Network Co-ordinator

**About the role**
Balfour Beatty are currently looking for a Network Co-ordinator to join our Connect Plus Services (CPS) team based at either **South Mimms, Dartford or Leatherhead.**

This role co-ordinates the booking of road space on the M25 and other roads within the Area 5 network to ensure that bookings meet the information quality and time requirements of National Highways and that opportunities to share road space are maximised.

The role will support other Network Co-ordinators with the Road Space team to ensure that work-load is managed efficiently and evenly distributed across the team to manage peaks in workload as well as absence.

The Network Co-ordinators will work closely with a range of stakeholders including CPS Service Delivery, framework contractors and local highway authorities to ensure that regulatory requirements are adhered to and strong relationships are developed and maintained.

The role will require a detailed knowledge of the CPS Road Space Booking system (NOMS) and the National Highways NEMS system.
**What you'll be doing**
Process road space bookings including the following activities:

- Reviewing bookings in the CPS NOMS system for data accuracy and that booking information meets minimum requirements.
- Liaising with applicants to ensure that clashes are being resolved in suitable timescales.
- Transferring booking information accurately from the CPS NOMS system to NH NEMS system within appropriate timescales.
- Identifying opportunities for road space sharing and liaising with applicants to ensure the opportunities are realised.
- Processing Traffic Orders and Local Authority permits for bookings for Service Delivery activities as required.
- Obtaining agreement for departure requests from NH (for non-standard working hours) where necessary
- Participating in weekly road space co-ordination meetings and following up actions where required
- Developing and maintaining strong relationships with all stakeholders

**Who we're looking for**
The following qualities/experience are essential:

- Experience of working in a multi-stakeholder environment
- Highly organised and able to handle many ongoing priorities without impact on outputs.
- Experience of working in highways desirable but not essential

**_This role is available part time, job share or full time. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren’t available full time.
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**Why work for us**
CPS is a Joint Venture project with Balfour Beatty, AtkinsRéalis, and Egis. We operate and maintain the M25. The M25 is the busiest section of motorway in Europe and requires careful and efficient planning of work in order to deliver over £100m of annual investment in the highway infrastructure each year, in addition to planned and reactive maintenance activity.

If you have or are looking for a career in Highways, working on the M25 will give you experience and challenge that no other Highways project can offer.
**About us**
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 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.

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.

Job Reference: BBUK08152