M Group Energy
Lead Digital Engineer
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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.
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.
What will you be doing?
M Group are looking for a Lead Digital Engineer to join the team and be part of our exciting Great Grid Partnership project. You'll be a key part of M Group, leading the delivery of technical excellence, robust assurance, and outstanding project performance across the project lifecycle. You will be seconded into National Grid as the Senior Project Information Manager (SPIM) on the Great Grid Upgrade (GGP) programme, supporting the Brinsworth to High Marnham (EDEU) project — a >£1bn infrastructure upgrade including substation replacements and ~70 km of overhead line upgrades. While working alongside National Grid, you will continue to be an active member of M Group's community.
This is a Hybrid position to our offices in Birmingham. A full driving licence is required.
Responsibilities:
- Lead Information Management across the project lifecycle
- Manage and maintain the BIM Execution Plan (BEP) and Master Information Delivery Plan (MIDP)
- Drive adoption and compliance of the Common Data Environment (CDE)
- Coordinate BIM, GIS, and Document Control activities across delivery teams
- Support Package Information Managers in configuring and managing information workflows
- Align information exchange with National Grid systems (NGSI Onshore ACC)
- Assess team capability and deliver training to improve information delivery
- Identify and manage risks, opportunities, and assurance activities
- Collaborate with Digital Integrator and SPIM peers to improve processes and share best practice
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Digital Leadership & Governance:
- Embed National Grid's Information Management Framework (EIR, IPMP, IS)
- Ensure consistent digital standards and governance across packages
- Manage BIM/GIS resources and strengthen digital capability across projects
- Promote digital best practice and improve digital literacy across teams
- Mentor and support development of others within the Digital Engineering community
- Collaborate across projects to drive consistency and innovation
- Support governance, QA, and effective digital resourcing
What you'll bring:
- Essential - Appropriate relevant DE/BIM experience in a leading role, with management responsibility
- Degree in Architectural or Engineering discipline (Civil Engineering / Architectural Technology / Building Services / Structural Engineering), or other construction related degree.
- Industry recognised BIM specific accreditation or structured training, or Chartership.
- Full UK driving licence
What’s in it for you?
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Company car/car allowance and fuel card for business use
- Private health care and health care cash plan for you and your family
- Matched or contributory pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave & more.
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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 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.
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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.
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