise with support from the Area Manager. deliver tool-box-talks and any safety briefing’s as they arise. Deliver communication plan as agreed in annual improvement imitative.’
Proactively, communicate, and support with our behavioural safety programme – “It Starts With Me”
You'll assist with the delivery of our winter maintenance and out of hours operations.
What you’ll bring
- A good level of experience in construction delivery and workforce supervision.
- Commercially driven to be able to capture working cost efficiencies, cost control and saving money wherever possible for the mutual benefit of the client and Milestone.
- Experience within the highway maintenance industry would be desirable, along with CSCS, NRSWA and SSSTS.
- Effective team management, leadership, motivational and influencing skills to get the best from everyone.
- Excellent customer skills and the ability to demonstrate influencing in all situations.
- Good general IT skills are essential. Ideally proficient in MS Excel, and any other specific systems.
- The ability to remain flexible in your approach to 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
In 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
- 28 days 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.
#MGroupH
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?
You'll undertake pre-works reviews to ensure buildability.
Continual focus on operational gross margins of all work that you are delivering, from the pre-works planning stage, to on-site supervision.
You'll be working with our commercial team, establish estimates based on an agreed schedule of rates.
Establishing a target scheme programme and monitor your works, review and hot cost progress.
You'll monitor all works activities to ensure the programme remains on track, of the right quality and is being delivered in a safe manner.
You’ll also match resource needs to ensure the programme delivers on time and budget and provide regular updates on ASTA (programmes) and Causeway (costing) or any other specific systems.
We'll ask you to manage the gangs daily, setting work targets, undertaking regular developmental reviews, and dealing with all issues that may arise with support from the Area Manager. deliver tool-box-talks and any safety briefing’s as they arise. Deliver communication plan as agreed in annual improvement imitative.’
Proactively, communicate, and support with our behavioural safety programme – “It Starts With Me”
You'll assist with the delivery of our winter maintenance and out of hours operations.
What you’ll bring
- A good level of experience in construction delivery and workforce supervision.
- Commercially driven to be able to capture working cost efficiencies, cost control and saving money wherever possible for the mutual benefit of the client and Milestone.
- Experience within the highway maintenance industry would be desirable, along with CSCS, NRSWA and SSSTS.
- Effective team management, leadership, motivational and influencing skills to get the best from everyone.
- Excellent customer skills and the ability to demonstrate influencing in all situations.
- Good general IT skills are essential. Ideally proficient in MS Excel, and any other specific systems.
- The ability to remain flexible in your approach to 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
In 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
- 28 days 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.
#MGroupH