Assistant Project Controls Manager

Starting salary from £36,857.50 which includes a 15% flex fund 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 the Assistant Project Controls Manager you responsible for supporting the development of the project baseline across scope, time, cost, risk and quality for a development or delivery area of the HS2 Programme. It will also support the analysis of performance against the baseline and highlight any trends or risks to support decision making. The role will support controls governance and change management to ensure all impacts to the baseline are assessed and managed.

About the job:

• To be responsible for supporting the development and maintenance of an integrated baseline across scope, time, cost, risk and quality and track performance for projects and contract
• To be responsible for supporting and coordinating project controls activities within the supply chain, projects or contracts to assure the accuracy and quality of cost, risk and schedule information being captured 
• To be accountable for analysing the data and reports submitted to provide insights and trends on performance and risks to support decision making
• To be responsible for supporting the periodic correlation of schedule, cost, quality and risk to drive expedient programme delivery and manage performance, and capturing and analysing cost data, including inputting cost data into HS2 data capture systems
• To be responsible for reviewing supply chain programme submissions and update client schedules
• To be accountable for supporting the identification and management of risks for a development or delivery area of the HS2 Programme, leveraging SME advice and technical knowledge from specialists to respond to project delays, issues and other challenges throughout the project
• To be responsible for supporting and coordinating the change management process, ensuring impacts to the baseline are effectively assessed and managed
• To be responsible for supporting the coordination 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 supporting the assurance of Project Controls Data and adhering with Project Management Office (PMO) and Project Controls policies, processes and standards across development and delivery areas
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI

About you:

Skills: 

• Ability to communicate and develop relationships- Effective interpersonal skills, including tact and influence, with ability to be assertive without causing unnecessary conflict using effective verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to solve problems– identifying problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions
• Data analysis- Ability to analyse and interpret data and producing accurate, timely and informative reports in multiple formats targeted to the needs of the audience
• Presentation skills- Ability to present at Project level; Ability to support workshops to solve critical problems and; Ability to produce and present documents and reports to project and supply chain teams

Knowledge: 

• Knowledge of the fundamentals of one or more of the core Project Controls disciplines, including; Schedule Management, Cost Management, Change Management and Risk Management 
• Basic knowledge of the fundamentals of Project and Commercial Management including understanding of cost delivery, schedule targets

Type of experience: 

• Experience in a project controls role 
• Experience in one or more of the core project controls functions, including; baseline maintenance, schedule management, cost performance, change management, risk management and performance reporting
• Experienced in the use of Microsoft applications (e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) or equivalent
• Experience of supporting the facilitation and administration of project performance reviews and governance meetings

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.

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.

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Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.