Portfolio Manager: Dartford & Tunnel Assets

About the Role

This is more than just a job — it’s a chance to play a key role in a landmark infrastructure project with over 15 years of work ahead. As part of a long-term, high-profile initiative, you’ll experience the excitement of hands-on engineering, the opportunity to grow and develop your career, and the stability that comes from contributing to a major programme with a strong future.

You’ll join a collaborative team committed to innovation and excellence, where your voice matters and your skills are valued. Whether you’re improving asset strategies, supporting inspections, or shaping long-term maintenance plans, every day brings a chance to make a meaningful impact on the M25 — one of the UK’s most critical transport networks.

This is an ideal role for someone who’s looking for variety, purpose, and progression, all within a supportive and forward-thinking environment.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a key member of the team, you’ll play a vital role in shaping the delivery of essential infrastructure across the M25 network. You’ll lead with purpose, driving safe, efficient, and high-quality outcomes that matter — not just for the project, but for the millions who rely on this network every day.

In this role, you’ll:

• Champion safety through visible leadership, upholding the principles of Making Safety Personal, and promoting a strong safety culture across all teams.

• Oversee project performance, reviewing programmes and budgets monthly with Project Managers to identify risks, resolve challenges, and maintain delivery excellence.

• Manage budgets collaboratively, working with your Senior Quantity Surveyor to track costs, manage changes, and align with project goals and financial expectations.

• Engage and influence stakeholders, building strong working relationships across internal teams and client representatives to ensure alignment and accountability.

• Lead resource planning, ensuring responsibilities under CDM regulations are met throughout each project lifecycle within your portfolio.

• Ensure compliance and transparency, preparing accurate monthly reports and presenting key insights to clients and senior leadership when required.

This is a role where you can truly lead with impact — bringing your expertise to the table while being supported to grow, collaborate, and deliver with pride.

Who We’re Looking For – Key Requirements

We’re looking for a collaborative and capable professional who brings both experience and passion to delivering high-impact projects. You’ll thrive here if you enjoy leading with purpose, embracing complexity, and working as part of a supportive team.

You’ll ideally bring:

• Experience delivering projects of a similar scale and complexity

• Strong leadership skills, including team management in a matrix environment

• Confidence managing multiple projects in a fast-paced setting

• A sound understanding of health and safety standards within the industry

• A degree in engineering, construction management or a related field — or equivalent industry experience

• A recognised project management qualification (e.g. PMP, APM PMQ or equivalent)

• Working knowledge of NEC3 and NEC4 contracts

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/

 

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.

Location:

This is a hybrid role designed to fully maximize team collaboration on the project, we offer flexible working where you will typically be working from your base CPS office, Leatherhead, Dartford or South Mimms up to three days per week and two days from home.

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