Depot Manager – M25

About the Role

Are you ready to lead from the front on one of the UK’s most high-profile infrastructure projects? As a Depot Manager on the M25, you’ll take on a pivotal role ensuring the safe, efficient, and effective delivery of on-road operations across a key section of the network.

With 15 years of development still ahead in this long-term joint venture, this role offers not only daily challenge and variety, but also stability and clear career progression. You’ll lead a dedicated team of Supervisors and Operatives, championing a strong safety culture while driving performance and high standards in all aspects of operational delivery.

From managing inspection regimes to contributing to incident response, your leadership will directly impact the reliability and resilience of one of the busiest roads in the UK. If you’re looking to grow your career while making a lasting contribution to national infrastructure, this is the opportunity to do just that.

What You’ll Be Doing

As Depot Manager, you’ll lead a high-performing operational team delivering critical maintenance and incident response across the M25 network—helping to keep the country moving while ensuring the safety and wellbeing of both your team and the public.

In this dynamic and rewarding role, you will:

• Ensure high-quality work and drive productivity across maintenance and incident activities

• Monitor KPI performance, oversee accurate data capture, and champion continuous improvement

• Manage depot operations, including facilities, fleet, plant, and equipment

• Ensure resourcing is in place for both planned and reactive works, including winter maintenance and emergency response

• Take part in the Silver Manager rota, leading on-site responses to major incidents

• Conduct daily team briefings and maintain clear records of activities and decisions

• Drive compliance and safety, developing RAMS, leading inspections, and embedding Zero Harm principles

• Lead and support your team through regular PDRs, clear objectives, and tailored development plans

• Manage staffing needs, including rotas, leave, sickness, and overtime

• Investigate incidents and ensure proper resolution of HR and H&S matters

• Encourage collaboration, knowledge sharing, and a culture of continuous improvement

• Monitor delivery performance, reporting data that drives smart, sustainable decisions

 

Who We’re Looking For – Key Requirements

We’re looking for a motivated and people-focused leader who brings:

• A valid CSCS qualification

• Experience in highways maintenance or a similar operational environment

• Proven leadership and team management skills with a focus on performance and productivity

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage confidently across all levels

• A strong customer service mindset and commitment to high-quality delivery

If you’re ready to lead with purpose and grow your career on a nationally significant project, we’d love to hear from you.

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