Job Overview
Location: Podium, Euston, London
Salary: Base salary c£59,268 pa to £69,727 pa depending on skills and experience. Benefits fund of 20% on top of base salary, fully pensionable. Competitive benefits available.
Job Purpose
We are looking for two Project Managers to work within our Rail Systems Delivery Teams. As the Project Manager at HS2 you will be responsible for the successful delivery of the contract(s) to time, budget, scope, and quality. Experience of working as a Project Manager within Rail is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Provide project management support to one or more of the Rail Systems Senior Project Managers / Heads of Delivery for their allocated project.
- Support the successful delivery of Railway Systems objectives and outcomes.
- Interface with relevant Railway Systems stakeholders as required.
- Support the monitoring of changes generated from both the Construction/Delivery teams, ensuring scope changes and cost changes are appropriately managed and escalation to the Senior Project / Project Manager as required.
- Support robust reporting on the progression of project deliverables to the Senior Project Manager/ Head of Delivery and within the Railway systems programme at any required forums/panels, on a routine and ad‑hoc basis.
- Support the Senior Project Manager / Head of Delivery for ensuring that project plans are developed, maintained, and analysed to identify and mitigate delivery risks.
- Support the Senior Project Manager / Head of Delivery in identifying and ensuring that appropriate mitigating actions are implemented to address potential milestone slippages and escalating issues as required.
- Be actively involved in the integrated HS2 team, including matrixed team members and any agency staff or consultants, providing day‑to‑day coordination to deliver project and / or contract requirements to the agreed schedule.
- Manage the package contractor(s) to ensure successful delivery of the project to time, budget, scope, and quality.
- Ensure the project is successfully integrated with other related HS2 and Network Rail projects.
- Undertake the duties of the Project Manager under an NEC3 contract.
About You – Skills
- Project management – ability to develop, plan and integrate projects to optimise target costs and project benefits.
- Problem solving – identifying problems and reviewing related information to manage the development and evaluation of options and the implementation of solutions, including planning of multiple workstreams.
- Decision quality – identify necessary information, gather and synthesise, facilitate options and apply judgement based on logic and reason.
- Clear direction – analyse inputs, assess data, define strategies, and document supporting rationales.
- Influencing and negotiating skills – internal functions and external supply chain partners.
Knowledge
- Project management knowledge aligned to the level of APM Project Manager.
- Understanding of risk identification and management.
- Understanding of project schedule management, dependencies, and risk assessment.
- Understanding of the complexities of delivering projects with multiple interfaces.
- Degree level qualification or equivalent NVQ in project management, engineering, commercial management, or equivalent experience.
- Knowledge of railway systems advantageous.
Experience
- Managing high‑value, complex projects.
- Project lifecycle from pre‑contract award through design, installation, testing, and commissioning.
- Working across functions and disciplines to deliver objectives.
- Managing people directly and in a matrix environment.
- Managing delivery through external contractors and/or suppliers.
Equal Opportunity Statement
HS2 Ltd does not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office and cannot provide sponsorship. Applicants must have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application.
All offers are subject to satisfactory completion of pre‑employment checks including Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, financial and education checks.
Application Deadline
Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
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