Asset Investment Planning Lead

**About the role**
CPS currently has a requirement for all employees to work flexibly from CPS
offices about the network, undertaking site working/site visits as required; note all CPS works are undertaken as night works. Therefore, overnight site visits may be required to inspect the asset portfolio, inspect works and engage with teams.

Connect Plus (CP) is the consortium that manages the 30-year National Highways flagship M25 DBFO contract, with over 140,000 assets and a management system certified to ISO 55001. The contract end date is 2039. Connect Plus Services (CPS), a Balfour Beatty, AtkinsRealis and Egis Roads Operation UK Joint Venture, operates and maintains the M25 motorway network on behalf of Connect Plus (CP).

Can be based at Dartford, Leatherhead or South Mimms office.
**What you'll be doing**
The AIP Lead, is the Asset Management Strategy Sponsor, and is accountable
for the strategic asset management, planning, and performance of the M25 DBFO portfolio including Paved Areas, Structures, Dartford Crossings and the wider Tunnels and Ancillaries portfolio.

This role supports the delivery of a TOTEX investment approach that is applied
across Planned Maintenance, Lifecycle Renewals, and Improvements, with projected investments exceeding £70 million per annum over the remaining 15 years of the contract.

Providing strategic direction and leadership, the AIP Lead, will interface with the
specialist asset management teams across a diverse range of assets, including:

- Technology
- Tunnel mechanical and electrical systems
- Lighting
- Pavement
- Structures
- Drainage
- Vehicle restraint systems
- Road markings & signage.

The AIP Lead, will also oversee and engage with the Asset Delivery team and Commercial Team supporting that agreed project, programme and portfolios plans remain on track in terms of time, quality and performance.

You will highlight and escalate delivery issues where necessary, ensuring the
business is aware of any asset or operational impacts caused by delays or failures.

Asset Managers to ensure our forward-looking positions exhibit strong alignment
with business and asset management objectives and retain a strong focus on
deliverability.

A key aspect of the role is effectively communicating the asset strategy— explaining decisions, priorities, risks, and opportunities to a diverse audience. The role also requires building and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including CPS functions, supply chains, and clients.

**Who we're looking for**
- A relevant professional qualification, ideally Chartered / Incorporated status
with a recognised and relevant UK institution.
- Experience of asset investment and delivering value for money management in a construction-critical infrastructure environment.
- Strong stakeholder influencing and management skills.
- Project focussed leader with demonstrable experience building collaboration in teams for continuous improvement.
- Experience of working in a Joint Venture or similar arrangement (desirable).
- Experience of roads / tunnels and/or highway structures asset management (desirable).
- Good grasp of data analytics and data driven decision making.
- Development / Use / Implementation of Decision Support Tools and Asset Management systems.

**Why work for us**
Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

**Why join us?**

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

- Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.
- 25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)
- Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave
- Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more

**About us**
Connect Plus Services (CPS) brings together the collective strength of our parent companies - Balfour Beatty, Atkins and Egis Road Operation UK. With around 600 people, based at eight locations across the M25 network, we work on behalf of Connect Plus and National Highways to manage the operation of the M25 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, from routine maintenance to managing the whole-life requirement of thousands of assets across the network.

**Diversity and inclusion**

Job Reference: BBUK15604