Senior Linear Inspector

About the Role

The Senior Linear Inspector plays a key role in supporting the delivery of the Linear Inspections Programme. Working closely with the Inspections Lead and a team of Inspectors, the post holder ensures inspections are properly permitted, coordinated, and executed to the required standards. This role is essential for maintaining the quality and timeliness of inspection activities across the network and meeting CPS contractual requirements.

 

What You’ll Be Doing

Programme Coordination

• Liaise with the Logistics Manager to book road space and traffic management to facilitate inspections when required.
• Ensure all necessary briefings and provisions are in place prior to inspection activities.
• Monitor and update the inspection programme to reflect progress and changes.
• Maintain attention to detail, ensuring inspection defect reporting meets quality and regulatory standards.
• Assist the Drainage Inspections Manager with planning CCTV inspections.
• Manage deliverables from all linear inspections, including monitoring the progress of uploads from drainage CCTV surveys to the GDMS.
• Act as Activity Manager for any drone requests on the network, ensuring all drone activity is approved by National Highways and complies with required standards.
• Keep accurate logs and records of all linear inspections.

Team Leadership

• Line manage Inspectors, providing guidance and support.
• Conduct regular refresher training for the in-house inspections team.
• Deliver constructive feedback to improve inspection quality and adherence to standards.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and professional development.

Operational Delivery

• Assist in creating and managing orders for suppliers involved in linear inspection delivery.
• Track supplier progress and ensure timely execution of inspection tasks.
• Conduct on-site inspections when required, ensuring compliance with current standards.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with internal teams across Asset and Project Delivery and Service Delivery.
• Maintain effective working relationships with external partners and stakeholders.
• Assist with configuring new systems used for collecting inspection data.
• Report monthly inspection KPIs.

Key Relationships

• Inspections Lead
• Inspection Team
• Asset and Project Delivery Teams
• Maintenance Teams
• External Contractors and Suppliers

Who We’re Looking For

• A minimum of three years’ experience in highway inspection, construction, or a related civil engineering field.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Proficiency with linear inspection tools and IT systems.
• Digital skills in Impulse Geophysics Roadshow, Field Maps, Survey123, ArcGIS, and QGIS.
• Experience in inspection programmes or infrastructure delivery.
• Ability to manage and motivate teams.
• Knowledge of traffic management and road space permitting.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Familiarity with inspection standards and quality assurance processes.

 

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