Project Manager

Salary: £60,000 – £63,066 per year

Project Manager – Digital Engineering

Looking for a Project Manager to work within the Digital Engineering Programme working for the public funded organisation building the UK’s High Speed Rail Network. The role is located from offices in central Birmingham with flexible hybrid working arrangements.

The Project Manager will work with the Digital Engineering Programme Manager to deliver a diverse range of Digital Engineering projects, based on prioritised business need. Ensuring delivery of capability including supporting business change and transition through to operational service. Role will also include supporting programme and department administration tasks.

The successful candidates doesn’t need to have previous experience within the Digital Engineering field, however, understanding and experience delivery Data Projects or indeed how data is stored and processed within a company’s enterprise architecture of a company will be very useful. The Digital Engineering Programme withing HS2 encompassing multiple data sources: BIM, GIS (geospatial data), Asset Data, CAD Data all of which will help create a ‘Digital Twin’ – virtual representation that serves as the real-time digital counterpart of a physical asset or in HS2 case a complex system of physical assets. Creating this ground-breaking digital twin will allow the organisation to virtually build, operate and maintain the railway creating huge efficiencies and improvements

The Project Manager will manage a group of medium to large projects across domains, which will deliver new capability to Digital Engineering for HS2 users. The role will coordinate teams made up of in house and contracted third parties to deliver outcomes within the boundary of project. The project manager will be required to make decisions which are relevant to the projects under their control and within the tolerance levels set by the Digital Engineering Programme; Informing programme budget and business planning. The role will manage from initiation of project through discovery, proof of concept, delivery, and hand over to business as usual. All project artefacts will be coordinated into relevant repositories and scope, resource and budget will be tracked in relevant project tracking documents.

Excellent opportunities for future development, training and indeed progression with significant pay rises.

Working Situation – Hybrid

Role is office based from Euston, London coupled with Hybrid working – expectation is to work 2 days a week from the office and the rest of the time at home once Omicron has passed (currently working from home following Government guidance).

Duties & Responsibilities

* Lead the planning, management and delivery of Digital Engineering projects, with adherence to the Digital Engineering Programme Governance Framework; and ensure all other areas of HS2 governance processes are adhered to.

* Capture new business requirements with outcomes that are specific, measurable and aligned to Digital Engineering strategy and how these are best delivered through the programme.

* Manage scope, time, budget and quality to ensure controls are maintained with tolerances set by Programme Board. Assisting with development of budgets and forecasts for future projects.

* Continuously monitor projects for risk, issues and regulatory compliance and take appropriate action to mitigate/escalate in a timely manner.

* Build, maintain and manage stakeholder relationships (Business teams,, delivery partners & vendors) during project delivery.

* Working with Digital Engineering domain leads and the Strategy team to ensure Change Management activities are delivered to the right people at the correct time.

* Production of reports to detail progression of project covering task completion, risk and issues, finance and resource profiles. Repots will consist of weekly highlight report, monthly board report and ad hoc reporting as required.

* Management of contract renewals, including all spatial data licensing and related procurement activities, across Digital Engineering to ensure existing contracts are renewed on time.

* Support the Programme office with delivering the Digital Engineering Strategy.

Required Criteria

Looking for a Project Manager or Assistant Project Manager who has strong Project Managers skill set: understand initial scope, manage the budget, schedule, risk management, strong communications & stakeholder management skills.

The successful candidates doesn’t need to have previous experience within the Digital Engineering field, however, understanding and experience in of delivery Data Projects or indeed how data is stored and processed within a company’s enterprise architecture of a company will be very useful. As would experience project managing Digital Transformation Projects.

Skills:

* Leadership – Ability to lead a team for the delivery of a business goal.

* Interpersonal skills to motivate project team.

* Stakeholder Management – Identification of stakeholders, analysis of their expectations and influences, 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.

* Scheduling – Ability to create a task-based plan and then mange resources to deliver the plan.

* Risk Management – Ability to identify and log risks which could impact the project or develop into issues. Knowledge of risk management.

* Cost Management – Ability to help develop project budget and control during progression of the project.

* Quality Management – Ability to develop a quality plan to oversee the delivery of the product/service to the stated level indicated by the project.

* Organisation – Ability to plan the use of your time and others to meet deadlines. Self-organising is key.

* Using Initiative – Ability to use your initiative and make decisions under pressure.

Knowledge:

* Knowledge of Microsoft Project.

* Degree Educated or qualifications in Project Management (APM, Prince2, MSP), Business Management, Computer Science, or Information Systems.

* Knowledge of different project frameworks and techniques.

* Knowledge of Digital landscape and impact of digital transformation within an organisation.

* Knowledge of government procurement and commercial management.

Type of experience:

* Experience delivering projects in a client facing environment.

* Experience of working in complex multi project environment delivering a range of projects for more than 12months.

* Experience of matrix-managing multi-disciplinary teams in a dynamic environment

* Engagement and persuasive approach in dealing with decision makers at all levels