Asset Information System Specialist

Location: London and Birmingham

Salary regional: “Base salary: £30,150pa to c.£37,700pa depending on skills and experience.

Salary London: “ Base salary: £33,850pa to c.£42,350pa depending on skills and experience.

In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% 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 an Asset Information System Specialist at HS2 you will be responsible for supporting HS2 in the form of Asset Information System administration and related system configuration activities. You will be working within the Digital Engineering team supporting delivery functions and interfacing with the Asset Information Team, System Supplier end users and other technical teams with a particular focus on Asset Information data, GIS, CAD. The role will be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Asset Information System configuration, supporting system integration, data and reporting functions to ensure effective asset data management and compliance of data quality & assurance processes.

About the role:

• Responsible for management of the configuration of the Asset information Management System, HS2’s asset register and maintaining quality system configuration documentation and keeping it up to date and ensuring that an effective data management plan is developed, implemented, and regularly reviewed to ensure data security, integrity, quality, and auditability.
• Responsible for resolving technical queries, issues, assisting users and updating user guides to keep them up to date with system changes.
• Responsible for monitoring system performance, analysis of reported or potential issues, managing and raising support calls with the system vendor.
• Responsible for producing requirements specification for system development/enhancement.
• Responsible for coordinating with software vendors to be fully compatible with HS2 requirements, specification and standards.
• Responsible for integration and reporting, new and updated Asset Information software acceptance testing, to ensure the releases meet requirements along with providing support where required.
• Responsible for compliance with Digital Engineering standards, specifications and operating procedures within HS2 and Suppliers.
• Responsible for developing and delivering training and support to relevant HS2 business functions, Delivery Teams and our Suppliers regarding HS2 standards, specifications, tools and operating procedures.
• Responsible for promoting and providing upskilling material for HS2’s Digital Engineering upskilling platform and delivering presentations to internal and external audiences on relevant system functionality.
• Responsible for identifying areas for system improvement and feedback into information requirements, specification development and standards creation.
• Contribute to the management of the HS2’s Common Data Environment and governance of information, with a particular focus system configuration.
• Enable integration and interaction of the Asset Information Management System into with other CDE systems.
• Contribute, when required, to undertake transformation of data for other functional uses within HS2 and facilitating appropriate data assurance and approval by others.
• Support and undertake asset data loading, extraction and cleansing when required.
• Contribute to the delivery of the Digital Engineering programme. This could include but is not limited to, benefits realisation, integration and evolution of data standards and tools, and raising awareness of HS2’s Digital Engineering strategic goals within HS2, Supply Chain and external stakeholders.
• You will be expected to 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

• Ability to analyse user requirements or process changes and carrying out impact assessment on the Asset Information Management System
• Ability to diagnose, analyse and investigate issues/problems relating to the Asset Information Management System
• Automation and integration
• Database design, development, and implementation
• Asset data assurance techniques and processes.
• Communication skills to support training and upskilling.
• Stakeholder Management – Identification of stakeholders, analysis of their expectations and requirements, and development of appropriate strategies to work with stakeholders.
• Communication - Ability to manage relations with both internal and external stakeholders. Good negotiation skills to manage expectations.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of and familiarity with Asset Information Management Systems and how they support asset design, construction , operations and maintenance , and asset management strategies.
• Knowledge of procedures and Information System requirements for rail or other asset intensive infrastructure environments
• Knowledge of systems administration and configuration management
• Knowledge of asset data and ontologies
• Awareness of Asset Management techniques and principles
• Knowledge of system administration and system testing techniques
• Knowledge of xml and web services testing
• Knowledge of data quality techniques and data assurance processes
• Knowledge of BIM Processes as outlined in ISO19650 and related industry standards
• Knowledge of Information governance and change control processes and methodologies
• Awareness of Data Integration, Analytics and Visualisation
• Awareness of Data specialism: CAD data management
• Awareness of data specialism: Geospatial data management

Experience

• Data management, and data quality & assurance experience throughout the entire project lifecycle.
• Experience of working with open formats to enable data interoperability and encourage a software agnostic approach.
• Experience of Asset Information System Management preferably for rail or other asset intensive infrastructure environments
• Experience of working within set standards, processes and systems but with an expectation to contribute to decision making on process improvement.

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.

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