Location
South Mimms, Hertford

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Competitive salary package

About the Role
We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager to join our Connect Plus Services (CPS) team, supporting the M25 London Orbital Motorway project. CPS is a joint venture between Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis, responsible for operating and maintaining the M25—Europe’s busiest motorway. Delivering over £100m of annual investment alongside planned and reactive maintenance, this is a complex and high-profile network requiring robust and efficient planning.
If you are building a career in highways, this role offers exposure to one of the UK’s most challenging and dynamic infrastructure environments.

The Project Manager delivers project objectives with respect to the six key areas of performance: Health & Safety, Quality, Cost, Environment, Delivery and People. You will join a fast-paced team to deliver complex highways and technology schemes throughout their full project lifecycle. Schemes range in value from £100k to £3m+ and include safety schemes, environmental improvements, technology schemes, remedial works and junction improvement schemes.

Key accountabilities include:
- Developing and maintaining strong collaborative relationships with the Portfolio Manager, SPM, Construction/Supervisor Teams and key stakeholders to ensure mutual understanding of project delivery objectives.
- Maintaining compliance with the DBFO contract, clarifying roles and responsibilities, resolving risks and issues promptly, producing accurate reports and maintaining change management records.
- Designing, agreeing and implementing project plans to ensure activities are organised and resourced to deliver objectives.
- Leading programmes through feasibility, design, construction and handover stages.
- Informing investment proposals at each stage.
- Developing robust cost profiles, identifying risks and resource requirements.
- Identifying and managing emerging risks, issues, dependencies and constraints.
- Commissioning and managing Sub Contractors and Designers, ensuring health and safety, time and cost expectations are met.
- Supporting sustainability activities including net zero and biodiversity net gain.
- Collaborating closely with Construction/Supervisor teams to manage permits, certificates and site reporting.
- Managing NEC Contracts Options as Project Manager.

Working arrangements include the ability and willingness to travel to other offices and depots on the network as required, with periodic site visits including night shifts.

Why work for us?
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious and meaningful projects, developing, building and maintaining vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

We offer a full range of benefits including:
- Smart working with flexible start and finish times and up to 40% remote working where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata).
- Family friendly policies including 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partner leave.
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and more.

Experience
- Managing project teams to successfully develop multiple projects concurrently.
- Strong collaboration skills with integrity and experience managing relationships with multiple stakeholders.
- Commercially focused with ability to manage contracts to deliver outcomes.
- High resilience to manage conflicting priorities and setbacks.
- Excellent communication and organisational skills to clarify and ensure understanding of project strategies.
- Managing and maintaining agreed project plans and detailed stage plans with Sub Contractors, Designers and internal partners.
- Experience mentoring or coaching junior team members.
- Commercially astute with good knowledge of performance evaluation techniques and key metrics.
- Solution-based approach to problem solving.
- Ability to see and inspire a shared business vision among the team.

About you
A dynamic and self-motivated individual with a strong project background, able to work in a fast-paced environment and deliver complex highways and technology schemes throughout their lifecycle.

Qualifications
- Member of a professional management body such as APM preferred.
- Formal qualification (BSc/MSc) in management/construction or equivalent experience.
- APM PFQ/PMQ/PPQ desirable.
- CSCS and SMSTS or equivalent.
- Proficient in Office 365.