Highways Interface Advisor / Project Manager in London, United Kingdom
Highways Interface Advisor/Assistant Project Manager
Network Rail
London
£25,000 - £28,000
Position of dept within Network Rail (NWR)
The LSE Route Asset Protection (ASPRO) dept is part of the London and South East Route of Network Rail. The ASPRO team is based at London Bridge in London and manages projects that are initiated and funded by external clients who wish to construct something over, under or near the railway, and which will affect the railway in some way.
Purpose of the ASPRO team
The team presents the “Front Face” of NWR to the external clients, and as such, has a responsibility in managing client expectations in a professional and effective manner but, at the same time, to ensure that the railway is safeguarded from any ill effects from the external projects.
Scope of the ASPRO Team
The ASPRO team manages hundreds of projects. These projects encompass a huge variety of types and values. Projects range from a few hundreds of thousands to hundreds of millions of pounds of external client expenditure. Types of projects include asset protection to bridges, tunnels, residential and commercial developments, statutory undertakers’ crossings, level crossing alterations, electricity pylons, telecoms masts and a host of others, including major schemes such as Crossrail, as well as hundreds of minor schemes which need a fairly rapid response The essential theme of all these projects is that they must have some impact on the railway that needs project managing by the team in order to reduce the risk to NWR.
Methodology practised by the Team
The team’s involvement is a “cradle to grave” one and starts with initial exploratory meetings or telephone calls when the scope, programme, funding/costs, procurement and other fundamental requirements are understood and agreed. Contracts are negotiated and signed followed by design and construction consents, culminating in the completion and commissioning of the projects. Managers within the team are responsible for portfolios of projects and for ensuring that a professional and effective service is provided at minimal risk to the railway. A great deal of liaison within the company is essential so that all disciplines and departments ( e.g civil, structural, signalling, telecoms, electrification, track, etc,) affected by the external proposals are fully consulted and the results form part of the coordinated requirements presented to the external clients and their agents and consultants. The external clients also pay the team’s costs in full and estimating, cost monitoring, invoicing, payment monitoring and monthly forecasting are also essential activities in the successful management of projects
Management Philosophy
The team welcomes new members. The team’s effectiveness depends on a wide knowledge of project management and all the railway interests of different parts of NWR. Working with others in the company is essential for success. The nature of the team’s work tends to instil a high order of strategic thinking in all the team members, and this can be very career enhancing
Vacancy Description
The Highways Interface Assistant is responsible for providing support within the provision and management of highway interface legislation where Network Rail activities impact upon the public highway and managing a portfolio projects through the various stages of the life cycle and to support and assist the Project Manager in delivering successful outcomes for the overall team activities.
Activities and requirements include:
• Assisting the Project Manager with a portfolio of projects from inception to completion, including assessing project remits, producing cost estimates, schedules of works, negotiating simple agreements with clients, signing off method statements, assessing design approvals required and monitoring site activities.
• Assisting the Highway Interface Manager with highway interface legislation where Network Rail activities impact upon the public highway and effectively manage the Street Works Notice Management System for a defined geographical area.
• Liaise with highway authorities, statutory undertakers and public utilities as required, and advise on attendance at highway authorities’ coordination meetings, where necessary.
• Provide advice internally and externally on Network Rail’s management and delivery of highways interface activities including advice on Network Rail’s notification procedure and timescales.
Essential
• Relevant successful construction experience in the railway industry at a professional level
• Knowledge of Highway legislation
• Commercial, financial and contractual awareness and experience in cost estimating, forecasting and working to budgets and commercial/contractual/ financial criteria.
• Competence in communicating effectively with people from a wide variety of backgrounds, orally and in writing.
• Knowledge and competence in applying management and company/industry standards and practices to day to day work.
• Competence in appreciating the impacts on the railway from the wide variety of projects characteristic of the team’s work.
• Competence in planning activities and thinking clearly about objectives and timescales for achieving them.
• Competence in persuasiveness as applicable to enforcing railway requirements on clients and contractors in a professional manner.
• Appreciation of access planning and possession requirements
• Safety, environmental and quality consciousness.
Desirable
• Ability and experience in managing contractors, consultants and clients.
• Driver of behavioural improvements in both self and others in order to help the whole team succeed in meeting company objectives.
• Educated to degree level in preferably Civil Engineering or related discipline.
• Professional, first class, consistent and effective project management abilities.
• Membership (or working towards membership) of the Association for Project Management or other professional bodies
To apply, please click on the apply button to visit our website.
Closing date: 27 June 2017.
Network Rail welcomes applications from a diverse range of candidates regardless of age, disability, marital status (including civil partnerships), pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, transgender status, sex (or gender), employment status, membership or non-membership of trade union, social class or any other irrelevant factor. We are committed to interviewing all applicants who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria advertised. We are two ticks accredited and we continue to strive to create a workforce as diverse as the communities we serve.
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