Location
Dartford, Leatherhead or South Mimms

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive, commensurate with experience

About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager to join our Connect Plus Services (CPS) team, supporting the M25 London Orbital Motorway project. CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis, responsible for operating and maintaining the M25—Europe’s busiest motorway. Delivering over £100m of annual investment alongside planned and reactive maintenance, this is a complex and high-profile network requiring robust and efficient planning.
If you are building a career in highways, this role offers exposure to one of the UK’s most challenging and dynamic infrastructure environments.

Key responsibilities include:
- Operating in the capacity of the Portfolio Manager in their absence
- Developing and maintaining strong collaborative relationships with the Portfolio Manager and key internal and external stakeholders to ensure mutual understanding of project delivery objectives
- Reporting on and reviewing project performance and agreeing solutions to issues
- Maintaining compliance with the DBFO contract, clarifying roles and responsibilities within your team, resolving risks and issues promptly
- Producing timely and accurate reports and maintaining specified records including change management
- Identifying and evaluating emerging risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints, escalating and implementing solutions as appropriate
- Maintaining global or master programme for whole portfolios
- Overseeing portfolio income and cost profiles and challenging Project Managers’ input
- Client liaison at project and portfolio level
- Managing project change control and reviewing processes and procedures
- Allocating projects to Project Managers based on knowledge, experience, ability, and workload
- Ability and willingness to travel to other offices and depots on the network as required
- Periodic requirement for site visits including night shifts
- Full driving licence required

Why work for us
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?
As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:
- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working where roles allow
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies including 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

Experience
- Delivery of highways construction and maintenance operations or similar transferable experience
- Project Management skills, preferably supported by recognised PM qualification such as PRINCE2 or APMP
- Experience at a senior level in highways construction and maintenance or similar
- Experience managing projects through complete lifecycle
- Broad knowledge and understanding of other design areas
- Experience coordinating interfaces with design teams and external resources
- Understanding of Environmental requirements of schemes
- Understanding of Health & Safety requirements related to highway construction and maintenance works
- Knowledge of CDM regulations and other H&S legislation
- Competent in exercising duties under CDM
- Applicable CSCS Card
- Team leadership and management experience driving performance and productivity
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Strong customer focus with a service delivery mindset
- Commercial understanding and budgetary control experience
- Understanding of Lean principles

About you
- Proactive problem solver
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong safety management culture
- Self-aware and adaptable style to meet varying project needs
- Resilient
- Presentation skills
- Team building skills
- Ability to prioritise and self-manage
- Ability to develop relationships and engender trust

Qualifications
- Minimum HNC / HND (or equivalent) in civil engineering or other construction-based discipline preferred