Project Cut Over Lead

Tarmac Trading; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading infrastructure company in the UK is seeking an ambitious Cutover Lead to join their Transformation team. This hybrid role requires project management delivery to create a coordinated cutover plan encompassing Data, Technical, and Business streams. Responsibilities include overseeing cutover governance, mapping dependencies, and mitigating risks to ensure a seamless transition to business-as-usual operations. Ideal candidates will bring strong project management skills and experience in cutover management.

Qualifications

• Strong project management skills with experience in cutover management.
• Ability to coordinate multiple workstreams and handle critical path activities.
• Excellent risk management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Establish and oversee cutover project plans across Data, Technical, and Business streams.
• Define principles for effective cutover and obtain necessary agreements.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive cutover runbooks and decision logs.

Job description

About the role

We’re currently looking for an ambitious and enthusiastic Cutover Lead to join our Transformation team (Hybrid / On‑site as required during cutover periods)

The role provides project management delivery to create a coordinated cutover plan across the various areas of the programme, covering Data, Technical and Business streams. It is responsible for the end‑to‑end management of the cutover plan, ensuring seamless transition from project delivery to business‑as‑usual operations.

Main responsibilities

In this role you’ll do the following:

• Establish an overall approach and project plans to ensure the 3 major streams of work (Data, Technical, Business) can be delivered in the desired cutover window
• Define and obtain agreement on the principles for cutover
• Oversee/create the Data, Technical and Business plans for cutover
• Develop comprehensive cutover runbooks, checklists and decision logs
• Map dependencies across all workstreams and identify critical path activities
• Establish a cutover governance framework including decision‑making authority and escalation paths
• Identify, track and mitigate cutover risks; maintain RAID log

Provide command and control around the entry into cutover and…