M Group growth plans: what Findlay’s hiring push means for UK civils engineers
Reviewed by Tom Sullivan
First reported on New Civil Engineer
30 Second Briefing
M Group CEO Andrew Findlay plans to leverage strong annual report results and an ambitious growth pipeline in UK utilities and infrastructure frameworks to recruit more engineers, project managers and technical specialists. The group, which delivers large-scale power, water and telecoms works for major clients under long-term asset management and capital delivery contracts, is positioning its balance sheet strength as a signal of workload stability. For practitioners, this points to sustained demand for civils, trenchless installation, and asset resilience expertise across regulated network programmes.
Technical Brief
- Long-term asset management contracts lock in multi-year capex programmes rather than one-off construction packages.
- Framework delivery model favours repeatable trenchless installation, rehabilitation and replacement of buried linear assets.
- Workload includes regulated network resilience schemes, typically involving live asset interfaces and constrained urban corridors.
- Delivery teams are structured around programme-wide planning, rather than isolated project-by-project mobilisation.
- Risk management emphasis is on schedule certainty for client capex cycles and regulatory price-control periods.
- For geotechnical and civils specialists, the main technical demand is subsurface utility works and asset protection.
Our Take
M Group’s push to use strong financials as a talent magnet is underpinned by its recent record 2025/26 results, which in our database coincide with a visibly expanding order book across UK infrastructure frameworks.
The group’s role in National Grid’s £1.2bn Electricity Transmission Partnership reconductoring phase signals that many new hires are likely to be deployed into complex overhead line and grid-resilience work rather than traditional civils alone.
Securing a slot on London Gatwick’s five-year Buildings and Civils Framework suggests M Group can offer recruits multi-year airport upgrade exposure, which is relatively scarce in our 918-item infrastructure set compared with road and rail work.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
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