Deputy Utilities Coordinator

About the Role

Are you ready to take the next step in your utilities or highways career with a role that offers real responsibility, long-term opportunity, and the chance to be part of something bigger? As a Deputy Utilities Coordinator on the M25—one of the UK’s most critical infrastructure networks—you’ll step into a position that combines technical oversight, safety leadership, and stakeholder collaboration.

With 15 years remaining on this major Joint Venture project, this role offers not only stability but a clear pathway for growth and progression. You’ll work closely with the Utilities Coordinator and site teams to ensure groundworks are carried out safely, compliantly, and efficiently, supporting best practice under industry standards like HSG47 and GS6.

This is more than a coordination role—it’s a chance to work alongside a highly experienced team, gain valuable exposure to complex projects, and contribute to continuous improvement in safety and service delivery. You’ll liaise with utility providers, help resolve live on-site issues, and ensure high standards are met across the network.

If you’re looking for a role that offers technical challenge, collaborative problem-solving, and a long-term future within a nationally significant programme—this could be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for.

 

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Deputy Utilities Coordinator, you’ll play a hands-on role in ensuring that all groundworks across the M25 are carried out safely, compliantly, and in close alignment with best practice. You’ll be an important bridge between operational teams, utility owners, and safety procedures—supporting the delivery of vital works on one of the UK’s most significant highway networks.

In this rewarding role, you will:

• Support and oversee the permit approval process for any works involving excavation or breaking ground

• Work closely with site teams, carrying out utility surveys and helping shape safe, efficient methodologies

• Conduct site inspections, ensuring all activities comply with the Permit to Break Ground (PTBG) system and safety regulations

• Coordinate with utility owners, resolving access, approval, and safety concerns quickly and effectively

• Engage with operational teams and depots, promoting awareness, delivering training, and identifying areas for continuous improvement

• Assist with utility asset enquiries and help manage related administrative processes alongside the Utilities Coordinator

You’ll have the chance to build relationships, develop your technical and coordination skills, and contribute to safety-first delivery on a high-impact project.

Working Arrangements
We offer flexibility in your base location from any of our M25 offices. You’ll be supported with a company van and fuel card, enabling you to carry out site visits and attend depot meetings across the network as part of your regular working week.

Who We’re Looking For – Key Requirements

We welcome individuals from all backgrounds who bring a proactive attitude, a safety-first mindset, and the following skills and experience:

• A full, clean UK driving licence (B/B1)

• NRSWA Supervisor certification

• Knowledge of Statutory Undertakers’ safety and control procedures

• Ability to read and interpret utility drawings accurately

• Confident user of MS Word, Excel, and Outlook

• Understanding of GS6, HSG47, PAS-128/256 procedures for working near overhead and underground utilities

• Experience with construction works involving utility interfaces

If you’re organised, collaborative, and ready to make a difference on one of the UK’s most vital highway projects, 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/

 

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