Lead Technical Assurance Manager in Birmingham

Base salary: £61,622pa to c.£83,191pa depending on skills and experience.

In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% paid on top of base salary, fully pensionable, and a range of competitive benefits.

HS2 Ltd fosters an inclusive working environment, flexible arrangements, staff networks, training and professional development.

Job Title

Lead Technical Assurance Manager.

About The Role

The Lead Technical Assurance Manager leads a team of Technical Assurance Managers and is responsible for the correct and consistent application of technical assurance processes across multiple workstreams and contracts.

The role ensures self‑assurance, integration activities and system functionality meet HS2’s standards, supporting the delivery of the operational high‑speed railway.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate a consistent application of technical assurance processes by the supply chain, HS2 project teams, and system integration design, test & commissioning management teams, across multiple contracts, workstreams and delivery phases.
• Facilitate adequate Supply Chain planning and progressive self‑assurance of their own works, undertaking review and acceptance of technical assurance completion evidence submissions made at stage completion milestones.
• Likewise facilitate progressive self‑assurance of activities undertaken by HS2 project teams and discipline subject matter experts (SMEs) in relation to their own deliverables, as well as planned reviews and acceptance of technical assurance stage completion submissions made by the Supply Chain Contractors.
• Assist the Head of Technical Assurance with the development of the department’s own business as usual and process improvements workstream planning.
• Maintain reporting metric against key performance indicators and provide regular progress reports on contracts and aspects of system integration responsible for receiving acceptance of technical assurance.
• Co‑ordinate and manage the Senior Technical Assurance Manager(s) and Technical Assurance Managers under their line management in undertaking additional department tasks instructed by the Head of Technical Assurance, such as supporting continuous improvement through the further development, improvement, or communication throughout the business of technical assurance process, procedures, and guidelines in use.
• Monitor and review ongoing levels of resource capability and competency within the supply chain and HS2, identifying areas requiring attention to de‑risk the delivery of the works and associated technical assurance products.
• Oversee the HS2 application of mandatory and additional verification activities undertaken by HS2 and their delivery partners of the contracted works ensuring that it is commensurate with a justifiable risk‑based approach to ensure a fully assured product is received by HS2.
• Liaise with other HS2 functions, such as safety, risk, requirements, configuration management, documentation control, information management (BIM) and inter‑related engineering discipline SMEs to ensure sharing of information, the acceptance of technical assurances and the resolution of issues.
• Support the HS2 Head of Engineering and/or Environment or other Technical Lead appointed in reviewing and accepting Contractor’s L3 self‑assurance evidence and the management of additional L2 system level verification activities.
• Assist the Technical Audit Team with preparation, planning and undertaking of technical assurance reviews/audits, and the recording of observations and action.
• General line management of teams, planning future resource needs, undertaking performance assessments, and holding regular team and individual one‑to‑one meetings, etc.
• Planning and management of team workloads in relation to assigned workstreams / tasks.
• Assessment and consolidation of the team’s performance through monthly HS2 reporting to the Head of Technical Assurance.

Skills

• Possess technical competency in one or more engineering discipline or inter‑related engineering support discipline.
• Possess a good understanding of system engineering, quality assurance control, configuration management, technical governance techniques, safety hazard and risk analysis and practices as applied to major infrastructure and/or railway transportation projects.
• Competent in working within a digital data and information environment.
• Ability to work effectively in a multi‑disciplinary team and able to manage input from SMEs, providing specialist technical support and leadership.
• Capable of defining and developing strategy, and authoring technical process, procedure and planning documentation.
• Ability to deliver educational briefings/presentations.
• Possess general commercial awareness, and ideally possess NEC3/4 contract management experience/knowledge.
• Able to provide technical support and take ownership of technical assurance aspects of multiple contracts, but also knowing when to seek further guidance from department management, SMEs or others support role personnel.
• Responsibility for collation of technical assurance evidence from appointed Delivery Organisation Contractors and/or HS2 workstream discipline engineers and project teams.
• A good team player, able to supervise others, mentor and guide other Technical Assurance Managers working with/for you.
• Ability to consolidate teams reporting to inform HS2 monthly reporting requirements to the Head of Technical Assurance.
• Knowledge
• Knowledge of problem solving and integration using systems engineering techniques within major infrastructure or railway transportation sectors.
• Knowledge of both qualitative and quantitative assessment techniques.
• Knowledge of system V lifecycle approach to planning, designing, implementing, managing, operating, and decommissioning complex systems.
• Chartered Engineer/Membership of an appropriate professional institution or the equivalent experience.
• An understanding of CENELEC EN 5012x series of standards covering railway functional safety and software related objectives and processes.
• Knowledge of the principles of ISO 9001 – Quality Management Systems.
• Knowledge with the principles of change and configuration management, such as ISO 10007.
• An understanding of the roles and responsibilities under Construction Design Management (CDM) Regulations and of the European derived Common Safety Methodology (CSM) legislation.
• Knowledge of working within an NEC3/NEC4 contract environment.
• Knowledge of technical governance, safety hazard and risk analysis practices as applied to major infrastructure and/or railway transportation projects.
• Knowledge and experience in undertaking technical requirements compliance verification and validation management of design and construction on infrastructure or railway transportation projects.
• Understanding and application of system‑domain integration, test and commissioning of hardware, software and application data configuration management and change control.

Experience

• Experience in using desk‑top application tools HS2 utilise, such as: Microsoft Office / 365 suite, Microsoft Teams, Bentley Asset Wise ALIM or e B, Bentley Project Wise, IBM DOORS, Relatics, CEEMAR, Xactium‑Riskonnect, and AIMS.
• Experience in implementation and delivery of technical assurance within a data‑centric environment demonstrating the evidence captured meets the criteria of the delivery plans and needs of key stakeholders that will use the information for the authorisation of the railway, in particularly for interoperability and safety, among of user case needs.
• Experience of managing and implementing quality assurance and/or system engineering principles on large scale infrastructure or railway/transportation projects, with emphasis on applying principles relating to requirements and standards compliance, safety and the environment, and the ability to articulate others.
• Experience within a technical environment liaising with Contractor’s design, construction and project management personnel.
• Experience of managing competing project and engineering demands and deliverables with cost and schedule implications.
• Experience of multi‑discipline programmes within any of the following fields: Civils, Mechanical & Electrical, Signalling , Control systems or system engineering and integration.
• Experience in process and procedural improvements development.
• Experience in preparing technical assurance evidence cases.
• Experience in the day‑to‑day line management of teams, planning future resource needs, performance assessments etc.
• Experience of planning team workloads and workstreams / tasks.
• Experience in collating, reviewing, analysing, communicating and reporting progress and issues to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

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.

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