Jobs at High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd

Leads local community engagement across HS2 delivery teams, ensuring alignment with the Community Engagement Strategy. Oversees stakeholder communications, enquiries, complaints, engagement events, forums, newsletters, case studies, community investment, benefits engagement, third-party agreement assurance, and site branding. Provides strategic advice and quality assurance in a complex political and regulated environment while building relationships with communities, senior stakeholders, delivery teams, and media.

Manage rail systems and track installation projects through design, construction, testing, and commissioning. Responsibilities include coordinating HS2 teams and contractors, managing scope, cost, schedule, quality, risks, interfaces, change control, reporting, and stakeholder relationships. The role also includes acting as Project Manager under an NEC3 contract and ensuring integration with related HS2 and Network Rail projects.

Conduct fraud, ethics, bribery, corruption, and misconduct investigations across the HS2 project and supply chain. Manage caseloads, gather and assess evidence, produce investigation reports, identify lessons learned, track recommendations, and provide evidence in proceedings. Collaborate with HR, compliance, audit, and law enforcement stakeholders. Support fraud risk assessments, proactive data analytics, ethics and fraud awareness training, and the development of controls and ethical practices.

Supports the Senior Project Manager in coordinating multidisciplinary activities for the NPR Adapted Hybrid Bill through Parliament. Responsibilities include managing contracts, information, evidence, deliverables, milestones, stakeholder meetings, governance, change requests, risks, and supply-chain relationships. The role requires project management, analysis, problem solving, decision-making, negotiation, and knowledge of parliamentary processes, project schedules, dependencies, and risk assessment.

Leads BIM, GIS, CAD, and asset information management for major rail infrastructure programmes. The role assures BIM processes, execution plans, delivery plans, design data, and supplier compliance; monitors information quality and performance; supports technical queries; delivers training; and advises on data governance, security, modelling, and risk mitigation. It also manages CAD and GIS coordinators, collaborates with engineering and digital teams, and drives information-management improvements across the supply chain.

Manages integrated project baselines covering scope, schedule, cost, risk, and quality for HS2 programme areas. Oversees project controls activities, supply chain data quality, performance reporting, schedule and cost analysis, risk management, governance, and change control. Facilitates performance reviews and governance forums, supports decision-making through trend analysis, and provides line and performance management for direct reports.

Manage integrated project controls across scope, schedule, cost, risk and quality for an HS2 programme area. Responsibilities include baseline development, supply-chain controls, performance analysis, reporting, change management, risk management, governance, schedule reviews, data assurance and stakeholder communication. The role also provides line-management support and coordinates project controls teams, systems and governance forums involving significant investment decisions.

Provides financial assurance, governance, forecasting, budgeting, cost control, accounting oversight, and performance management for HS2 directorates. The role challenges forecasts and investment proposals, supports month-end and year-end reporting, manages cash-flow and workforce cost information, ensures compliance with government accounting and IFRS requirements, and advises senior stakeholders on affordability, risks, controls, and programme delivery.

Provides financial assurance, challenge, forecasting, budgeting, cost control, and accounting guidance across HS2 directorates. The role oversees month-end and year-end processes, reviews investment and change proposals, validates expenditure and forecasts, supports business planning, develops cash-flow reporting, and advises senior stakeholders on governance, funding, workforce costs, and programme performance.

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.

Leads risk and opportunity management for an assigned HS2 business unit. Develops integrated risk views, identifies value-creation opportunities, implements risk processes, quantitatively analyzes cost and schedule exposure, produces contingency scenarios, and reports risk information to senior stakeholders. Provides guidance across development and delivery teams, supports supply-chain risk evaluation, manages direct reports, and drives continuous improvement and inclusive risk-management practices.

Leads complex commercial agreements and stakeholder relationships with external third parties for HS2 infrastructure programmes. Responsibilities include developing commercial strategies, negotiating and administering contracts, managing risks and disputes, assuring agreement performance, supporting governance, and embedding contract management plans. The role also provides commercial expertise, represents HS2 with strategic stakeholders, and leads team members while ensuring value for money, compliance, and delivery to cost and schedule.

Leads external and internal communications for HS2, including media relations, crisis and issues management, workforce engagement, public affairs, stakeholder relations, and strategic campaigns. Advises senior leaders and represents the organization with government, Parliament, media, councils, businesses, and communities. Builds HS2’s reputation, communicates the railway’s benefits, manages complex issues, and leads the public affairs team while promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion.

Leads commercial legal advice for high-value procurement, construction contracts, contract management, insurance, FOI, and contractual disputes supporting HS2 railway projects. Advises senior stakeholders, negotiates complex terms, manages external law firms and budgets, provides expertise on UK GDPR and TUPE, supports board reporting, and improves legal processes, training, and templates. Requires a qualified solicitor with extensive utilities procurement and contract management experience, preferably involving NEC3 contracts.

Provides commercial and contract law advice across HS2, including complex construction, procurement, corporate, technology, finance, intellectual property, GDPR, and data protection matters. Leads legal support for procurements, drafts contracts and precedents, advises on claims and disputes, manages external counsel, delivers legal training, supports senior leadership, and supervises junior lawyers. Requires a qualified solicitor or barrister with commercial, procurement, construction, infrastructure, or public-sector legal experience.

Leads cost performance analysis and verification for major programme and contract phases, ensuring accurate budgets, actuals, forecasts, and Earned Value Management reporting. Validates delivery-team data, supports cost performance team management, maintains cost processes and systems, resolves technical queries, aligns cost data with Finance, and implements improved business requirements. Requires strong stakeholder management, project controls knowledge, construction contract awareness, and experience with major-project cost management systems.