Senior Project Manager - Interchange

HS2 (High Speed Two); Birmingham; On-site; GBP 81,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

HS2 Ltd in Birmingham seeks a Senior Project Manager to lead a multidisciplinary team delivering Interchange Station work valued over £500m. You will steer risk, interfaces and external stakeholders to ensure on‑time, on‑budget delivery with a strong emphasis on collaboration and safety.

This role requires active leadership, NEC3 experience, and a commitment to HS2's values and EDI principles across the project and supply chain.

Qualifications

• Experience managing full project lifecycles on major projects.
• Ability to lead cross‑functional teams and stakeholders to delivery.
• Strong understanding of risk management, scheduling and governance.

Responsibilities

• Fulfill NEC3 Project Manager duties for Interchange Station on behalf of Project Client.
• Lead design and construction contract management via project team and delegated tasks.
• Collaborate with supply chain and HS2 Project Controls for insightful reporting.
• Manage delivery of consistent design and construction contract performance.
• Review and accept programme schedule; monitor risks and dependencies.
• Support CDM duties and external interfaces.

Skills

Project Management

Problem Solving

Decision Making

Influencing & Negotiating

Building Relationships

Education

Degree in project management, engineering, commercial management or equivalent

Job description

Job Description

Location: Birmingham

Salary: £80,940 to 111,578 (inclusive of 20% flex fund)

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.

Senior Project Manager

This role is responsible for leading a multidisciplinary team to deliver Interchange Station (value of over £500m) on behalf of the Project Client, including driving delivery through working collaboratively with the designer and the contactor and managing risk, internal and external interfaces, dependencies and external stakeholders to enable efficient delivery of assigned scope to budget, time and quality. This is a values-led leadership role that requires effective decision making, relationship building and clear direction and accountability of the HS2 team and the supply chain.

About the Role

• To be responsible for fulfilling the duties and obligations of the NEC3 Project Manager on behalf of the Project Client for the full Interchange Station scope.
• To be responsible for effectively and efficiently managing the design and construction contracts through leadership of the project team and undertaking delegated responsibilities from the Project Client.
• To be responsible for working with the supply chain and HS2 Project Controls to create insightful reporting that enables effective decision making at project level and clear points of escalation to the Project Client and beyond.
• To be responsible for establishing, monitoring and managing the delivery of consistent design and construction contract management, including identification of emergent or integration problems, leading the multi-functional team to resolution.
• To be responsible for managing and monitoring contract performance in collaboration with the HS2 commercial team.
• To review and accept programme schedule.
• To be responsible for proactively managing risks within the Integrated Project Team scope and support the mitigation of HS2 programme level risks.
• To be responsible for the Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM) duties as delegated by the Client Representative.
• To be responsible for the interface with HS2 teams external to the Interchange Project Team, and supporting any third party works and interfaces.
• To be responsible for supporting a collaborative culture which enables high performance by encouraging innovation and knowledge sharing between HS2 as the client, other Integrated Project Teams and the supply chain within Integrated Project Teams.
• 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, dependencies, risk management and project benefits. Skills profile aligned to APM Chartered Project Professional or equivalent qualification/skill level.
• Problem Solving - the ability to identify problems and review related information in order to manage the development and evaluation of options and implementation of solutions, including the ability to manage and plan multiple workstreams and consider the competing demands of stakeholders, cost, time and quality.
• Decision Making - the ability to identify, manage, gather and synthesise the necessary information and facilitate the identification of options and the application of judgement based on logic and reason Analysis - the ability to analyse inputs, assess data in order to assist in the development of strategies and document supporting rationales.
• Influencing & Negotiating - the ability to influence and negotiate with internal functions, third parties and external supply chain partners.
• Building Relationships - Ability to establish and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders and suppliers to resolve emergent risk situations.

Knowledge

• Understanding of the project management knowledge aligned to the level of APM Project Manager (advanced).
• Understanding of the technical elements and architecture of the relevant scope of work within the overall HS2 programme, including interdependencies.
• Understanding of the nature of the relevant contract structures and the design and application of appropriate contract and supplier performance systems.
• Understanding of risk identification and management.
• Understanding of project schedule management, dependencies and risk assessment.

Type of Experience

• Experience of the entire project lifecycle including planning, procuring, developing and implementing project activities on major projects.
• Experience of testing and commissioning across complex technical integration projects, preferably within a complex buildings environment.
• Experience of leading, managing people and working across functions and disciplines to deliver complex objectives, preferably as part of a wider integrated programme of work.
• Degree level qualification in project management, engineering, commercial management or the equivalent experience.

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.