Job Description
Base salary: £84,300 to £112,987 per annum, depending on skills and experience. Additionally, a flexible benefits fund of 20% of base salary, fully pensionable, is provided. HS2 Ltd promotes inclusion and offers flexible working, professional development and a supportive environment.
About The Role
- Own the development and maintenance of an integrated baseline across scope, time, cost, risk and quality for multiple development and delivery areas.
- Provide strategic insight on inter‑dependencies, trends and performance to senior leaders, supporting trade‑off decisions.
- Ensure adherence to Programme Management Office (PMO) and Project Controls policies, processes and standards.
- Lead and coordinate project controls activities within the supply chain, portfolio, projects or contracts, guaranteeing accuracy and quality of cost, risk and schedule information.
- Promote consistent approaches to project controls across the portfolio, ensuring data integrity.
- Support, challenge and influence senior leaders across HS2 and the supply chain to make decisions that deliver the best for HS2, holding the supply chain to account.
- Provide strategic analysis of data and reports, delivering insights and trends on performance and risk to support decision‑making.
- Manage the correlation of schedule, cost, quality and risk to drive efficient programme delivery and performance.
- Own and manage portfolio‑wide risks, leveraging SME advice and specialist knowledge to address delays and issues.
- Lead and coordinate change management, assessing and managing impacts on the baseline.
- Co‑ordinate dependencies across delivery areas, ensuring baseline and delivery integration.
- Lead communication of period reporting cycles, ensuring compliance with the reporting life cycle and sharing lessons and best practice.
- Provide functional line management, performance management and objective setting support to direct reports.
- Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and support organisational EDI initiatives.
Skills
- Clear Direction – ability to define, prioritise objectives, analyse inputs and provide rationales.
- Complex Problem‑Solving – identify complex problems, analyse data, evaluate options and implement solutions.
- Decision Making – gather and synthesise information, apply judgement based on logic, and make use of analytical approaches.
- Influencing & Negotiating – internal and external functions.
- Effective Verbal & Written Communication – tailored messages and accurate reporting to stakeholder groups.
- Relationship Skills – build and maintain effective relationships with diverse stakeholder groups.
Knowledge
- Core Project Controls disciplines: schedule, cost, change and risk management.
- Baseline development and maintenance on programmes.
- Project and commercial management principles, including cost delivery and schedule targets.
- Understanding of NEC contracts, amendments, early warning notices and contractor‑client workflows.
Type of Experience
- Leading large project controls teams on complex programmes and managing multi‑discipline teams.
- Demonstrable experience in baseline maintenance, schedule management, cost performance, change and risk management, and performance reporting.
- Experience with key Project Controls systems (e.g., Primavera P6, Prism, CEMAR).
- Facilitating performance reviews and presenting to senior stakeholders.
- Managing and influencing governance forums, including partnering boards and joint venture partner boards with delegated decision‑making powers.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
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.
Immigration and Sponsorship
HS2 Ltd does not hold a sponsorship licence and cannot provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application. Certain time‑bound visas may not be accepted.
Pre‑Employment Checks
Any offers will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre‑employment checks including nationality & immigration status, employment references, DBS, financial and education checks.
Behaviour Expectations
The post‑holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect.
