Maintenance Operative – Level 3 – Scratchwood, Blunts Farm, Leatherhead, Swanley

About the Role

Step into a role that offers growth, excitement, and long-term security. As a Level 3 Operative, you will play a key part in delivering efficient service across the M25 DBFO Network—one of the UK’s most critical transport routes. With 15 years remaining on this major infrastructure project, this position provides the rare combination of career development and stability.

Your responsibilities will include a wide range of tasks, from hazard clearance and network maintenance to supporting operational excellence. Every day brings new challenges and opportunities to make a real impact, ensuring the safety and reliability of one of the busiest motorways in the country.

This is more than just a job—it’s a chance to build your skills, progress your career, and contribute to a project of national importance. If you’re looking for a role that combines hands-on work, variety, and long-term prospects, this is the perfect opportunity to join our team.

 

What You’ll Be Doing

• Undertake activities, as instructed, to ensure your area of responsibility is maintained. This will include, but is not limited to:
  • Cyclical maintenance
  • Graffiti removal
  • Carriageway repairs
  • Soft estate maintenance (e.g., grassland maintenance)
  • Litter picking
  • Sign maintenance
  • Cleansing
  • Safety fence repairs
  • Boundary fence repairs
  • Civil engineering or building tasks of a minor remedial nature (e.g., headwall repair)
  • Any other duties allocated by Line Managers
• Implement Chapter 8-compliant traffic management in line with CPS policies, method statements, risk assessments, and industry standards.
• Provide accurate and legible written and verbal communication in the form of reports and records as required.
• Use mobile communication/data devices to accurately input data for record purposes to form reports and business records as required.
• Undertake routine vehicle checks and maintain accurate, up-to-date driving records in accordance with CPS procedures and legislation.
• Take due care of CPS property, including but not limited to tablets, vehicles, and radios.
• Raise awareness of issues that may affect the safe operation of the network and report these as observed.
• Check that traffic management signs, equipment, and materials are carried on vehicles in line with the current maintenance checklist and are in working order; restock, record, and report defects as appropriate.
• Participate in the Winter Service rota as required.
• Attend training courses as required.
• Live the Balfour Beatty Values.
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm.
• Support the delivery of CPSUK’s sustainability activities.

Who We’re Looking For

Essential Qualifications

• UK Driving Licence, minimum category C (LGV Class 1)
• Driver Qualification Card / CPC (up to date)
• In-date Digi Card
• CSCS Operative Card
• FISS Card
• Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Highways Maintenance
• LTMO
• NHSS Sector 2 A/B Fencing qualification – Lead Installer Status (to be appointed by CPS)
• ROLO Sector Scheme 18
• NHSS12A/B 1-Day qualification
• 12AB for Static Temporary Traffic Management on High-Speed Roads and All-Purpose Trunk Road (APTR) network
• NHSS Sector 2 A/B Fencing qualification
• Unit 518 (formerly Unit 13) Winter Service Operations and Unit 580 (formerly Unit 80) Snowplough/V-blade
• Appropriate lifting qualification – ALLMI
• Banksman / Manual Handling
• 12AB Impact Protection Vehicle Courses (IPV) – Live & Non-Live Lane
• Strimmer / Hedge Trimmer
• Disc Cutter / Abrasive Wheel
• VRS Guardrail including ABC
• NVQ Level 2 – Safety Fence (Lead Installer)
• 360° Excavator (10 tonne & above)
• NRSWA Operative
• EUSR
• Telehandler
• SMSTS

 

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