Head of Project Controls

HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd; London; On-site; GBP 91,000 - 114,000; Full time

Job summary

HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd seeks a Head of Project Controls in London. The role involves developing project baselines across scope, time, cost, risk, and quality, providing insights to senior leaders. Ideal candidates should possess strong experience leading project controls teams and managing complex stakeholder relationships.

Benefits

Flexible benefits fund of 20% on top of base salary

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in leading large project controls teams.
• Demonstrable experience in baseline maintenance, schedule management, cost performance.
• Knowledge of Project Controls disciplines including Schedule Management, Cost Management.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain an integrated baseline across scope, time, cost, risk, and quality.
• Ensure adherence to Programme Management Office and Project Controls policies.
• Lead project controls activities and assure project performance.

Skills

Complex problem solving

Decision Making

Influencing and Negotiating Skills

Effective verbal and written communication skills

Relationship skills

Education

Degree in Project Management or related field

Tools

Primavera P6

Prism

CEMAR

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Job Description

Base salary: c£91000pa to £113750 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% (up to a maximum of £20000) which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

Job Description

Base salary: c£91000pa to £113750 pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% (up to a maximum of £20000) which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As the Head of Project Controls you will be responsible for developing and integrating the project baseline across scope, time, cost, risk and quality for a number of development and delivery areas of the HS2 Programme. The role will develop strategic insight on performance and trends to support senior leaders across HS2 and the Supply Chain in making trade off decisions that best ensures the delivery of programme benefits.

About The Role

• To be responsible for owning the development and maintenance of an integrated baseline across scope, time, cost, risk and quality for a number of development / delivery areas, providing strategic insight on inter-dependencies, trends and performance, along with providing subject matter expert advice to senior leaders in managing the successful delivery of the HS2 project
• To be accountable for ensuring adherence with Programme Management Office (PMO) and Project Controls policies, processes and standards across a number of development and delivery areas of the HS2 Programme
• To be responsible for leading and coordinating project controls activities within the supply chain, portfolio, projects or contracts to assure the accuracy and quality of cost, risk and schedule information being captured
• To be accountable for promoting and applying consistent approaches towards project controls across the Portfolio and contracts and leading the assurance of Project Controls Data across a portfolio or project
• To be responsible for supporting, challenging and influencing senior leaders across HS2 and the Supply Chain to ensure ‘best for HS2’ decisions and be accountable for holding the supply chain, development and / or delivery areas to account, working with leaders across HS2 and the supply chain to highlight trends and performance insights
• To be responsible for providing strategic analysis of the data & reports submitted and to provide insights and trends on performance, risks to support decision making and to provide periodic project performance updates to the key senior stakeholders, with strategic insights and trends to support development and delivery trade off decisions
• To be responsible for managing the periodic correlation of schedule, cost, quality and risk to drive expedient programme delivery and manage performance
• To be responsible for owing and managing risks across a portfolio of projects, leveraging Subject Matter Expert (SME) advice and technical knowledge from specialists in responding to project delays, issues and other challenges across a number of development and delivery areas
• To be responsible for leading and co-ordinating the change management process, ensuring impacts to the baseline are effectively assessed and managed.
• To be responsible for managing and co-ordinating dependencies across a number of delivery areas, ensuring baseline and delivery integration
• To be accountable for leading the co-ordination and communication of the Period reporting cycle ensuring compliance with the reporting life cycle and undertaking self- assessment of procedural compliance and sharing lessons, best practice within the Project Controls community
• To be responsible for providing functional line management, performance management and objective setting support to direct reports
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI
  
  

Skills

About you:

• Clear Direction – define and prioritise objectives, analyse inputs, assess data, define strategies and provide supporting rationales. Ability to direct the broader team on the actions needed to manage and mitigate any critical issues
• Complex problem solving – ability to identify complex problems. Review, analyse and interpret a wide range of data and evaluate options and implement solutions. This includes the management and planning of multiple workstreams and the competing demands of stakeholders
• Decision Making – ability to gather and synthesise information, identify options and apply judgement based on logic and reason and make use of a variety of analytical approaches to provide relevant information to suppliers, stakeholders and decision makers using key facts and data
• Influencing and Negotiating Skills – including internal and external functions
• Effective verbal and written communication skills - communicate effectively with people at all levels within HS2 Ltd, adapting any messages as appropriate. This will include producing accurate, timely and informative reports in multiple formats targeted to the needs of the audience and presentations to the board
• Relationship skills – ability to build and maintain effective relationships with diverse stakeholder groups which includes the HS2 executive team, central government, local government, professional bodies, internal stakeholders and JV board stakeholders
  
  

Knowledge

• Knowledge of the core Project Controls disciplines, including Schedule Management, Cost Management, Change Management and Risk Management
• Knowledge of baseline development and maintenance of baselines on a programme.
• Knowledge of the Project and Commercial Management principles including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets
• Understanding of NEC contracts, amendments, early warning notices and the work flows of communications between contractor and client.
  
  

Type Of Experience

• Experience in leading large project controls teams on large projects / programmes within a complex delivery programme including the management of multi-discipline project controls teams
• Demonstrable experience in the core project controls functions, including baseline maintenance, schedule management, cost performance, change management, risk management and performance reporting.
• Experienced in the management and control of key Project Controls systems (e.g. Primavera P6, Prism, CEMAR, etc.)
• Experience of facilitating and administering performance reviews and presentation with senior stakeholders
• Experience of managing and / or influencing governance forums including partnering boards, collaboration boards, local/regional political stakeholders and Joint Venture partner boards with delegated decision-making powers of multi-millions of pounds
  
  

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

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Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.

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