Senior Project Manager

HS2 (High Speed Two); Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading rail infrastructure company in Birmingham is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of complex railway systems projects. You will manage contract awards, ensuring delivery of projects on time and within scope. Ideal candidates should possess extensive project management experience, problem-solving skills, and a degree in relevant fields. Another key focus is fostering an inclusive environment and implementing effective collaboration within teams to achieve overall project success.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to develop, plan, and integrate projects effectively.
• Experience managing multiple workstreams and stakeholder demands.
• In-depth understanding of project management knowledge at an advanced level.

Responsibilities

• Oversee project management support for assigned projects.
• Ensure successful delivery of Railway Systems objectives.
• Manage change from construction teams and escalate issues as necessary.

Skills

Project management

Problem solving

Decision Quality

Clear direction

Influencing & Negotiating Skills

Collaboration

Education

Degree in project management, engineering, or commercial management

Job description

Job Description

Location: Birmingham

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 Purpose

As a Senior Project Manager for Rail Systems delivery project(s) at HS2 you will be responsible for the successful delivery of the contract(s) to time, budget, scope and quality. You will manage the preparation for contract award and delivery of the works. You will be joining HS2 at an exciting time as we move into contract award. The scope of the contracts will bring innovative technology to the UK railway and support delivery of this transformational project.

This project management role is within the HS2 client team responsible for the design and construction of the Washwood Heath rolling stock depot & Network Integrated Control Centre (NICC) in Birmingham. The depot will serve as the main rolling stock maintenance hub for the HS2 fleet and as a result contains a complex mix of civil engineering, buildings and rail systems scope.

About the Role

• To be responsible for providing project management support to one or more of the Heads of Delivery / Project Client for their allocated project.
• To be responsible for supporting in the successful delivery of Railway Systems objectives outcomes.
• Interface with relevant Railway Systems stakeholders, for their project, as required.
• To be responsible for the monitoring of the change generated from both the Construction/Delivery teams is appropriately managed; including scope changes and cost changes that impact on the affordability of the project, escalating issues to Client Director / Head of Delivery as required.
• To be responsible for robust reporting on the progression of their project deliverables to the Head of Delivery and more broadly within the Railway systems programme at any required forums / panels, on a routine and ad hoc basis.
• To be responsible to Head of Delivery for ensuring that project plans are developed, maintained, and analysed in order to identify and mitigate delivery risks.
• To be responsible to Head of Delivery in identifying and ensuring that appropriate mitigating actions are implemented to address potential milestone slippages and escalating issues as required.
• To be actively involved in the integrated HS2 team, including matrixed team members and any agency staff or consultants, providing day to day co-ordination to deliver project and / or contract requirements to the agreed schedule.
• To manage the package contractor(s) to ensure successful delivery of the project to time, budget, scope, and quality.
• To ensure the project is successfully integrated with other related HS2 and Network Rail projects.
• To manage the solution development of the named delivery projects.
• Responsible for providing controlled input to the Client Cost Estimate(s), delivery logistics, key milestones and time, cost, quality and safety targets to ensure objectives are achieved in line with overall programme plans.
• Responsible for managing and delivering the required assurance and governance process across the named delivery project(s).
• To undertake the duties of the Project Manager under an NEC3 contract.
• 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.

About You

Skills:

• Project management - the ability to develop, plan and integrate projects to optimise target costs and project benefits. Skills profile aligned to APM Project Manager (advanced).
• Problem solving - identifying problems and reviewing related information to manage the development and evaluation of options and the implementation of solutions. This includes the management and planning of multiple workstreams, considering the competing demands of stakeholders, cost, time and quality.
• Decision Quality - identifying the necessary information, managing the gathering and synthesising of that information, facilitating the identification of options and the application of judgement based on logic and reason.
• Clear direction - Analysing inputs, assessing data, defining strategies and documenting supporting rationales.
• Influencing & Negotiating Skills - including internal functions, external supply chain partners and other stakeholders.
• Collaboration - communication, openness, fostering debate, adaptability and agility and, achieving consensus whilst dealing with dissent.

Knowledge:

• Understanding of the project management knowledge aligned to the level of APM Project Manager (advanced).
• Understanding of the ethical and legal framework of public procurement.
• Understanding of the technical elements and architecture of the relevant scope of work within the overall HS2 programme.
• Understanding of the nature of the relevant contract structures and the design and application of appropriate contract and supplier performance systems.
• Understanding the relationship between contract reporting, project cost reporting, programme and business reporting and the criticality of this to business performance.
• Understanding of risk identification and management.
• Understanding of project schedule management, dependencies and risk assessment.
• Understanding of stakeholder management and creation and maintenance of a collaborative working environment involving multiple parties with differing priorities and agendas.
• Degree level qualification in project management, engineering, commercial management and/or the equivalent experience.

Type of Experience:

• Experience of the entire project lifecycle including planning, procuring, developing and implementing railways systems project activities.
• Experience of working across functions and disciplines to deliver complex objectives.
• Experience of supporting, developing and managing people directly and in a matrix environment.

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. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process - YouTube

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.