Location
Birmingham or London
Salary
Birmingham: Base salary £41,092pa to c£48,344pa depending on skills and experience.
London: Base salary £44,380pa to c£52,212pa depending on skills and experience.
Flexible benefits fund of 15% paid on top of base salary and fully pensionable. We also offer a range of competitive benefits – see benefits on our website.
About the Role
As a Configuration Controller you will support and govern the technical authority communication and technical change process, serving as focal point for all change related matters. You will support the Configuration Managers with CSR submissions and Contract Baseline administration.
Responsibilities
- Create/register technical authority communications (TAC)/ Technical Change Requests (TCR) in Bentley eB within agreed timescales and to a high data quality.
- Check TAC/TCR quality prior to TAuP to ensure they are fit for governance board approval.
- Review governance board minutes and approve TACs/TCRs in the CM tool based on board approvals and communicate CM tool approval to stakeholders and originators.
- Prepare submissions packs (Technical Chance Requests (TCR), TACs etc.) for governance board meetings, advising secretariat of items that are ready to be presented to the board.
- Maintain a register of TACs including governance board decisions, TCR relationship and maintain the status of TACs. Work with the governance board secretariat on the implementation of TACs across all delivery areas.
- Provide weekly TCR/TAC status reports and ensure TCRs/TACs are being progressed in a timely fashion to meet business objectives and Lead Discipline Engineer priorities.
- Plan and co‑coordinate TCR/TACs with the Lead Discipline Engineers to ensure business priorities and milestones are achieved.
- For TACs with related Trends/Changes that require additional funding from Delivery Directorates, work with the Engineer community and Commercial Managers to resolve and communicate.
- Co‑coordinate and communicate the implementation of TACs into the HS2 Configuration baselines with the Configuration Managers.
- Maintain the Technical Change Work Instruction/Technical Authority Communication Work Instruction and Training material in line with the HS2 Technical Change Procedure. Provide technical change control training and communication to all users of the process.
- Maintain and test the CM tool process in line with the Work Instructions.
- Provide administrivia support to the Configuration Managers when contract baselines are being updated.
- Provide administrivia support to the Configuration Managers when contract submissions (CSR) are being verified.
- 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.
Skills
- Ability to coach the engineering/project team to successfully achieve CM change delivery milestones.
- Ability to manage stakeholder engagement (i.e CM Team, Delivery Team, PMO, CM change/communication interfaces).
- Ability to perform and manage technical change process from start to finish.
- Data input and analysis skills.
- Forward thinker able to work on own initiative.
Knowledge
- Understanding of CM Standards (Def Stan 05-57/EIA-649/ISO10007/ICM CMII/CMMI).
- Understanding of Railway industry standards and business operations.
- Knowledge of Systems lifecycle and change lifecycle.
- Proficient in MS office packages.
- Knowledge of Technical/Quality Assurance principles advantages.
Experience
- Worked in multi‑discipline cross‑functional environments, across different industries and at all parts of the system lifecycle.
- Maintained a change control process within a complex programme environment.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
HS2 Ltd does not hold a sponsorship license. 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. We actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in all work and support all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
