About the Role
This role is central to creating, maintaining, and communicating project delivery schedules using specialist planning tools (Primavera P6), ensuring inspections are completed on time.
The Inspections Planner will work closely with the Inspections team, subcontractors, and key stakeholders to produce accurate and reliable inspection schedules. They will also generate regular reports showing progress against agreed baselines, including reasons for any deviations.
An important aspect of this role is supporting the Commercial team in assessing the impact of Compensation Events under the NEC contract. Using the project schedule, the Planner will assess changes — including Extensions of Time — and communicate findings clearly and in an evidence-based manner.
What You’ll Be Doing
1. Setting up inspections in the planning system using standard WBS codes and the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) to enable effective reporting.
2. Establishing agreed delivery baselines and creating new ones as needed to support performance monitoring and reporting.
3. Liaising with the Commercial Team to review and agree monthly forecasts, ensuring alignment between commercial and schedule assumptions.
4. Progressing the programme on a monthly basis using site reports, contractor updates, and applications — querying any discrepancies with the Project Manager.
5. Providing the Project Manager with at least a monthly update of the delivery programme in an agreed format, including programme performance, four-month lookaheads, key trends/issues affecting progress, and overall predictability.
6. Undertaking programme assessments of Compensation Events on behalf of the Project Manager, advising on valid Extensions of Time and providing clear evidence to support decisions and commercial discussions.
7. Using schedule data to create benchmarks for future projects based on actual performance from previous programmes.
Who We’re Looking For
We’re looking for someone with the following essential qualities and experience:
8. Educated to A-level standard or equivalent, ideally including mathematics or other technical subjects.
9. Experienced in the use of project planning and scheduling software, particularly Primavera P6.
10. Familiarity with NEC contracts is preferred.
11. Proven experience working in a multi-stakeholder environment.
12. Strong analytical skills, with the ability to manage large volumes of data and summarise key points and trends.
13. Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple priorities without compromising on quality or output.
14. Experience in inspection programmes or infrastructure delivery.
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 towardsand 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.
Further information on Disability Confident can be found at: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/
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