Highways Safety Inspector & Soft Estates Supervisor

About the role

As a Highways Safety Inspector (HSI) and Soft Estates Supervisor, you’ll support the Highways Safety Inspector Team and the safe delivery of Soft Estates activities across then M25 network. Your leadership will ensure planned and reactive operations run smoothly, challenges are resolved, and targets are consistently met.

 

Leading a team of Highways Safety Inspectors and internal/external Soft Estate operational teams you’ll promote a safety-first culture where everyone is committed to doing their work in the right way. You’ll ensure teams are appropriately briefed, working efficiently, and have the right resources to succeed.

You’ll also support the delivery of various inspection regimes, ensuring high
standards of work are maintained across all activities, and you’ll contribute to
rectifying High Priority Defects and customer complaints.

Your effective leadership and focus on continuous improvement will support the long-term success of the M25 network, ensuring it remains safe, resilient and in top condition.

 

 

What You’ll Be Doing

As a key leader in our operations team, you’ll play a vital role in keeping one of the UK’s most important transport networks running safely, smoothly, and sustainably. Every day, your work will contribute to the wellbeing of road users and the environment—and you’ll do it alongside a team that values collaboration, integrity, and care.

You’ll:

• Champion safety and wellbeing by leading daily briefings, identifying risks, and ensuring best practices are followed on every shift.

• Supervise and support your team in delivering a wide range of essential tasks—from grass cutting and arboriculture to highway inspections and winter services.

• Ensure your team is well-resourced, well-informed, and empowered to succeed, while fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and heard.

• Guide and mentor team members through clear communication, constructive feedback, and people-focused management.

• Use digital tools and reporting systems to capture insights, track progress, and drive continuous improvement.

• Help shape a safer, more sustainable network by contributing to our Zero Harm and environmental goals.

 

 

Who We’re Looking For – Key Requirements

We welcome people from all backgrounds who are passionate about making a difference and committed to working safely, responsibly, and collaboratively. You’ll thrive in this role if you have:

• A valid CSCS qualification relevant to the role

• SMSTS or SSSTS certification

• Experience in highways maintenance or a related field with transferable skills

• Proven team leadership abilities, with a focus on motivating and supporting others

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

• A strong customer-focused approach, always aiming for high standards

• A UK driver’s license to travel across our sites

 

Working Arrangements
Expected to work Mon-Fri, days
May be expected to works nights occasionally, where the relevant uplifts will apply.
Day shifts are 07:00 to 16:00, night shifts are 20:30 to 05:30 with a 45-minute break

 

Reasonable level of travel around M25 network. Travel to meetings, training and works sites outside normal operational area. Expected to participate in out of hours call out rotas e.g. Winter Maintenance.

 

 

Behavioural Competencies

Inspiring: Champions curiosity and continuous improvement, role modelling change and managing risks to achieve project outcomes.

Energising:  Role models positive and energised project focussed attitudes towards   and continuous improvement. 

Challenging: seeks and advocates improvements to add value and drive continuous performance.

Challengeable: Encourage a culture of skilled challenging and seek to understand and explore challenge to enable improvement.

Influencing: Builds commitment and consensus, and role models CPS leadership behaviours to deliver our goals.

Why Work for Us?

At Connect Plus Services (CPS), you’ll be part of a world-class team maintaining and operating the M25, Europe’s busiest motorway. As a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis, we play a vital role in keeping millions of journeys moving safely and efficiently.

A Career Like No Other

Working on the M25 offers unrivalled experience, challenges, and opportunities that no other highways project can provide. You’ll be exposed to cutting-edge technology, large-scale infrastructure, and complex engineering solutions, making every day dynamic and rewarding.

Long-Term Stability & Growth

With 15+ years remaining on this project, we offer career stability, professional development, and progression opportunities. Whether you’re looking to build new skills or take the next step in your career, we invest in your growth.

A Supportive & Inclusive Team

At CPS, your contributions matter. We foster a diverse, inclusive, and collaborative work environment where safety, innovation, and teamwork drive everything we do.

 

About us

CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis.

At Balfour Beatty we are committed to creating a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential, not only because this is the right thing to do, but because it makes us a better business.

To ensure we deliver on this commitment, we have a UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan which sets out the wide range of targeted, proactive, measurable steps we are taking to make this a reality. You can read our UK Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan in full at www.balfourbeatty.com/value_everyone

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and Women into Construction. In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion.

Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence ‘Employer Recognition Scheme’ and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans, and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role.

Further information on Disability Confident can be found at:  https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

 

Location:

This is a hybrid role designed to fully maximize team collaboration on the project, we offer flexible working where you will typically be working from your base CPS office, Leatherhead, Dartford or South Mimms up to three days per week and two days from home.

Note to all internal CPS employees:

If you are interested in applying, please submit your application through your parent company’s careers portal by entering the job title in the search bar. If your employing company is not advertising this role, please submit your CV and the role title to recruitment@connectplusm25.co.uk