Senior Highway Programme Lead – M25 Portfolio

Connect Plus Services; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Connect Plus Services (CPS) is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead the M25 London Orbital Motorway project portfolio. This role involves directing programme delivery, coordinating with internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring contractual compliance across DBFO arrangements.

You will manage project and portfolio performance, drive risk mitigation, and lead change control while travelling to network sites as required.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering highways construction and maintenance operations.
• PRINCE2, APM PMQ or equivalent qualification preferred.
• HNC/HND in Civil Engineering or related discipline preferred.
• Broad knowledge of related design disciplines.
• Understanding environmental requirements for infrastructure schemes.
• Experience coordinating interfaces with design teams and external resources.
• CDM Regulations and health and safety knowledge.
• Valid CSCS card.
• Leadership and team management experience.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Customer-focused with service delivery mindset.
• Commercial awareness and budgetary control.
• Understanding Lean principles.

Responsibilities

• Act as Portfolio Manager in their absence.
• Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Portfolio Manager and key stakeholders to ensure understanding of project delivery objectives, report on project performance, and agree solutions.
• Maintain compliance with the DBFO contract by clarifying roles and responsibilities within your team, resolving risks and issues, producing accurate reports, and creating and maintaining records including change management documentation.
• Identify and evaluate emerging risks, issues, dependencies and constraints; develop, agree and implement solutions to overcome these where necessary.
• Maintain global and master programmes across the portfolio.
• Manage portfolio income and cost profiles, providing oversight and challenge to Project Managers’ inputs.
• Liaise with clients at project and portfolio level.
• Lead project change control activities and review associated processes and procedures.
• Allocate projects to Project Managers based on knowledge, experience, capability and workload.
• Travel to other offices and depots across the network as required.
• Undertake periodic site visits, including occasional night shifts.
• Hold a full UK driving licence.

Skills

Project management

PRINCE2/APM PMQ

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Budgeting

Lean principles

Health and safety

CDM Regulations

CSCS card

Communication

Education

HNC/HND in Civil Engineering or related discipline

Tools

Design interfaces coordination

Job description

Connect Plus Services (CPS) is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead the M25 London Orbital Motorway project portfolio. This role involves directing programme delivery, coordinating with internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring contractual compliance across DBFO arrangements.

You will manage project and portfolio performance, drive risk mitigation, and lead change control while travelling to network sites as required.