A highly experienced Project Manager with a professional engineering degree and with a minimum of 10 years’ relevant experience in the railway sector. The successful candidate must demonstrate the ability to implement, deliver and close complex planning requirements with a proven track record in successful delivery and have strong organisation and leadership skills. The TSSSA Manager has the overall responsibility in the delivery of all activities relating to the services provision. This includes the preparation and management of project plans and progress reporting and attending the Project Review Meetings.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Deliver procurement and contract management services in accordance with the policies, processes and procedures
• Monitor expenditure against contract and ensure that actual spend profiles are within contract budget. Accountable for contractual performance and reporting on performance to the client;
• Project Programme compliance ensuring that all plans are produced in the required format/hierarchy/structure and contain the relevant information;
• Monitor and review contract performance through agreed performance measures (KPIs). This could include the following dimensions –
  payments; variations; demand planning and inventory data management; technical support; supplier interfaces; warranty claims; repairable float management; responsibilities for spares and repairs supply and material ownership
• Conduct regular contract reviews meetings, internally and with the client as appropriate at the Project Review Meetings; Facilitate internal interfaces with client on material availability, warranty, stores and failure information.
• Prepare reports on TSSSA contract performance, budgetary variations and supply of information required by contracts to be provided to and received
  from TSSSA suppliers
• Schedule and run end of contract performance reviews against contractual obligations.
• Working with the manufacturing facility to ensure that the depot organisation is able to deliver the commissioning programme for the Units;
• Developing, managing and delivering the mobilisation stages of the contract;
• Setting up, monitoring and management of the procedures and processes required to deliver the Services for the client
• Ensuring that all resources are in place for the delivery of the Services.
• Manage any contract disputes that may arise and subsequently escalating when necessary.

Qualification: Engineering Degree – Mechanical or Electrical

Experience – 10 Years in a similar role