Project Manager

Balfour Beatty plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

25 days annual leave

Pension

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking a Project Manager to join the Connect Plus Services team for the M25 project, based in South Mimms. You will lead complex highway and technology schemes through their lifecycle, coordinating stakeholders, contractors, and internal teams to deliver on time and within budget.

The role emphasizes safety, quality, cost control, and stakeholder engagement, with travel across the network and potential night-site visits.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering multi-scheme highways projects (£100k–£3m+).
• Ability to lead with integrity, manage diverse stakeholders and influence outcomes.
• Commercial focus to drive project performance and contract delivery.
• Resilience under competing priorities and setbacks.
• Strong communication and organisational skills to clarify strategies.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage project plans and resources to deliver objectives.
• Lead and oversee projects through feasibility, design, construction and handover.
• Manage sub-contractors and designers ensuring health, safety and cost discipline.
• Report on performance, risks and changes; maintain records and change control.
• Support sustainability initiatives including net zero and biodiversity goals.
• Travel to other offices/depots; occasional night shifts for site visits.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Contract management

Project lifecycle oversight

Communication

Planning and scheduling

Mentoring junior staff

Risk and issue management

Collaborative leadership

Cost/finance awareness

Problem solving

Education

APM PFQ/PMQ/PPQ

BSc/MSc in management/construction

CSCS and SMSTS

Office 365 proficiency

Tools

Microsoft Office 365

Job description

About the role

Project Manager – Balfour Beatty – Connect Plus Services (CPS)

Location: South Mimms

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.

What you'll be doing

The Project Manager delivers project objectives with respect to the six key areas of performance: Health & Safety, Quality, Cost, Environment, Delivery and People.

We are looking for a dynamic and self‑motivated individual with a strong project background to join this fast‑paced team to deliver the more complex highways and technology schemes throughout their whole project lifecycle. Schemes range in value from £100k to £3m+ and include safety schemes, environmental improvements, technology schemes, remedial works and junction improvement schemes.

Accountabilities:

• Stakeholder Management - Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Portfolio Manager, SPM, Construction/Supervisor Teams and key internal and external stakeholders, to ensure full mutual understanding of the projects’ delivery objectives, to report on and review project performance, and to agree solutions to issues.
• Maintaining compliance with the DBFO contract clarifying roles and responsibilities within your team, resolving risks and issues in a timely manner, producing timely and accurate reports, and creating and maintaining specified records including change management.
• Design, agree and implement project plans, to ensure that all activities are appropriately organised to deliver project objectives, are appropriately resourced to deliver the required outcomes.
• Lead and oversee programmes throughout their whole lifecycle through feasibility, design, construction and handover. Informing investment proposals for our clients at each stage.
• Contribute to the development of robust cost profiles identifying key risks and quantifying resource requirement.
• Identify and evaluate emerging risks, issues, dependencies and constraints associated with the project, escalating where appropriate. Where necessary develop, agree and implement solutions to overcome these.
• Commission and manage the performance of Sub Contractors and Designers as appropriate, ensuring that project objectives and requirements are clearly understood, setting clear expectations for health and safety management, time and cost; and taking appropriate remedial action where necessary.
• Support the delivery of the business’ sustainability activities including net zero and biodiversity net gain.
• Work closely with the Construction/Supervisor team to ensure permits, certificates and site reporting are managed correctly and align to project needs.
• Managing NEC Contracts Options as Project Manager.
• Working arrangements (shift work, need for travel etc).
• Ability and willingness to travel to other offices and depots on the network as and when required.
• Periodic requirement for site visits (night shift).

Who we're looking for

The following qualities/experience are essential:

• Experience of managing project teams to successfully develop of multiple projects concurrently.
• A strong collaborator, with integrity and experience of managing relationships with multiple stakeholders and evidence of skills to influence relationships for positive outcomes gaining the involvement and engagement of a wide range of stakeholders.
• Commercially focused, to drive project performance and ability to manage contracts to deliver outcomes.
• High resilience, to deal constructively with conflicting priorities and setbacks.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills, to clarify and ensure understanding of project strategies and solutions.
• Experience of managing and maintaining agreed project plans and detailed stage plans in conjunction with Sub Contractors, Designers and internal partners.
• Demonstrate experience as mentor and/or coach to develop project management talent, skills and competence in junior team members.
• Commercially astute.
• Good knowledge of performance evaluation techniques and key metrics.
• Record of a solution‑based approach to problem solving.
• Ability to see the business vision and inspire this shared vision amongst the team.

Preferable qualifications:

• Member of a professional management body i.e. APM
• Formal qualification (BSc/MSc) in management/construction or experience equivalent.
• APM PFQ/PMQ/PPQ
• CSCS and SMSTS or Equivalent
• Proficient on Office 365

Why work for us

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

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us

Connect Plus Services (CPS) brings together the collective strength of our parent companies - Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis Road Operation UK. With around 600 people, based at eight locations across the M25 network, we work on behalf of Connect Plus and National Highways to manage the operation of the M25 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from routine maintenance to managing the whole-life requirement of thousands of assets across the network.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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. For more info, visit https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at [e-mail]