Head of Stations Commissioning (FTC until end of March 2020)

Location: Westferry Circus - London

Salary: Based on skills and experience

Crossrail will change the way people travel across London – whether they’re meeting a busy work schedule or working out at the gym. But it’s more than a railway. It will support regeneration across the capital and could add up to £42billion to the economy. And, as you build up your expertise working with the latest technology, we’ll help you to enhance your performance too.

We are currently seeking a Head of Stations Commissioning, to enable delivery of the Crossrail Programme by coordinating and overseeing activities between the delivery and other directorates to fulfil the requirements for testing and commissioning of the Crossrail stations, shafts and portals for the Central Section.

Through the appropriate use of monitoring and reporting processes, checking that testing and commissioning activities for stations are managed in a safe, efficient and cost-effective manner within the parameters of the contracts; supporting the Business in defining strategy for the execution of works within the directorates and checking that resources are engaged in a timely manner to assist Crossrail in delivering the works.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that individual projects within the delivery and technical directorates understand and comply with the requirements of the Testing and Commissioning Strategy and relevant contractual documents.
• Developing and maintaining key strategies for Testing and Commissioning of Stations, Shafts and Portals.
• Establishing the programmes for testing of integration scenarios and managing their delivery.
• Providing a source of expertise of stations commissioning for escalation of issues relating to testing and commissioning of stations.
• Establishing intervention teams to support stations in the final phases of commissioning and in stances where a project is struggling with progress in testing and commissioning.
• Providing professional leadership across the programme area of Testing & Commissioning of stations.
• Reports to Testing & Commissioning Director
• Works closely with other delivery directors, lead quality manager, chief engineer, head of systems integration, construction/field engineering manager, project managers, directorate support teams, infrastructure managers and other third-party stakeholders
• Assisting in coordination of relationship management between the technical and delivery directorates, Crossrail operations and maintenance, the infrastructure managers, Network Rail, MTR-C and other stakeholders involved in stations testing and commissioning activities.
• Take reasonable care of your own and others’ health and safety and of those who may be affected in the day-to-day delivery of this role by taking personal responsibility for working to the Crossrail Target Zero principles.
• Co-operate with Crossrail in all matters relating to health and safety, including following safe working procedures at all times
• Act as a role model for Crossrail’s vision and values, behaving in ways that are in alignment with Crossrail’s Ways of Working. Encourage and support others to do so too
• Promote equality in the workplace and adopt appropriate behaviour when interacting with colleagues

Person Specification

• Expert knowledge and experience in commissioning of underground stations,
• Qualified to Chartered Engineer or equivalent
• Ability to effectively organize and staff a project team in a matrix organization.
• Working knowledge of standard infrastructure project management tools, techniques and procedures including: Project Controls, Financial management, Automation, including standard office tools, Records management, Root Cause Analysis
• Knowledge and experience in Project Execution Plan development and implementation
• Knowledge and experience in contracts/subcontracts formulation, risk analysis, negotiations, and implementation including: Change control and documentation management, Cost trend program and its linkage to change control,
• Knowledge of cross functional work processes and interface knowledge, especially Project Controls, Supply Chain management, Quality management, Design Assurance and the ability to manage the relationships/interfaces with management and functional groups.