Project Manager in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Project Manager
Work from home/Milton Keynes
£338 /day PAYE - £450 /day UMB
12 months
My client is a well-established Nationwide transportation company whose professionalism and well-respected name, have been instrumental in their success. They provide an exceptional service to their customers and are focused on continually improving this.
In this role you will be supporting the mobilisation of delivery activities within the European technology and innovation Horizon Europe programme called Europe's Railway joint undertaking.
Key Responsibilities:
- Management and delivery of plans to ensure all necessary preparation and execution tasks and dependencies are included.
- Ongoing management of those plans to achieve the delivery goals.
- Work with key stakeholders to manage the deployment of all aspects of the project assigned to Identify and mitigate potential risks for delivery of products.
- Operate as a full member of the team; supporting the Programme Manager and other team members as directed.
- Influence and understanding of governance arrangements proposed by the European Commission for the programme, this is critical as Commission funded joint undertakings carry specific and complex governance arrangements.
- Internal coordination of input to the delivery programme with technical resource across the organisation
- Achieve maximum value for money out of our delivery of the Shift2Rail programme by influencing scope discussions to pursue innovations developed in the first programme to higher Technology readiness levels (TRLs)
- Establishment of robust budgets and plans in place for the delivery phase.
- Achieve value for money by early engagement with the supply chain to set out delivery framework and contracts.
- Influence the European agenda at European forums to ensure maximum efficiency through steering scope specifications.
- Embedment of lessons learnt both in delivery and governance from the current Shift2Rail programme (this project is successor to Shift2Rail)
- Maximise leveraged funding opportunity through early and consistent stakeholder engagement at pan European level.
Minimum Requirement:
Candidates must understand these rail systems - Train Control/Signalling, power supply and systems integration.
- Working exposure to R&D projects
- Governance experience
- Working with European partners
- Rail industry experience is favourable
- This post will play a key role in Europe's Railway Joint Undertaking (ERJU) delivery team operating within Technical Authority’s Research, Development & Technology function.
For more information and a full job description, email your C.V to j a k e . p a r k e r @ v i t a l . u k . c o m
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