HGV Recovery Driver

About the Role

Are you looking for a hands-on, rewarding career that offers long-term stability, growth, and purpose, without compromising your work-life balance? With 15 years remaining on this major infrastructure project, this is your chance to join a committed team maintaining one of the UK’s most critical transport networks — the M25. This role offers structured shift patterns, providing clarity and consistency so you can plan your time with confidence, knowing your wellbeing matters.

As an HGV Recovery Driver based in Dartford, Kent, you’ll be on the front line of keeping traffic moving, responding to breakdowns, collisions, and emergency situations with skill and professionalism. You’ll be responsible for the safe recovery, towing, and transport of large vehicles, helping to minimise disruption and ensure road safety.

Working with Balfour Beatty Highways, you’ll play a key role in specialist recovery operations across the M25 network. This is a high-impact role where your expertise will make a real difference.

In return, you’ll benefit from:

• A fixed shift pattern, giving you clear structure and predictability in your week
• A supportive environment that values work-life balance and employee wellbeing
• Structured training and development opportunities
• Career progression within a long-term project

This is more than just a job – it’s a chance to build a fulfilling career, develop specialist skills, and be part of a team that genuinely cares. If you’re ready to step into a meaningful, stable, and well-supported role, we’d love to hear from you.

 

Working arrangements

• Expected to work the shift pattern (days, nights, weekend and bank holidays) to meet operational requirements
• Shift pattern is 4 shifts on, 4 shifts off, to include weekends and bank holidays
• Reasonable level of travel around M25 network and between depots
• Travel to meetings, training and works sites outside normal operational area
• Expected to participate in out of hours working to fulfil Winter Maintenance

 

What You’ll Be Doing

 

As an HGV Recovery Driver, you’ll play a key role in keeping one of the UK’s most vital transport networks running smoothly. Your work will directly support the safety and reliability of the M25, making a real impact every single day.

You’ll be:

• Responding to road-related incidents, hazards and breakdowns, providing recovery support and arranging specialist advice where needed.
• Attending incidents and working safely and efficiently to clear affected areas, following CPS policies and risk assessments.
• Carrying out a variety of essential maintenance tasks including:
  • Debris and safety inspections
  • Carriageway repairs and graffiti removal
  • Soft estate maintenance (e.g. grass cutting)
  • Litter picking, cleansing, and sign maintenance
• Leading or assisting with the recovery of heavy and light vehicles in line with safety procedures.
• Using mobile devices to record information accurately, supporting clear communication and compliance.
• Completing routine vehicle and equipment checks, maintaining accurate records, and ensuring all kit is in good working order.
• Reporting issues that may impact road safety or network operations.
• Participating in the Winter Service rota when required and attending training to keep your skills sharp.
• Supporting sustainability efforts and upholding Balfour Beatty’s commitment to Zero Harm and core values.

 

Who we’re looking for

Qualifications (Essential)

• UK Driving Licence, minimum category C+E (LGV Class 1)
• IVR 1, 2 and 3

 

Experience

• Recovering heavy and light vehicles on a live motorway or All Purpose Trunk Road (APTR) network
• Proficient in the safe working practices of recovering heavy and light vehicles using full range of equipment on the recovery vehicles, underlift, winch, crane etc
• Experience of working in a similar traffic / transport / highways / recovery role are preferred.

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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.

 

 

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