HS2 Project Manager Permanent

HS2 Project Manager

Role description:
As part of our Project Management team, you’ll be working on a huge breadth of UK-based Rail opportunities. It’s stretching, rewarding and will take your career to the next level.

To do it, you’ll need energy, agility and an eye for detail – as well as being able to deliver for multiple clients every day.

Role accountabilities:
Client facing Project Management role in the rail industry handling multiple projects and clients.
Work within established financial systems and clear project objectives to produce plans schedules and track budgets, highlighting variances to manage and control project delivery targets.
Deliver/assist to manage small to medium scale projects or programmes of work, ensuring appropriate use of resources to deliver the required scope of work within set deadlines.
Present any project risks or issues to senior managers to ensure the project is not adversely impacted, and ensure the delivery of projects to compliant standards.
Evaluate and review a range of data to identify key themes and trends and use the outputs to produce recommendations that support the project.
Use knowledge and experience to review project processes and policies, providing advice to support management in developing and improving processes and systems.
Interact effectively across the organisation, completing complex professional level tasks for others to ensure projects/programmes can be delivered to meet customer expectations.
Advise colleagues on issues relating to own projects, providing subject matter advice to support delivery and ensure there is alignment between policy and operational practice.
Collaborate with stakeholders and third-party contractors, to ensure all parties are informed and aware of project progress and expectations.

Qualifications & Experience:

Stakeholder Management skills
Experience of managing the scoping and design process.
Technical Background not essential but an aptitude to understand rail technical issues and work with relevant Subject Matter Experts to deliver the best outcome for the client.
Focus on client experience and adding Value to the client.
Focus on delivery of benefits and outcomes to the Client.
Exposure to Programme Management would be an advantage.
Working within and influencing a wider project team/organisation towards a common goal.
Membership and/or working towards Chartership of the Association for Project Management (APM) or other similar professionally recognised status.