Project Manager – Highways

About the Role

Project Manager – M25 London Orbital Motorway Project Shape Tomorrow.

Deliver Impact. Build a Career with Lasting Purpose.

Are you ready to step into a role that combines complexity, innovation, and long-term opportunity?

Join Connect Plus Services (CPS) as a Project Manager and help lead one of the UK’s most ambitious infrastructure projects—the M25 London Orbital Motorway. With 15 years remaining on this iconic contract and over £100 million invested annually, this is a rare opportunity to build a meaningful career while making a tangible difference.

Based at our Dartford office, you’ll be part of a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis, entrusted with the operation and maintenance of Europe’s busiest motorway. You’ll lead high-profile schemes from inception through to delivery, directly supporting the reliability and resilience of critical infrastructure—including the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge and the Dartford Tunnels.

Whether you’re looking to take the next step in highways project management or seeking a new challenge on a project with real longevity, CPS offers an environment where you’ll be empowered to grow, supported by a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Project Manager on the M25, you’ll lead from the front—driving forward vital renewal and improvement projects that make a real impact on millions of journeys. This is more than a management role; it’s an opportunity to shape the future of UK infrastructure while growing your own skills and leadership experience in a collaborative, supportive environment.

In this role, you will:

• Lead Projects with Purpose – Oversee the end-to-end delivery of renewal and improvement schemes, ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency

• Engage and Collaborate – Work closely with clients, designers, contractors, and stakeholders to deliver outcomes that matter

• Stay on Track – Support the planning team in managing programmes (P6), with a focus on milestones and critical path activities

• Drive Commercial Clarity – Manage costs, quotations, forecasting, and invoicing in partnership with the commercial team

• Resource with Confidence – Commission internal and external expertise to meet quality, budget, and schedule goals

• Maintain Governance – Prepare key documentation and lead reporting through project gateways and decision points

• Champion Community and Sustainability – Actively contribute to our Collaborative M25 Community, delivering projects that support sustainability and long-term value

You’ll be joining a team where your voice is valued, your growth is encouraged, and your work truly makes a difference—on the road and beyond.

 

Working arrangements:

• • Ability and willingness to travel to other offices for meetings on the network as and when required.
  • Periodic requirement for site visits (night shift H&S audit)

Who We’re Looking For – Key Requirements

We’re looking for a proactive, solutions-driven Project Manager who’s passionate about making an impact. To thrive in this role, you’ll bring:

• A recognised project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2, APMP)

• Solid experience in Highways or Structures Engineering, with strong design and maintenance knowledge

• A good understanding of CDM, Health & Safety, and environmental legislation related to highways

• Familiarity with NEC contracts and related frameworks

• A full UK driving licence and flexibility to travel between project sites and offices

We value your expertise—but we also value your potential. If you bring a growth mindset and the drive to deliver, we’d love to hear from you.

 

 

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