Location: Birmingham or London
Salary: Base salary: £44,000 to c.£54,000 depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% 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 Configuration Manager you’ll manage and coordinate change to technical requirements and technical baselines across HS2 construction contracts. To progressively verify and validate the evidence submitted by the respective contracts and their IPTs that sets out how those changes have been implemented and configured within the contracts.
About the role:
- To ensure consistent application of configuration and change control processes across the delivery contracts.
- To manage and coordinate the process of change to technical requirements and technical baselines across the delivery contracts.
- To ensure the relevant approved technical change and configuration management processes are instructed to the supply chain by HS2
- To communicate updates to the technical change and configuration management processes across the HS2 Delivery Directorate and Supply chain;
- To own and present data-based reporting on IPT adherence to the technical change and configuration management processes; through the provision of analysis and control metrics in the field of configuration management and satisfaction such that the progress of the contracts and IPTs can be monitored, corrected and understood.
- Facilitate user feedback on HS2 procedures to the relevant technical group/author thus supporting continuous improvement of HS2 Configuration Management ways of working.
- Work collaboratively and achieve agreements with stakeholders and third parties in managing the configuration of technical requirements, success criteria and the level of evidence.
- To mentor and coach engineers and environmentalists working to provide evidence and satisfaction arguments in the importance and ultimate purpose of configuration management.
- Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
About You:
- Experience of liaising with contractors and designers.
- Experience of multi-discipline programmes
- Experience of providing specialist advice to support others
- Knowledge of configuration management practices, techniques, standards, principles, theories, and concepts.
- Ability to work with subject matter experts.
- Experience of providing specialist advice to support others
The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect
It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. Please attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application and include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.