Manages HS2’s programme scope and change management processes, including governance, baselines, contingency management, stage gates, change registers, assurance reviews, and stakeholder reporting. The role evaluates change proposals and their impacts on scope, cost, and schedule, supports delivery teams, maintains programme controls, and drives consistent processes across a major engineering and construction programme.
Base salary: £46,406pa to £54,595pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% 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.
Job Purpose
This role is responsible for working with the Head of Scope & Change to develop, implement and control the HS2 Ltd.’s change management process. This will include governance arrangements, process development and delivery, assurance and management of change control activities.
About the Role
- To be accountable for working with the Sponsorship Directorate to manage the programme scope baseline, taking input from Sponsorship, Planning, Risk and Cost teams.
- To be accountable for inputting into the development of scope and change management policy, processes and standards across the business, taking industry best practice to drive continuous improvement and assure that these are implemented consistently and effectively across development and delivery areas.
- To be responsible for the delivery and implementation of the contingency management processes.
- To be accountable for working with the Sponsorship Directorate to define and own the Stage Gate process, preparing for and providing recommendations to the Stage Gate Panel.
- To be accountable for supporting the change management process, owned by delivery teams, reviewing early warnings, evaluating mitigation options, and providing SME advice into the commitment to and authorisation of compensation and change events.
- To be accountable for conducting quality and assurance checks of submitted change proposals and ensure clear visibility of implications and movements from the programme baseline position in scope, budgets and schedule, raising any issues or risks.
- To be responsible for maintaining the change register and assure reporting of changes at all levels within the programme, regularly communicating status to relevant stakeholders to enable prompt decision making, approvals and financial authorisations.
- To be accountable for developing and maintaining relationships across delivery teams, providing specialist scope and change management support where required.
- 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.
About You
Skills
- Ability to establish and implement processes to alter the scope of change initiatives and implement protocols when necessary.
- Ability to update configuration documentation including contracts, to develop, maintain and apply quality management processes for change initiative activities and outputs.
- Ability to establish and manage reviews, during and after change initiatives.
- Ability to understand the implications of change proposals on the programme and engage with appropriate stakeholders to clearly and persuasively communicate these for their consideration.
- Ability to provide evaluations of progress, methodologies and continuing relevance at the different stages of the project life cycle.
- Ability to work collaboratively and produce clear written and verbal communications.
Knowledge
- Knowledge of Scope & Change Management in a large project/programme.
- Knowledge of the core Project Controls disciplines, including; Schedule Management, Change Management and Risk Management.
- Understanding of baseline control, cost and schedule management methodologies and techniques in large project/programme context.
- Knowledge of all the stages of the project life cycle.
- Knowledge of baseline development and maintenance of baselines on a major programme.
- An understanding of working in an engineering environment and/or major construction project.
Type of Experience
- Experience of managing change control in a project environment.
- Experience of Project Management or Project Controls environments.
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. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process - YouTube
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.
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