Senior Project Manager

About The Role Senior Project Manager – Balfour Beatty – Connect Plus Services (CPS)

Location: Dartford, Leatherhead or South Mimms

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior 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.

• Stakeholder Management - Develop and maintain strong collaborative relationships with the Portfolio Manager, Self Delivery Lead, Delivery Leads, other colleagues, 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.
• 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.
• Lead and oversee projects throughout their whole lifecycle through feasibility, design, construction and handover. Informing investment proposals for our clients at each stage
• Global or master programme maintenance for whole portfolios
• Programme income and cost profiles, overseeing and challenging the Project Managers input.
• Client liaison on a project and portfolio level
• Chairing and driving regular (fortnightly) project reviews to ensure the following are current and live:
• Project and division risk register Project risk category (on financial spreadsheet) Review submissions register. Review of Correspondence Register progress comments and milestone dates
• Project income and cost forecast (review of PM profiles)
• Project change
• Project priorities (for resource allocation)
• Manage correspondence and queries through Aconex.
• Project change control and reviewing processes and procedure
• Allocation of projects to PMs based on appropriate knowledge, experience, ability, and capability (workload)
• 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

• Ability and willingness to travel to other offices and depots on the network as and when required
• Periodic requirement for site visits (night shift)
• Full Driving License
• Attend the office 60% of the working week

• Experience in the delivery of mechanical and electrical and/or technology highways construction & maintenance operations or similar transferable experience
• Project Management skills, preferably supported by recognised PM qualification, PRINCE2, APMP etc.
• Preference of minimum HNC / HND (or equivalent) in a mechanical and electrical, civil engineering or other construction-based discipline.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of other design areas.
• Understanding of Environmental requirements of schemes
• Experience of coordinating interfaces with design teams and external resources
• Understanding of H&S…