Head of Project Controls

4 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom High Speed Two (HS2) Full time

**Base salary: £84300 to c.£105400 depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% (capped at £20000) which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.**

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a **Head of Project Controls **at HS2 you will be responsible for developing and integrating the project baseline across scope, time, cost, risk and quality for a number of development and delivery areas of the HS2 Programme. The role will develop strategic insight on performance and trends to support senior leaders across HS2 and the Supply Chain in making trade off decisions that best ensures the delivery of programme benefits.

**About the role**:

- To be accountable for ensuring adherence with Programme Management Office (PMO) and Project Controls policies, processes and standards across a number of development and delivery areas of the HS2 Programme
- To be responsible for leading and coordinating project controls activities within the supply chain, portfolio, projects or contracts to assure the accuracy and quality of cost, risk and schedule information being captured
- To be responsible for supporting, challenging and influencing senior leaders across HS2 and the Supply Chain to ensure ‘best for HS2’ decisions and be accountable for holding the supply chain, development and/or delivery areas to account, working with leaders across HS2 and the supply chain to highlight trends and performance insights
- To be responsible for providing strategic analysis of the data & reports submitted and to provide insights and trends on performance, risks to support decision making and to provide periodic project performance updates to the key senior stakeholders, with strategic insights and trends to support development and delivery trade off decisions
- To be responsible for managing the periodic correlation of schedule, cost, quality and risk to drive expedient programme delivery and manage performance
- To be responsible for owing and managing risks across a portfolio of projects, leveraging Subject Matter Expert (SME) advice and technical knowledge from specialists in responding to project delays, issues and other challenges across a number of development and delivery areas
- To be responsible for leading and co-ordinating the change management process, ensuring impacts to the baseline are effectively assessed and managed
- To be responsible for managing and co-ordinating dependencies across a number of delivery areas, ensuring baseline and delivery integration
- To be accountable for leading the co-ordination and communication of the Period reporting cycle ensuring compliance with the reporting life cycle and undertaking self
- assessment of procedural compliance and sharing lessons, best practice within the Project Controls community
- To be responsible for providing functional line management, performance management and objective setting support to direct reports
- Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI

**About You**:
**Skills**:

- Clear Direction - define and prioritise objectives, analyse inputs, assess data, define strategies and provide supporting rationales. Ability to direct the broader team on the actions needed to manage and mitigate any critical issues.
- Complex problem solving - ability to identify complex problems. Review, analyse and interpret a wide range of data and evaluate options and implement solutions. This includes the management and planning of multiple workstreams and the competing demands of stakeholders.
- Influencing & Negotiating Skills - including internal and external functions
- Effective verbal and written communication skills - communicate effectively with people at all levels within HS2 Ltd, adapting any messages as appropriate. This will include producing accurate, timely and informative reports in multiple formats targeted to the needs of the audience and; presentations to the board.
- Relationship skills - ability to build and maintain effective relationships with diverse stakeholder groups which includes the HS2 executive team, central government, local government, professional bodies, internal stakeholders and JV board stakeholders.

**Knowledge**:

- Knowledge of the core Project Controls disciplines, including; Schedule Management, Cost Management, Change Management and Risk Management
- Knowledge of baseline development and maintenance of baselines on a programme
- Knowledge of the Project and Commercial

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