Lead System Assurance Manager - HS

High Speed Two Ltd | System Assurance | Level 2 (Programme) & Level 3 (Enterprise)

Salary: £90 – 100,000 + 12 % Pen + health + 25 days

Progression Head of System Assurance c £120 + pkg

Scope:
Programme and Portfolio / Enterprise Level System Assurance

Programme:
High Speed Two, Longterm programme until (Apply online only)

Lead System Assurance Across the HS2 Programme

Are you an experienced engineering, assurance or programme professional who understands how complex systems are assured across their full lifecycle?

Do you have experience working at programme or enterprise level, looking across multiple projects, contracts and engineering disciplines to provide confidence that systems will integrate and deliver the required operational outcome?

High Speed Two Ltd is looking for a Lead Technical Assurance Manager to play a key role in assuring the future high speed railway.

This is a senior programme level position within HS2, responsible for the correct and consistent application of System Assurance processes and the collation of evidence across multiple work streams and groups of contracts.

You will not be carrying out detailed assurance on individual projects or contracts. That work is undertaken within the delivery organisations and feeds upwards to you. Your role is to take that information, understand what it says about the wider system and provide confidence at programme and portfolio / enterprise level.

HS2 is being delivered through multiple major civils, stations and rail systems contracts, all of which ultimately need to integrate into one functioning railway.

Your role will be to look across those interfaces and ensure the programme is progressively building the evidence needed to demonstrate that systems, integration activities and operational functionality are being properly assured.

HS2 operates as the Primary System Integrator, alongside appointed lead integrators, making this a particularly important role in understanding how assurance from individual projects and contracts combines into overall system confidence.

You will work with senior engineering, systems, commissioning, handover, programme and delivery professionals to identify gaps, challenge assumptions and ensure the right assurance evidence is available at the right point in the lifecycle.

• Lead System Assurance activities at programme and portfolio / enterprise level.
• Ensure assurance processes are consistently applied across multiple work streams and groups of contracts.
• Review and interpret assurance information and evidence generated by projects and delivery organisations.
• Provide programme level confidence that systems, interfaces and integration activities are being progressively assured.
• Ensure evidence provides a clear line of sight from requirements through design, verification, validation, integration, testing and operational readiness.
• Identify assurance gaps, systemic risks and areas requiring further evidence or verification.
• Work with engineering, systems, commissioning, handover and programme teams to resolve assurance issues.
• Support assurance of system integration activities undertaken by HS2 and appointed lead integrators.
• Develop and improve programme level assurance processes, governance and reporting.
• Analyse assurance information to identify trends, risks and areas of concern across the programme.
• Provide senior assurance advice to engineering and programme leadership.

We are open to people from a range of senior engineering, delivery and programme backgrounds.

You might have developed your experience through engineering management, systems engineering, senior commissioning and handover, programme management…