Structures Maintenance Operative – Scratchwood

About the Role

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a team that plays a vital role in maintaining and enhancing the DBFO Network. You’ll carry out routine inspections and maintenance on structures such as bridges, gantries, and smaller assets, combining hands-on work with accurate record-keeping to ensure the network operates safely and efficiently.

Alongside the practical aspects of the role, you’ll use your IT skills to update systems, raise briefings, plan and allocate team tasks, and provide feedback to your line manager. You’ll also gain experience in operating small plant and equipment as part of the works.

With over 15 years remaining on this major project, this role offers not only variety and professional growth, but also long-term stability. It’s an exciting opportunity to develop new skills, contribute to essential infrastructure, and be part of a team that takes pride in making a real difference every day.

What You’ll Be Doing

In this role, you’ll play an important part in keeping our network safe and well maintained. Every day will bring variety, responsibility, and the chance to develop new skills while working as part of a supportive team.

You will:

• Deliver work in line with agreed schedules, ensuring quality and consistency.

• Use your IT skills to support record-keeping and task management.

• Bring commitment, teamwork, and a positive approach to everything you do.

• Carry out duties that may involve physical activity, with the right training and support.

• Work flexibly, including occasional night shifts, to meet the needs of the network.

• Safely operate small plant and equipment as part of your role.

 

Who we’re looking for

• SSSTS qualification.
• CSCS card holder.
• Experience in small works.
• Soft estates skills (e.g. strimming, hedge cutting).
• Working at height (MEWPs and gantry access ladders).
• Confined space certification.
• Full driving licence.

 

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/

 

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