Graduate - Railway Operations Asset Management

HS2 is Britain’s new high-speed railway connecting London and Birmingham. It is the first new intercity railway to be built north of London in more than a century.

At HS2 we offer a variety of two-year rotational graduate programmes across various disciplines, providing graduates with opportunities to learn, grow and develop in their area of expertise.

We currently have an opportunity for a Railway Operations Asset Management graduate available, supporting the Commercial Operations and Customer team, within the Operations & Maintenance department. The role will be based at our Snowhill Office in Birmingham, with opportunities available to undertake placements at other HS2 offices/sites, therefore travel will be required.

The Operations & Maintenance department will be the future operator of the railway. This means that we lead the programme of work to create the capabilities and processes to run the railway and gain the license to operate the infrastructure, while supporting the HS2 Programme, project managers and engineers to ensure the requirements within the operational concepts are realised.

Dependant on business requirements, your rotations may include placements with the following teams within the Operations & Maintenance team:
**Infrastructure Manager Operations.**Responsible for developing the arrangements to safely operate the railway in a truly integrated way. Including: defining how we will operate the railway utilising train command, control and traffic management systems in the Network Integrated Control Centre (NICC), influencing the design of stations, developing training and processes for staff to demonstrate competence, ensuring the delivery of the rolling stock and depots meets operational needs, developing and planning the operational timetable, development of operational rules, standards and procedures, and planning exercises to ensure the railway is ready to operate.

**Infrastructure Maintenance and Asset Management.**Responsible for developing arrangements to safely maintain assets on the railway and in stations, ensuring the railway can be maintained to provide optimum levels of availability and reliability. This includes managing contracts, development of engineering standards, procurement of on track machines and managing the information being delivered from building the assets, setting up systems to manage this information and establishing data analytics to understand the data and bring it to life.

**Commercial Operations & Customer.**Responsible for building the commercial structure for the operation of the railway, including the commercial arrangements with the future train operator, train maintainer, other infrastructure managers and future adverting and retail opportunities.

**Operations Strategy & Programme Management.**This team lead on the development of the Operations & Maintenance strategy by setting objectives and scope, making decisions on optimal solutions for future railway operations and managing stakeholders to secure a strategy that delivers the benefits and long-term value of HS2.

**Skills**:
Ability to build effective and collaborative working relationships within multidisciplinary teams and with a variety of stakeholders

Ability to compile, assess and analyse information, data and reports

Planning and organisational skills, with the ability to prioritise and deliver day to day tasks to agreed deadlines and agreed standards

Ability to communicate effectively using a range of mediums, including presentations

Ability to evaluate complex issues and problem solve

**Knowledge**:
On track to achieve or already hold a minimum of a 2:2 bachelor’s degree (or non-UK equivalent) in Business Management, Project Management, Asset Management, Railway Operations, Economics or Transport Planning

Knowledge of IT software such as MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint (or equivalent)

**Does HS2 offer sponsorship if I do not have the Right to Work in the UK?**

**Our graduate programme salaries**:
Salaries are currently pending pay review however please see below figures based on 2024;

Outside of London

Basic £23,750.50 + 15% Flexible allowance