Quantity Surveyor – M25

About the role

 

Join Our Team as a Quantity Surveyor – M25 London Orbital Motorway Project.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Quantity Surveyor to play a key role in delivering one of Europe’s most dynamic highway projects: the M25 London Orbital Motorway, managed by Connect Plus Services (CPS).

This role offers flexibility to work from our offices in either Leatherhead, South Mimms, or Dartford.

CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins, and Egis, entrusted with operating and maintaining the M25—the busiest section of motorway in Europe. With over £100 million of annual investment in the highway infrastructure, this project is unlike any other, offering unmatched challenges and opportunities in highways engineering.

Whether you are advancing your career in Highways or looking for your next professional challenge, this is the place to be.

 

 

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Quantity Surveyor on the M25 project, you’ll play a vital role in delivering value, driving commercial excellence, and helping ensure one of the UK’s most significant infrastructure networks is maintained to the highest standards.

In this exciting and fast-paced role, you’ll be trusted to:

• Manage costs and measurements for a variety of civil engineering works, ensuring accuracy and value for money

• Analyse contract and project programmes, supporting strategic procurement and commercial planning

• Provide clear, detailed commercial reporting, including cost-value reconciliations and outturn forecasts

• Build strong relationships with customers and stakeholders, managing commercial expectations and communications effectively

• Lead on the preparation, submission, and negotiation of claims, ensuring compliance with contract terms

• Support and mentor junior team members, helping them progress towards professional chartership

You’ll be part of a collaborative and forward-thinking team, where your voice will be heard and your expertise recognised. This role offers not just responsibility and challenge, but also a platform for professional development and long-term career growth.

Who We’re Looking For – Key Requirements

We’re seeking a driven and detail-focused Quantity Surveyor who’s ready to make a real impact on one of the UK’s most high-profile infrastructure networks. If you’re passionate about commercial excellence and collaborative working, we’d love to hear from you.

You’ll bring:

• Proven experience as a Quantity Surveyor, with the ability to lead or support commercial teams

• A BSc or MSc in Quantity Surveying (or related discipline), backed by relevant industry experience

• Professional membership (or working towards) with RICS, ICES or an equivalent recognised body

• Experience in highways or civil engineering is a plus—but not essential for the right candidate

We’re committed to supporting your growth and providing the platform you need to thrive, whether you’re taking the next step in your career or bringing established expertise to a new challenge.

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