Project Controls Manager

About the Role

Join us as a Project Controls Manager on the M25, a major infrastructure project with an exciting 15 years still to run—offering not only a dynamic and rewarding role but the stability of long-term opportunity.

In this key position, you’ll be at the heart of delivering accurate, timely, and insightful reporting that helps drive the success of our investment programme and contract performance. You’ll collaborate closely with experts across Commercial and Planning to ensure our reporting is consistent, aligned, and adds real value—both internally and to external stakeholders.

This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your skills in a forward-thinking, supportive environment. You’ll have the chance to lead on continuous improvement, drive innovation through automation, and shape the future of how data and performance reporting supports critical infrastructure delivery.

Based in Leatherhead, this permanent role offers both stability and the chance to make a lasting impact on a nationally significant project.

What You’ll Be Doing

As Project Controls Manager, you’ll play a key role in shaping how performance and progress are measured, shared, and improved across one of the UK’s most high-profile infrastructure projects. You’ll lead with purpose, bringing clarity to data and empowering teams to make informed, timely decisions.

You’ll be:

• Designing and continuously improving reporting tools that track delivery performance and contractual compliance.

• Producing high-quality reports at project, programme, and portfolio levels, ensuring data is accurate, timely, and meaningful.

• Supporting contractual compliance through insightful reporting on key performance metrics, helping to drive accountability and reduce risk.

• Championing automation to streamline reporting processes, minimise errors, and improve efficiency.

• Building strong relationships with stakeholders to understand their reporting needs and use feedback to make continuous improvements.

• Ensuring that follow-up actions from reports are clearly tracked, assigned, and updated.

• Leading and developing a small team of Performance Analysts—setting clear goals, encouraging growth, and fostering a culture of excellence.

• Introducing and embedding Change Control processes within the PMO, including managing a central Project Change Register.

• Developing and launching a best-practice Project Risk Management framework across the programme.

 

Who We’re Looking For – Key Requirements

We’re looking for a motivated and collaborative professional who’s ready to make an impact and grow with us. Ideally, you’ll bring:

• A degree in a technical or engineering discipline

• Experience working across multi-stakeholder environments

• Strong data handling skills, with the ability to identify key insights and trends

• Proficiency in analysis and reporting tools

• Leadership experience in complex, infrastructure-focused organisations

• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities

• Experience in driving and managing change effectively

• Knowledge of the highways infrastructure sector and its key stakeholders (preferred)

We welcome applications from individuals with transferable skills and a passion for delivering meaningful work in a supportive, forward-thinking environment.

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/

 

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. 

 

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