London, England / contract / Excellent Rates
Lead Portfolio Manager
Contract: 6 months
Location: London/York/Peterborough - Hybrid, 3 days onsite
IR35: Inside IR35
Excellent Rates
*Public Sector Experience and relevant accreditation highly desirable*
*Urgent 6 Month contract - Interviewing and hiring now!*
This is a *London/York/Peterborough* Hybrid based role with an excellent immediate start within a Public Sector organisation working on *Leading projects deploying ETCS across passenger fleets.*
Role Overview
Our client is seeking an experienced Lead Portfolio Manager to support the Passenger ETCS Deployment Programme within the Industry Partnership for a Railway project. The role focuses on establishing and overseeing projects that implement ETCS onboard passenger trains, working across a national portfolio that spans rolling-stock engineering, fleet strategy, operator readiness, programme governance and ETCS deployment.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish projects for onboard ETCS fitment and upgrades.
- Oversee rolling-stock modification and fleet-fitment work.
- Coordinate delivery across operators, engineers, suppliers and industry stakeholders.
- Align fleet projects with the national ETCS deployment strategy.
- Manage dependencies between fleet readiness, engineering and infrastructure.
- Drive projects through governance, assurance and approvals.
- Oversee programme risks, issues, milestones and dependencies.
- Support operator and fleet readiness for ETCS introduction.
- Provide portfolio-level reporting to senior stakeholders.
- Delivered onboard ETCS/ERTMS or major rolling-stock modification programmes.
- Strong project engineering experience in the rail industry.
- Experience in rolling stock, fleet fitment, retrofit, integration or upgrades.
- Strong Project, Programme or Portfolio Management experience.
- Managed complex multidisciplinary rail projects or programmes.
- Strong stakeholder management across engineering, operators, suppliers and leadership.
- Experience with governance, assurance, risk, dependencies and approvals.
Highly Desirable
- ETCS/ERTMS onboard integration or retrofit.
- Rolling-stock modification or upgrade programmes.
- Public Sector experience.
- Train Operating Company or rolling-stock organisation experience.
- Fleet introduction, operational readiness, engineering assurance or approvals.
Ideal Candidate
The strongest candidate combines ETCS knowledge, rolling-stock delivery and senior programme/portfolio management experience - particularly someone who has personally managed onboard ETCS fitment, fleet retrofit or major rolling-stock modification programmes.
We are an equal opportunities employment agency and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.
We champion differences in technology recruitment and work with clients who actively wish to diversify their talent force - ALL applicants are welcome to apply
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