Assistant Project Manager
Company
Location
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
12/18/2024
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Description
Job Description
Location: Snow Hill, Birmingham
Salary Base salary: £32,050 pa to £37,700pa 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 an Assistant Project Manager at HS2 you will be responsible for providing project management support to the Senior Project Manager / Project Manager (Rail Systems) on the Overhead Catenary System (OCS) contract.
About The Role
Skills
About You:
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.
About Us
High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.
HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.
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.
HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.
Location: Snow Hill, Birmingham
Salary Base salary: £32,050 pa to £37,700pa 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 an Assistant Project Manager at HS2 you will be responsible for providing project management support to the Senior Project Manager / Project Manager (Rail Systems) on the Overhead Catenary System (OCS) contract.
About The Role
- To be responsible for providing project management support to the Overhead Catenary System (OCS) Rail Systems Senior Project Managers / Project Managers for their allocated project.
- To be responsible for supporting in the successful delivery of the OCS objectives and outcomes.
- To be responsible for contract management support for OCS.
- 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 OCS project 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.
Skills
About You:
- 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.
- 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.
- Experience in a business/commercial environment
- Experience of developing management competencies within a project or programme.
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.
About Us
High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.
HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.
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.
HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.
HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.
Advertise with us.
Please contact: hello@huntukvisasponsors.com
Please contact: hello@huntukvisasponsors.com