Teams at High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd

Leads commercial management for major infrastructure contracts, covering pre-contract strategy, procurement, tender evaluation, contract administration, cost verification, performance reporting, change and risk governance, dispute resolution, savings opportunities, and contractor relationships. Provides commercial assurance to senior leadership, develops policies and processes, reviews estimates, and leads commercial staff development. Requires substantial experience managing complex infrastructure contracts and teams, particularly within publicly funded programmes.

Lead multidisciplinary project management teams delivering complex construction contracts within HS2 Integrated Project Teams. Manage NEC3 contract obligations, performance, risks, schedules, interfaces, dependencies, stakeholders, and supply-chain relationships to achieve budget, time, quality, and safety objectives. Support client-retained works, testing and commissioning, contract resolution, and collaborative delivery across HS2 and external partners.

Supports HS2’s system-level performance, reliability, availability and maintainability requirements across the railway lifecycle. Responsibilities include defining multidisciplinary requirements, coordinating interfaces and technical solutions, disaggregating obligations into delivery contracts, tracking progress through system-level reviews, and supporting testing, commissioning and in-service reliability analysis using DRACAS and FRACAS. The role works with engineering, operations, maintenance and safety specialists and requires knowledge of UK construction regulations, safety methods, standards and engineering project delivery.