Assistant Project Manager

Location Birmingham, London and/or Project Collaboration office.

Salary Base salary: £30150pa to c.£37,700pa (Birmingham) c£33,850 to c£42,350pa (London) 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 HS2 enters its next exciting phase of railway systems delivery, we are thrilled to launch our recruitment to grow our client project management team. We are looking for talented Project Managers of all levels to lead delivery across the railway systems portfolio.

We are growing our team as in the coming months, we will be awarding major railway systems contracts including:

• Overhead catenary systems
• SCADA systems
• Signalling
• Telecommunications
• Track
• Washwood Heath rolling stock maintenance depot

In addition to discipline-specific roles, we are also recruiting for our programme integration team. We welcome applications from individuals with rail sector experience as well as those looking to change industry.

If you are a visionary leader with a passion for project management and a drive to excel in the delivery of cutting-edge railway systems, we would love to hear from you. Join us in shaping the future of high-speed rail as we lead innovation and excellence in the delivery of railway systems.

As an Assistant Project Managerat HS2 you will be responsible for providing project management support to the Senior Project Manager / Project Manager (Rail Systems) and the Rail Systems Programme

About the role:

• To be responsible for providing project management support to one or more of the Rail Systems Senior Project Managers / Project Managers for their allocated project.
• To be responsible for supporting in the successful delivery of Railway Systems objectives outcomes.
• To be responsible for contract management support for Railway Systems
• Interface with relevant Railway Systems stakeholders, for their particular project, as required
• To support 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 the Senior Project / Project Manager as required
• To support robust reporting on the progression of their project deliverables to the Senior Project Manager/ Project Manager and more broadly within the Railway systems programme at any required forums / panels, on a routine and ad hoc basis
• To support the Senior Project Manager / Project Manager for ensuring that project plans are developed, maintained and analysed in order to identify and mitigate delivery risks
• To support the Senior Project Manager / Project Manager in identifying and ensuring that appropriate mitigating actions are implemented to address potential milestone slippages and escalating issues as required
• 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 plan and integrate programmes of work and effectively manage those projects.
• Collaboration Skills – ability to interact with Programme/Project Managers and colleagues in many different disciplines across HS2 to achieve successful outcomes.
• Communication and Influencing Skills – ability to produce clear communications which engage and influence colleagues and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Reporting – ability to provide reports for internal and external governance forums.
• Computer literate and proficient at using Office productivity and team working applications

Knowledge:

• Understanding of project and programme management.
• Understanding of how businesses and organisations operate, their role(s) within them, and how they contribute effectively as part of a team.

Type of Experience:

• Experience in a business/commercial environment
• Experience of developing management competencies within a project or programme.

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.