Are you looking for a role that offers variety, purpose, and real opportunity for growth? As our HR Administrator, you’ll play a vital part in supporting the smooth and efficient running of our HR function, helping to shape the employee experience across one of the UK’s most ambitious infrastructure projects.
With 15 years remaining on this major programme, this is not only a chance to contribute meaningfully day-to-day, but also to build a stable and fulfilling career in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment. You’ll be working at the heart of a project that truly makes a difference — backed by a strong team, clear processes, and opportunities to learn and grow along the way.
If you’re organised, people-focused, and ready to take your next step in HR, we’d love to hear from you.
What You’ll Be Doing
In this vital HR Administrator role, you’ll be at the heart of our people operations, providing essential support that helps our teams thrive. You’ll be working in a collaborative and fast-paced environment, ensuring our HR processes run smoothly while playing an important part in creating a positive employee experience.
Your key responsibilities will include:
Responding to HR queries from colleagues and external contacts with professionalism and care
Ensuring all calls and correspondence are directed to the right person within the HR team
Maintaining accurate and confidential employee records in our HR systems
Liaising with the employee services teams across our three parent companies to gather information and support
Supporting the onboarding process to ensure new joiners feel welcomed and prepared
Managing the HR inbox, responding to requests in a timely and efficient manner
Recording and filing sickness and return-to-work documentation appropriately
Gathering and reporting HR metrics for monthly updates
Producing ad hoc reports as needed by the wider team
You’ll be joining a friendly, inclusive team that values collaboration, reliability, and attention to detail. Every task you complete will help support the wellbeing, development, and success of our people — and that makes a real difference.
Who We’re Looking For – Key Requirements
We’re looking for someone who is proactive, organised, and enjoys supporting others. You’ll bring a positive, can-do attitude to a busy and varied role, with the ability to stay calm under pressure and deliver high-quality work.
Strong general IT skills and confidence using Microsoft Office
Ability to multitask and respond promptly to urgent requests
Experience in an administrative or support role within a team environment
A calm and focused approach when working under pressure
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.
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.
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
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