Structures Supervisor – London

Job number:
BBUK17751

Company/Division:
Highways

Career area:

Contract type:
Permanent


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About the Role

As a Structures Supervisor, you will ensure the safe and efficient delivery of maintenance and defect‑rectification activities across the M25 network. Your team will be responsible for maintaining structures assets in line with contract requirements.

Managing a team of operatives and overseeing the work of subcontractors, you will help maintain the safety, quality and compliance of all works. Your role will involve planning routine works, scouting defects to assess requirements, delivering daily briefings and debriefings, and ensuring sufficient resources are in place to complete activities safely and on schedule.

You will also play a key role in driving continuous improvement, identifying cost‑saving opportunities and ensuring accurate, timely updates to the Maintenance Management System.

Your effective leadership will contribute to the long‑term performance of the M25 network, ensuring it remains safe, resilient and well maintained.

What You’ll Be Doing

Maintenance Supervision

  • Ensure the efficient supervision of all work activities, including those completed by subcontractors.
  • Ensure all required information is available before works commence, including raising permits where necessary.
  • Scout defects to determine the exact requirements for rectification.
  • Plan routine and cyclical works by pre‑scouting areas before closures.
  • Update the Maintenance Management System to capture all relevant data relating to work activities.
  • Ensure sufficient resources are in place to deliver all works safely and on time.
  • Prepare and deliver daily briefings to operatives and subcontractors, covering methodology, hazards, risks and control measures.
  • Deliver detailed debriefs at the end of each shift to identify issues and embed lessons learned into future activities.

Safety and Compliance

  • Drive Zero Harm objectives by raising risk awareness, mitigating hazards and promoting a proactive safety culture across the team and subcontractors.
  • Lead by example to ensure all activities meet safety standards and comply with required systems, processes and procedures.

Leadership

  • Manage day‑to‑day people‑management tasks, including performance monitoring, absence management, overtime and annual leave.
  • Support the development of team members through ongoing feedback, coaching and training.

Continuous Improvement & Sustainability

  • Encourage a culture of continuous improvement, empowering teams to explore new ideas and solutions to enhance performance.
  • Identify cost‑saving opportunities and contribute to sustainable working practices.

Who We’re Looking For

  • Appropriate CSCS qualification
  • SMSTS / SSSTS
  • Experience delivering structures maintenance operations or similar transferable experience
  • Team leadership and management experience, with the ability to drive performance and productivity
  • Strong communication skills
  • A customer‑focused mindset

Working Arrangements

This role is based on Monday–Friday daytime hours, with the requirement to work nights when operational needs dictate.

 

 

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