Recovery Operative – M25, London – Dartford

About the Role

Are you looking for a thrilling, hands-on career that offers stability, growth, and purpose? With 15 years remaining on this major infrastructure project, this is your chance to join a dedicated team keeping one of the UK’s most critical transport networks – the M25 – safe and operational.

As an HGV Recovery Driver, based in Dartford, Kent, you’ll play a vital role in keeping traffic moving, responding to breakdowns, collisions, and emergencies with skill and precision. You’ll be responsible for the recovery, towing, and transport of large vehicles, ensuring quick and safe clearance to minimise disruption and maintain road safety.

Working as part of Balfour Beatty Highways, you’ll be at the forefront of specialist recovery operations on the M25 network, handling complex recoveries and high-pressure situations with expertise and professionalism. In return, you’ll benefit from structured training, career progression opportunities, and the security of a long-term project.

This is more than a job – it’s an opportunity to grow your career, develop new skills, and make a real impact. If you’re ready for a rewarding, high-impact role, we’d love to have you on board!

 

Working arrangements

• Expected to work the shift pattern (days, nights, weekend and bank holidays) to meet operational requirements

• Shift pattern is 4 shifts on, 4 shifts off, to include weekends and bank holidays

• Reasonable level of travel around M25 network and between depots

• Travel to meetings, training and works sites outside normal operational area

• Expected to participate in out of hours working to fulfil Winter Maintenance

 

What you’ll be doing

• Provide Recovery response and arrange specialist advice at the scene of road related incidents, hazards and collisions.

• Attend incidents and work safely in accordance with agreed CPS policies, method statements and risk assessments to facilitate the prompt clear up of stricken vehicles.

• Undertake activities to ensure that your area of responsibility is maintained. This will include but not exclusive to:

 

• • debris and safety patrols/inspections,

• • graffiti removal

• • carriageway repairs,

• • soft estate maintenance (eg grass),

• • litter picking,

• • sign maintenance,

• • cleansing

• • Any other duties allocated by Line Managers.

 

• Implement Heavy and light vehicle recovery in line with CPS policies, method statements and risk assessments.

• Provide accurate and legible written and verbal communication in the form of reports and records as required.

• Use mobile communication/data devices to accurately input data for record purposes to form reports and business records as required

• Undertake routine vehicle and equipment checks, maintain accurate and up to date driving records in line with legislation in accordance with CPS procedures.

• Taking due care of any CPS property including but not limited to tablets, vehicles and airwave radios.

• Raise awareness of issues which may affect the safe operation of the network and report these as observed.

• Check that equipment and materials carried on vehicles in line with current recovery vehicle checklists are serviceable and in good working order, restock, record and report defects as appropriate.

• Participate in Winter Service rota as required

• Attend training courses as required

• Live the Balfour Beatty Values

• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm

• Support the delivery of CSUK’s Sustainability activities.

 

Who we’re looking for

Qualifications (Essential)

• UK Driving Licence, minimum category C+E (LGV Class 1)

• IVR 1,2 and3

• Driver Qualification Card

• CSCS Operative Card

• Appropriate manual handling qualification

• Appropriate lifting qualification

 

Experience

• Recovering heavy and light vehicles on a live motorway or All Purpose Trunk Road (APTR) network

• Proficient in the safe working practices of recovering heavy and light vehicles using full range of equipment on the recovery vehicles, underlift, winch, crane etc

• Experience of working in a similar traffic / transport / highways / recovery role are preferred.

 

Essential Criteria

 

• Successfully pass the Security check as part of recruitment process

• Successfully pass the annual driving license check

• Successfully pass pre employment Drug & Alcohol test and further test upon request

• Successfully pass the Company’s health screening programme

 

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/

 

CPS Behaviours:

 

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