Rail Technical Project Leader: Delivery & Innovation

Connected Places Catapult; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9 day fortnight for everyone, every o.

23.5 holiday entitlement for everyone

Competitive pension, up to 10% company

Two paid days of volunteering leave

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Cycle to Work Scheme

Cash Health Plan

Payroll Giving scheme

Discounts and offers

Mortgage Advice benefit

Job summary

Connected Places Catapult in London or Milton Keynes is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead complex, innovation-led rail projects. You will translate client needs into structured delivery plans, manage governance and ensure on-time, on-budget outcomes while coordinating across engineering and business teams.

Your background in project delivery and rail engineering will help you drive bid activity and apply lessons learned to grow the Rail portfolio with a client-focused

Qualifications

• Holds a recognised project management qualification such as APM PMQ, PRINCE2, Agile PM, PMP or equivalent.
• Identify new methodologies or approaches.
• Identify solutions beyond the tried and tested methods.
• Collaborate effectively across teams and disciplines.
• Influence effectively in projects and tasks.
• Customer perspective is understood and applied.
• Uses multi-channel communication to ensure clarity and connection on activities.
• Able to plan and deliver on multiple activities.
• Respond to and learns from change with ease.
• Embed inclusive and sustainability practices in planning and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Leading rail projects through initiation, planning, mobilisation, delivery, monitoring and completion.
• Translating client and engineering requirements into structured project plans, deliverables, milestones and work packages.
• Establishing and maintaining effective controls for scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, quality and change.
• Coordinating multidisciplinary teams and ensuring that technical and project activities remain aligned.
• Supporting requirements management, system integration, testing, validation, verification, assurance and acceptance activities.
• Ensuring that project governance, documentation and reporting are accurate, timely and appropriate for clients and senior stakeholders.
• Managing relationships with clients, partners, suppliers and industry stakeholders.
• Facilitating technical discussions, project reviews, workshops and decision-making forums.
• Identifying delivery concerns early and leading the development of proportionate mitigations and recovery actions.
• Supporting commercial management, including forecasting, resource planning, change control and monitoring delivery against budget.
• Lead and coordinate proposal writing activities, ensuring high-quality, client-focused submissions are delivered to challenging timescales.
• Identify and support opportunity development, follow-on work, client engagement and business development activities across the rail portfolio.
• Capturing lessons learned and promoting consistent project management and governance standards across the Rail portfolio.
• Communicating complex engineering and project information clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

Project Leadership

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Change management

Planning & scheduling

Risk management

Inclusive practices

Education

APM PMQ / PRINCE2 / PMP or equivalent certifications

Job description

Connected Places Catapult in London or Milton Keynes is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to lead complex, innovation-led rail projects. You will translate client needs into structured delivery plans, manage governance and ensure on-time, on-budget outcomes while coordinating across engineering and business teams.

Your background in project delivery and rail engineering will help you drive bid activity and apply lessons learned to grow the Rail portfolio with a client-focused