Project Management Assistant

2 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Network Rail Full time

Project Management Assistant

**Location**:
Manchester, GB

**Department Name**:
BH Project Manager S&C, Indirect (850060) G2

**About Network Rail**:
We're proud to be recognised by Glassdoor as one of the Top 50 Best Places to Work in 2021. To find out more about our people, visit - Our People.

Network Rail operates and maintains the railway infrastructure 24/7 365 days a year.

Our ambition to be responsive to passengers and freight users drives us every day and we’re empowered to do the right thing for those who use the rail network. We actively challenge unsafe practices and take responsibility for addressing risks, resolving issues and protecting safety and wellbeing.

We’re passionate about great service and we ask ourselves, what can we do to put our passengers and freight users at the centre of everything we do? With this in mind, we pull together as one industry because we care about people and teamwork is key.

This is an exciting time to join Network Rail. We’re passionate about great service and commit to our service equation vision by “putting passengers first”. Performance, safety and getting the fundamental basics right, is something we strive for as well as asking ourselves - what can we do to put our passengers and freight users at the centre of everything we do?

You will be part of the NW&C Region which consist of three routes:

- North West
- Central
- West Coast South - and a regional team supporting Regional Major Programmes & Professional services.

To find out more about NW&C/us, visit - Who We Are.

For us, ‘Diversity' means recognising differences between people while valuing the contribution they make. ‘Inclusion’ means creating safe and welcoming workplaces with fair cultures that encourage innovative and fresh ways of thinking.

**Brief Description**:
To support the project management team in the everyday management of projects for which they are responsible, in accordance with the Guide to Railway Investment Projects (GRIP),and Railway Group, including PACE and Network Rail’s company standards, and all currently applicable legislation including CDM Regulations.

**About the role (External)**:
**What will you be doing?**
- Work as part of a project team, assisting to deliver projects to time, cost and quality through various phases in a safe and environmentally responsible manner.
- Monitor and report programme and progress by project reporting systems and guidelines.
- Production of Pre Construction Health and safety Packs along with Environmental Workbooks
- Develop and integrate, effective support systems to enable the Project Manager to manage and control change.
- Attend relevant stakeholder meetings periodically
- Monitor contractor performance indicators and provide periodic progress reports including Track Bed Investigations.
- Support the Project Management team in providing a safe working environment at all times during the execution of those projects under their responsibility.
- Manage generic and site-specific methods of working and supply risk assessments to agreed timescales.
- Monitor so that HSQE risk assessments have been carried out by the contractor, and monitor compliance.
- Comply with the Investment Competence Framework.

**Essential Criteria**

**To be successful in this role, we would like you to have/to be**:

- Some management experience including project management.
- Educated to HND/HNC or similar standard.
- HSQE awareness, issues and principles.

**Desirable Criteria**

**We would also like but it isn’t crucial to have/to be**:

- Membership (or working towards membership of) the Association for Project Management.
- A degree or equivalent.
- Knowledge of safety, quality, environmental, commercial and financial aspects.
- Understanding of possession planning.

A career with Network Rail is a journey and we will do everything we can to make it a great one.

Network Rail positively embraces flexible working recognising that employees may wish to balance work and family/home life.

We adhere to a structured pay framework, **any salary offered will be within the following pay range**:Band 5 Starting salary of £26,000 raising to £29,000.


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