Junior Asset Sponsor

About the Role

This is a rare opportunity to join a project of national significance with a future as robust as the infrastructure it supports. As a Junior Asset Sponsor within our Asset & Network Planning team, you’ll play a key role in the strategic planning and performance of one of the UK’s most vital transport networks — the M25.

With over £70 million in annual investment forecasted and 15 years remaining on this flagship 30-year contract, this role offers exceptional long-term career stability, while placing you at the heart of high-impact, exciting work that directly shapes how the network is maintained and improved.

You’ll be supporting the delivery of a whole-life investment approach across a wide and complex asset base — from tunnels and technology systems to pavements, structures, lighting, and drainage. Collaborating with expert teams across Asset Management, Commercial, Delivery, and Planning, you’ll help ensure performance, safety, and quality targets are met.

This is a role for someone who thrives on variety, wants to influence big-picture decisions, and is passionate about making infrastructure smarter, safer, and more efficient. You’ll gain hands-on exposure to every corner of our operations and enjoy ongoing development within a joint venture of three industry leaders: Balfour Beatty, AtkinsRéalis, and Egis.

If you’re looking to grow in a role that combines technical challenge with strategic purpose – and be part of a legacy that keeps the UK moving – we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a vital member of our asset management team, you’ll play a central role in shaping the future of our infrastructure by supporting the development and implementation of forward-thinking Asset Management Plans. Your work will directly contribute to the long-term safety, efficiency, and sustainability of our operations.

You’ll collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders—from CPS Asset Managers and supply partners to internal clients and national agencies—to align budgets, priorities, and delivery strategies. Your insights will help define maintenance, renewal, and improvement activities, ensuring they’re data-driven, cost-effective, and environmentally responsible.

Day-to-day, you’ll guide specialist teams in identifying and delivering high-impact asset solutions, oversee integrated delivery plans, and monitor progress to keep everything on track. You’ll champion a culture of accountability and continuous improvement, and bring clarity and rigor to our risk management and commercial forecasting.

Your voice will help shape key asset management policies and sustainability initiatives, supporting our commitment to net-zero and biodiversity net gain. And throughout it all, you’ll be building strong, respectful, and productive relationships across the organisation and with external partners to achieve shared goals for the M25 Tunnels portfolio.

This is more than a role—it’s a chance to be part of something bigger: building resilient infrastructure for generations to come.

Who We’re Looking For – Key Requirements

We’re looking for a passionate, forward-thinking individual who brings a blend of strategic insight, technical capability, and collaborative spirit. If the list below sounds like you—or who you aspire to become—we’d love to hear from you.

Experience & Skills:

·      Experience of asset investment and delivering value for money management in a construction-critical infrastructure environment ·      Strong stakeholder influencing and management skills ·      Project focussed with experience building collaboration in teams for continuous improvement ·      Experience of working in a Joint Venture or similar arrangement (desirable). ·      Experience of tunnels and/or highway structures asset management (desirable) ·      Experience with data analysis and data led decision making.

Personal Qualities:

• Strategic thinker, influencing problem solving and empowering decisions

• Effective strategic communicator, with confident challenging skills

• Inspirational leader, with demonstratable skills to nurture and develop outcome focussed and positive teams

• Strong planning and decision making to deliver continuous improvement

• Business and politically astute

• Resilient and adaptable

 

 

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