Commissioning Manager

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 Energy, we re enabling the energy essential to support our lives.

We provide an end-to-end service, delivering solutions in electricity transmission, distribution, renewable energy, EV, metering and home decarbonisation.

This role will be within our Transmission & Renewables team. We design, build and commission substations at voltages up to and including 400kV. Our teams construct and maintain transmission lines and substations, ensuring the efficient and reliable delivery of electricity.

This role offers a hybrid setup; Caldicot office / site visits across South West & South Wales and some remote working.

Want to come and be a part of it?

What will you be doing?

We're looking for a skilled professional to join our team and provide technical support for our National Grid HV substation projects!

As a Commissioning Manager, you ll lead and manage commissioning activities across projects delivered under long-term framework agreements. The role is responsible for planning, coordinating, and safely delivering commissioning activities to programme, quality, and client requirements.

You ll act as the Commissioning Lead, working closely with Project Managers, Construction Managers, SAPs, Protection Engineers, and client representatives to ensure safe and efficient energisation of assets.

• Produce commissioning plans, ensuring compliance with current legislation
• Test and commission HV plant and apparatus
• Review and correct drawings and resolve any design issues
• Attend client meetings, managing commissioning resources and subcontractors
• Manage people safely and mentor team members to enhance their technical knowledge

Join a team where innovation & fresh thinking is encouraged!

What you ll bring

• Proven track record in Testing and Commissioning on High Voltage distribution and/or transmission networks
• Sound experience of engineering policy, procedure, and legislation
• Strong decision-making skills with the ability to identify and develop processes to improve outputs
• Effective communication and engagement with internal and external stakeholders
• Knowledge of current HSE legislation
• Team player, working well with clients, designers, and site project staff
• Qualified to HNC/Degree Level in Electrical Engineering
• Full UK driving licence you ll need to travel to sites

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
• Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

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 3 rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.