Jobs at High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd

Lead independent commercial assurance reviews across procurement and contract management lifecycles. Produce assurance reports, identify control and compliance improvements, influence senior stakeholders, manage external assurance partners, support policy implementation, and deliver continuous improvement and training activities. The role helps ensure value for taxpayers and compliance with public-sector commercial requirements.

Manage high-voltage rail systems power projects through design, construction, testing, and commissioning. Coordinate internal teams, contractors, suppliers, and Network Rail interfaces to deliver scope, schedule, budget, quality, and safety objectives. Maintain project plans, monitor risks and changes, report progress, manage milestone risks, and support delivery under NEC3 contracts. The role also requires stakeholder engagement, contract management, cross-functional coordination, and promotion of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Manage and coordinate technical change and configuration management across rail infrastructure contracts. Govern changes to requirements and technical baselines, coordinate verification and validation, maintain Technical Change Communication registers, support assurance reporting, and manage interface documentation. The role requires stakeholder engagement across contractors and delivery teams, facilitation of governance forums, risk and impact assessment, and continuous improvement of technical change processes.

Manage supplier CAD data exchanges within HS2’s Common Data Environment, ensuring data quality, assurance, compliance, and interoperability. Analyze root causes of data issues, support Digital Engineering standards and governance, transform data for functional use, and contribute to data standards, tools, and programme improvements. Deliver training and guidance to HS2 teams, suppliers, and stakeholders while supporting BIM, information governance, and digital engineering objectives.

Supports the Senior Project Engineer in delivering safe, cost-effective infrastructure designs from feasibility through detail design. Reviews consultant submissions, assesses compliance with standards, manages design risks and programmes, develops value engineering opportunities, supports environmental and consent documentation, and engages internal, external, and community stakeholders. The role requires civil or mechanical engineering knowledge, understanding of UK construction regulations, commercial awareness, and experience working on complex infrastructure schemes.

Supports the Senior Project Engineer in delivering safe, cost-effective infrastructure designs from feasibility through detailed design. Reviews consultant submissions, assures compliance with technical requirements, manages design risks and programmes, develops value engineering opportunities, supports environmental assessments and consent documentation, and engages with stakeholders, local communities, and supply chain partners. The role requires civil or mechanical engineering knowledge, UK construction regulation awareness, design consultant management experience, and strong communication skills.

Leads security interfaces between HS2 and its supply chain, producing and assuring security design deliverables for stations and the future railway. Reviews designs against UK standards and legislation, supports security and design panels, contributes to hazard records, and coordinates with government, police, and infrastructure stakeholders. The role provides physical security expertise covering security systems, blast mitigation, hostile vehicle mitigation, regulatory compliance, and assurance processes in a safety-critical rail environment.

Supports the Traffic Manager in coordinating contractors, consultants, highway authorities, utility companies, and community teams. Reviews traffic management plans, construction programmes, highway consent applications, and temporary traffic management records. Provides assurance that traffic obligations, legislation, environmental commitments, and HS2 Act requirements are met. Compiles reports, presentations, and data models while maintaining accurate programme documentation and supporting efficient approvals.

Leads commercial and contract management for major infrastructure delivery contracts. Responsibilities include developing procurement and contract strategies, evaluating tenders, administering NEC3 obligations, managing variations, payments, costs, risks, performance reporting, disputes, savings initiatives, governance approvals, and contractor relationships. The role also leads commercial staff, supports policy development, and provides assurance and advice to senior stakeholders.

Manages HS2’s briefings, correspondence, Freedom of Information and Environmental Information Regulation services. Oversees statutory requests, parliamentary questions, ministerial correspondence, stakeholder communications and senior briefing materials. Advises executives on legislation, manages complex cases and external relationships with government and regulatory stakeholders, leads BCFOI advisers, delivers training, monitors risks, and supports public affairs and speaker engagement activities.

Supports the Project Manager in managing NEC3 construction contracts, supplier performance, risks, early warnings, schedules, and client-retained works within an Integrated Project Team. The role coordinates HS2 and supply-chain stakeholders, supports CDM responsibilities, manages competing priorities, and contributes to delivery against budget, time, quality, and safety requirements. It also promotes collaboration, innovation, knowledge sharing, and equality, diversity, and inclusion across project teams.

Manage the integration of railway systems packages with civils, stations, Network Rail, contractors, and other stakeholders. Coordinate project plans, schedules, dependencies, risks, changes, costs, reporting, and mitigation actions. Support delivery across the project lifecycle, from pre-contract award through design, installation, testing, and commissioning, while coordinating matrixed teams and external suppliers to achieve time, budget, scope, quality, and safety objectives.

Leads the multidisciplinary team delivering the £500m+ Interchange Station project. Responsibilities include managing NEC3 design and construction contracts, project scope, schedule, cost, quality, risk, interfaces, stakeholders, suppliers, reporting, testing and commissioning. The role provides senior leadership, fulfills delegated client duties, oversees contract performance, manages project controls, supports CDM compliance, and drives collaboration across HS2 teams and the supply chain.

Leads complex, high-value civils and construction procurements for HS2, developing procurement strategies, tender documentation, evaluations, approvals, governance, and contract awards. Manages procurement professionals, ensures legal and commercial compliance, secures value for money, reports procurement performance, presents to boards, and engages senior stakeholders. The role also drives innovation, risk management, benefits realization, team development, and adherence to UK procurement legislation and NEC contract principles.

Develops and manages NEC contract scope and business requirement documents throughout procurement and contract lifecycles. Collaborates with subject matter experts, reviews documentation for consistency and commercial alignment, eliminates duplication, monitors delivery, manages changes, supports negotiations, and maintains governance. The role requires knowledge of NEC3/NEC4 contracts, procurement, contract administration, risk and value management, and experience delivering complex infrastructure or rail programmes in public-sector environments.

Manages reactive and proactive fraud and ethics investigation caseloads, determines alert causes, supports loss recovery, conducts interviews and risk assessments, and produces investigation reports. The role also delivers fraud awareness sessions, collaborates with compliance, audit, investigatory, and law enforcement bodies, maintains case records, and provides recommendations while promoting organisational policies and equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Leads multidisciplinary project teams supporting HS2’s Washwood Heath integration, managing cross-programme risks, issues, dependencies, stakeholders, schedules, handovers, and transitions. The role coordinates internal teams, contractors, suppliers, and external authorities to deliver integrated railway systems safely, on time, within budget, and to required quality. It also involves leading Project Managers, facilitating governance decisions, optimizing delivery, and promoting collaboration, innovation, and inclusion.

Manage the Washwood Heath overhead project through solution development, procurement, tendering, delivery, governance, risk management, and project integration. Lead integrated teams and coordinate internal, agency, consultant, and supply-chain stakeholders. Develop specifications, evaluation plans, cost estimates, schedules, and delivery logistics while ensuring compliance with procurement legislation, quality, safety, and HS2 procedures.

Manage stakeholder engagement across HS2 Land and Property, maintaining relationships with internal teams, government departments, supply-chain partners, communities, and other external organisations. Handle enquiries and complaints, deliver engagement plans, produce briefings and information materials, analyse stakeholder data and trends, identify risks, and support timely, accurate responses within established processes and governance frameworks.

Manages commercial and contract activities for major infrastructure delivery projects. Responsibilities include NEC3 contract administration, cost verification, payments, variations, performance reporting, commercial assurance, dispute support, savings assessments, risk and change governance, estimate reviews, contractor relationships, and leadership of commercial resources. The role also develops commercial policies and supports procurement, negotiations, stakeholder management, and supply-chain performance.