Lead Technical Assurance Manager

Role:
Lead Technical Assurance Manager Grade: G19

Location:

London or Birmingham (Hybrid) Closing Date: 8th October Salary Base salary £61622 pa to c.£77028 depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% 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 Lead Technical Assurance Manager at HS2 you will have a key role in the correct and consistent application of technical assurance processes and collations of evidence across multiple work streams and groups of contracts, resulting in acceptable self-assurance of the works by the delivery organisations, and successful assurance of integration activities and system functionality undertaken by HS2 as Primary System Integrator and appointed lead integrators, resulting in the delivering of the operational high-speed railway.

About the role:

* Facilitate a consistent application of technical assurance processes by the supply chain, HS2 project teams, and system integration design, test & commissioning management teams, across multiple contracts, work streams and delivery phases.
* Facilitate adequate Supply Chain planning and progressive self-assurance of their own works, undertaking review and acceptance of technical assurance completion evidence submissions made at stage completion milestones.
* Likewise facilitate progressive self-assurance of activities undertaken by HS2 project teams and discipline subject matter experts (SMEs) in relation to their own deliverables, as well as planned reviews and acceptance of technical assurance stage completion submissions made by the Supply Chain Contractors.
* Assist the Head of Technical Assurance with the development of the department's own business as usual and process improvements workstream planning.
* Maintain reporting metric against key performance indicators and provide regular progress reports on contracts and aspects of system integration responsible for receiving acceptance of technical assurance.
* Co-ordinate and manage the Senior Technical Assurance Manager(s) and Technical Assurance Managers under their line management in undertaking additional department tasks instructed by the Head of Technical Assurance, such as supporting continuous improvement through the further development, improvement, or communication throughout the business of technical assurance process, procedures, and guidelines in use
* Monitor and review ongoing levels of resource capability and competency within the supply chain and HS2, identifying areas requiring attention to de-risk the delivery of the works and associated technical assurance products
* Oversee the HS2 application of mandatory and additional verification activities undertaken by HS2 and their delivery partners of the contracted works ensuring that it is commensurate with a justifiable risk-based approach to ensure a fully assured product is received by HS2.
* Liaise with other HS2 functions, such as safety, risk, requirements, configuration management, documentation control, information management (BIM) and inter-related engineering discipline SMEs to ensure sharing of information, the acceptance of technical assurances and the resolution of issues.
* Support the HS2 Head of Engineering and/or Environment or other Technical Lead appointed in reviewing and…