Access Planner

About The Role

As the Access Planner you will coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure access requirements are met across the region, resolving conflicts and promoting collaborative site-sharing. The role leads regional planning efforts, balancing long-term strategic programmes with short-term operational needs to maintain network efficiency.

By maintaining accurate records and engaging with authorities and third parties, the post holder ensures compliance with permits, Traffic Orders, and departure processes. You will support integrated planning meetings, contribute to smarter, digital-first planning tools, and provide regional insights to optimise programmes and minimise disruption to road users.

Can be based at Dartford, Leatherhead or South Mimms depots.

What you'll be doing

• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure access requirements are met across the region, resolving conflicts and promoting collaborative site sharing.
• Lead regional planning efforts, balancing long-term strategic programmes with short-term operational needs to maintain network efficiency.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of access schedules, approvals, and traffic management allocations.
• Engage with National Highways, local authorities, and third-party stakeholders to ensure compliance with permits, Traffic Orders, and departure processes.
• Support integrated planning meetings and contribute to the development of smarter, digital-first planning tools and processes.
• Provide regional insights and reporting to inform programme optimisation and minimise disruption to road users.
• Undertake any other duties as required by the business.

Who we're looking for

• IT qualified with high computer literacy; capable of handling large volumes of data and using complex IT tools to present information clearly.
• Proven experience in governance, compliance, and quality assurance processes.
• Highly developed problem-solving skills with excellent interpersonal, influencing, communication, and organisational abilities.
• Demonstrated ability to influence internal and external stakeholders, ideally within an operational highways or infrastructure environment.
• Broad understanding of roadspace and scheduling processes for planning works onto the network.
• Proficiency in planning and scheduling systems, with strong document control and audit experience.

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?

Benefits

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…

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

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). 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. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: ***email_hidden***