Lead Project Controls Manager

Base salary: Starting from £102,429.6 pa which includes a 20% Flex fund, depending on skills and experience.

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 the Lead Project Controls Manager you will be responsible for driving the development of the project baseline across scope, time, cost, risk and quality for the Rail Development directorate, providing strategic insight and analysis of performance against the baseline and highlighting any trends or risks to support decision making.

About the role:

- To be responsible for driving the development and maintenance of the Rail Development integrated baselines across scope, time, cost, risk and quality for a number of development/delivery areas

- To be responsible for ensuring adherence with Project Controls policies, processes and standards across a number of development and delivery areas of the HS2 Ltd Programme and across the supply chain, portfolio, projects or contracts

- To be responsible for managing and co-ordinating project controls activities within the supply chain, for projects or contract to assure the accuracy and quality of cost, risk and schedule information being captured

- To be responsible for promoting and applying consistent approaches towards project controls across the Portfolio and contracts and leading the assurance of Project Controls Data across a portfolio or project

- To be responsible for strategic analysis and insights of the data and reports submitted and providing insights & trends on performance and risks to support decision making

- To be responsible for managing the periodic correlation of schedule, cost, quality and risk to drive expedient programme delivery and manage performance whilst capturing and analysing cost data, including inputting cost data into HS2 data capture systems

- To be responsible for reviewing supply chain programme submissions and updating client schedules

- To be accountable for managing risks for Rail Development, leveraging SME advice and technical knowledge from specialists to respond to project delays, issues and other challenges throughout the project

- To be responsible for managing and co-ordinating the change management process, ensuring impacts to the baseline are effectively assessed and managed.

- To be responsible for managing the co-ordination and communication of the Period reporting cycle ensuring compliance with the reporting life cycle, and undertaking self-assessment of procedural compliance, sharing lessons and best practice within the Project Controls community

- To be responsible for providing functional line management, performance management and objective setting support to direct reports within PC & Commercial team

- Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI

About you:

Skills:

- Clear Direction - Ability to give clear direction. Defining and prioritising objectives, analysing inputs, assessing and challenging data, defining strategies and supporting rationales

- Complex problem solving – ability to identify complex problems. Review, analyse and interpret a wide range of data and evaluate options and implement solutions. This includes the management and planning of multiple workstreams and the competing demands of stakeholders

- Stakeholder management - Ability to manage stakeholders; building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders as appropriate

- Effective verbal and written communication skills - communicate effectively with people at all levels within HS2 Ltd, adapting any messages as appropriate. This will include producing accurate, timely and informative reports in multiple formats targeted to the needs of the audience and presentations to the board

- stakeholder groups which includes the HS2 executive team, central government, local government, professional bodies, internal stakeholders and JV board stakeholders

- Decision Making - ability to gather and synthesise information, identify options and apply judgement based on logic and reason and make use of a variety of analytical approaches to provide relevant information to suppliers, stakeholders and decision makers using key facts and data

- Facilitation – Ability to manage workshops to solve critical problems and provide clear direction to team members on the actions needed to manage and mitigate any critical issues

- Influencing and Negotiating skills – including internal and external stakeholders

- Data Analysis and Presentation – Ability to analyse and interpret data and produce accurate, timely and informative reports in multiple formats targeted to the needs of the audience

- Knowledge of the core Project Controls disciplines, including; Schedule Management, Cost Management, Change Management and Risk Management

- Knowledge of baseline development and maintenance of baselines on a programme

- Knowledge of the Project and Commercial Management principles including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets

- Understanding of NEC contracts, amendments, early warning notices and the work flows of communications between contractor and client

- Experience in leading project controls teams on projects/programmes within a complex delivery programme including the management of multidiscipline project controls teams

- Demonstrable experience in the core project controls functions, including; baseline maintenance, schedule management, cost performance, change management, risk management and performance reporting

- Experienced in the management and control of key Project Controls systems (e.g. Primavera P6, Prism, CEMAR, etc.)

- Experience of managing and/or influencing governance forums including partnering boards, collaboration boards, local/regional political stakeholders and Joint Venture partner boards with delegated decision-making powers of multimillions of pounds

Knowledge:

- Knowledge of the core Project Controls disciplines, including; Schedule Management, Cost Management, Change Management and Risk Management

- Knowledge of baseline development and maintenance of baselines on a programme

- Knowledge of the Project and Commercial Management principles including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets

- Understanding of NEC contracts, amendments, early warning notices and the work flows of communications between contractor and client

Type of Experience:

- Experience in leading project controls teams on projects/programmes within a complex delivery programme including the management of multidiscipline project controls teams

- Demonstrable experience in the core project controls functions, including; baseline maintenance, schedule management, cost performance, change management, risk management and performance reporting

- Experienced in the management and control of key Project Controls systems (e.g. Primavera P6, Prism, CEMAR, etc.)

- Experience of managing and/or influencing governance forums including partnering boards, collaboration boards, local/regional political stakeholders and Joint Venture partner boards with delegated decision-making powers of multimillions of pounds

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.

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