Contract Engineering Manager

About the Role

Are you ready to take on a role that blends engineering excellence with real impact—and offers stability for the long haul? As a Contracts Engineering Manager on the M25 London Orbital Motorway Project, you’ll be part of a high-profile joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis, delivering one of Europe’s most complex and vital highway networks.

With 15 years of work still ahead, this isn’t just a role—it’s a career-defining opportunity. You’ll help shape and deliver over £100 million in annual infrastructure investment, contributing to both planned improvements and essential maintenance across the busiest motorway in Europe.

Based from one of our key offices—Leatherhead, South Mimms, or Dartford—you’ll work at the heart of a collaborative, forward-thinking team, where innovation and precision are valued and supported. Whether you’re looking to grow your leadership in highways engineering or step into a challenging new phase of your career, this role offers the security, scale, and purpose to help you thrive.

Join us and be part of a legacy project that keeps people moving while moving your career forward.

 

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Contract Engineering Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in the success of one of Europe’s most complex infrastructure networks. Acting as a key technical advisor within the Commercial Team, you’ll bring your deep understanding of highways engineering to ensure every project aligns with both our technical and commercial goals—delivering value today and sustainability for the future.

In this exciting and influential role, you will:

• Bridge engineering and commercial strategy: Assess how changes in scope, standards, and legislation affect project costs, and clearly communicate the commercial impacts to stakeholders.

• Translate complexity into clarity: Work across operational, technical, and commercial teams to ensure the technical requirements of our contracts are clearly understood and effectively delivered.

• Champion contract compliance: Interpret design and maintenance standards, identify the implications for future works, and ensure that all project changes are fully documented, negotiated, and contractually sound.

• Lead with technical insight: Provide expert guidance on how evolving engineering standards impact infrastructure needs, safety, and delivery—driving smarter, more resilient solutions.

• Shape the future of infrastructure: Analyse asset data to forecast maintenance and renewal demands, helping the team stay ahead of risks and long-term requirements.

• Support financial planning with engineering knowledge: Develop accurate technical estimates and factor risk into change management processes, keeping leadership informed and empowered to make strategic decisions.

 

Who We’re Looking For – Key Requirements

We’re looking for a collaborative, technically driven leader with a passion for delivering excellence on major civil engineering projects. To succeed in this role, you’ll bring:

• A BEng, BSc, or MSc in Civil Engineering or a related field

• Membership (or Fellowship) of ICE, IMechE, IEE, or equivalent

• In-depth knowledge of highway design standards and specifications, with the ability to apply them to complex infrastructure challenges

• Strong analytical skills to assess the impact of technical changes on cost and delivery

• Clear, confident communication skills—able to explain complex ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences

• A collaborative mindset with the ability to work cross-functionally, offering guidance and sharing knowledge

• A proactive approach to identifying risks, scope changes, and compliance issues

 

 

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