Job Purpose

The Northern Powerhouse has been identified as a cornerstone of the UK’s future for economic growth. The Trans-Pennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is a multi-billion pound rail investment programme which will upgrade the route between Manchester and York and is one of a number of programmes that make up the Northern Powerhouse. TRU is split into three programme areas: East of Leeds, Leeds Central and West of Leeds. This role is to be a Project Manager to on the East of Leeds programme known as Transpire. The programme is being delivered under an alliance agreement between Network Rail and a number of selected alliance partners.

As the Project Manager in the Transpire Alliance you will be accountable for managing a series of projects from early design and development to construction and handback in accordance with agreed deadlines and within budget.

Key Accountabilities

• Deliver the project(s) safely to time, cost and quality, in accordance with the Governance for Railway Investment Projects (GRIP), applicable Railway Group standards, the Transpire Alliance governance, and other specific legislation.
• Aligning the project(s) with the overall Amey business strategy and processes.
• Manage geographically spread multi-disciplinary alliance teams including: design, environmental, consents, commercial, procurement, estimating, programme controls, engineering, lean, survey, construction, health and safety; and others to identify and deliver solutions to meet the client requirements and establish a robust baseline plans.
• Lead the constructability input into the design process to ensure buildability of the project(s).
• Support the consents team to obtain all consents for the project(s) to meet delivery timescales including identifying opportunities to gain efficiencies via obtaining consents route wide for the portfolio.
• Confirm and validate engineering access requirements to deliver the project(s).
• Lead the production of the delivery schedule to drive requirements to align with the wider engineering access and consents strategy.
• Co-ordinate survey inputs to meet the overall project(s) delivery requirements.
• Pass the project(s) specific Stage Gates and support in the integration of the project(s) into the portfolio Stage Gate.
• Lead the development of the Target Cost proposal with the alliance and supply chain for the next stage delivery of the project(s).
• Identify and monitor project risks (threats and opportunities), plan and implement mitigations to them, and respond to other issues that affect the project.
• Assist the Company in discharging its Principle Contractor duties under CDM Regulations 2015 (Construction, Design and Management Regulations).
• Provide a professional, first class, consistent and effective project management service to the clients, including project monitoring and reporting systems in accordance with the Transpire Alliance processes.
• Promote continuous improvement of the project(s).
• Deliver the project(s) in line with the Common Safety Method (CSM) and Technical Specification of Interoperability (TSI) standards.
• Implement and update resource allocation plans needed for delivery of the project including identification and management of critical resource requirements. Secure resources needed for projects from internal and external sources.
• Identify training needs in safety, technical and management areas for the personnel reporting to the post holder and contribute to their personal development.
• Undertake accident investigations when remitted to by the relevant designated competent person.
• Establish, and implement where necessary, protocols to change the scope of projects and updating configuration documents as required.
• Support managing stakeholders and ensuring project solutions meet their needs where possible.

Job skills, experience and qualifications

Essential

• Relevant successful experience in project managing the delivery of multi-disciplinary railway projects under the Governance for Rail Infrastructure Projects (GRIP). Key disciplines include: track and signalling.
• Team leader capable of motivating the team
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent commercial and financial understanding and knowledge
• Detailed knowledge of Construction Design & Management (CDM) Regulations 2015.
• Excellent knowledge of Health, Safety and Environmental Regulations
• Accident investigation experience

Desirable

• Relevant successful experience in project managing the delivery of journey time improvement rail systems projects.
• Educated to degree level in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of Network Rail’s Project, Investment, Commercial and Procurement practices.
• Knowledge of Network Rail’s assets and how they are managed.
• Knowledge and experience of the CSM & TSI processes
• APMP qualified or equivalent with the the Association for Project Management (APM) or a other professional body.
• Membership (or working towards membership) of the APM or a other professional body.
• PTS and ICI

Role specific profile within the Transpire Alliance

• Management of the development and delivery of multi-disciplinary complex rail systems projects from GRIP 3-8.
• Integrating geographically spread multi-disciplinary alliance teams to take the project(s) from early GRIP 3 to delivery in line with the client requirements

About Amey

Fundamental to living our core values is having great people in our business. That's why we believe that Amey is only as great as the people we employ.

We place great value on our people and the contribution they make to our business, that’s why we aim to offer a competitive benefits package to all of our employees.

Working for Amey you will receive a competitive salary and will be able to join our contributory pension scheme. In addition you will be entitled to Company sponsored life assurance and a generous holiday entitlement. You will also be invited to join Amey Choices which offers a range of flexible benefit options and offers additional benefits available throughout the year.

Amey is an equal opportunities employer.