Project Management Assistant

To support the project management team in the everyday management of projects and emergency projects for which they are responsible, in accordance with the PACE procedure (Project Acceleration in a Controlled Environment), Railway Group Standards, Network Rail's Company Standards, and all current applicable legislation including CDM Regulations.

This is a secondment opportunity for 6 months

• Please note, that secondments are subject to agreement from your line manager; please discuss this opportunity with them before applying to avoid disappointment


About the role (External)

What will you be doing?

1. 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.

2. Monitor and report programme and progress in accordance with project reporting systems and guidelines.

3. Develop and integrate, effective support systems to enable the Project Manager to manage and control change.

4. Process contractor possession and isolation applications so that they applications are complete and submitted to the prescribed time scales as directed.

5. Monitor contractor performance indicators and provide periodic progress reports.

6. Support the Project Management team in providing a safe working environment at all times during the execution of those projects under their responsibility.

7. Manage generic and site-specific methods of working and supply risk assessments to agreed timescales.

8. Monitor so that HSQE risk assessments have been carried out by the contractor, and monitor compliance.

9. Comply with the Investment Competence Framework.

· Some management experience including project management.

· Educated to HND/HNC or similar standard.

· HSQE awareness, issues and principles.

It's not mandatory to have the below, but it would be desirable to have

· 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.

We were proud to be recognised by Glassdoor as one of the Top 50 Best Places to Work in 2021. Network Rail operates and maintains the railway infrastructure 24/7 365 days a year. 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? We're an organisation where people matter. When you're part of our team, you matter to us and you matter to millions. Watch our video to find out more!

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 encourages innovative and fresh ways of thinking. We're continuing to build a more diverse and inclusive organisation which is representative of the passengers we serve. We wish to continue harnessing the skills and expertise of all our people and attracting the best talent to help us have a safe, accessible railway for everyone. We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone!

Central Route:

Within this role, you will be part of the North West & Central Region, working for the Central Route.

Central Route is at the heart of Britain's railway, and it helps to carry hundreds of thousands of passengers and deliver hundreds of thousands of tonnes of freight each week. Within our Route, we have: the Chiltern Mainline which runs between London Marylebone and the West Midlands; the Snow Hill line which runs from Stratford-upon-Avon to Worcester; the Cross City line in Birmingham; and lines which run to Wolverhampton, Coventry, Walsall and Oxford. Our Route is also home to Birmingham New Street, the busiest station outside of London, and the hub of the national rail network which helps connect the South-West with Scotland and the North-West with East Anglia.

We have big plans for Central Route over the coming years. Our Route is proud to be delivering complex multimillion-pound projects to help improve our passengers' journeys and freight movements by making our railway safer, more reliable and more resilient. However, all of this would be impossible without our people. Our culture of listening, caring, and acting creates a positive and successful environment, perfect for getting the job done, safely.

Civils:

The Civils team in Central Route are the largest Works Delivery department in Network Rail. We design, construct, and maintain the civil engineering assets across the entire region. Such includes 5000 bridges, 300 tunnels and hundreds of miles of soil, rock cuttings and embankments. Through the four main departments of: Civils Internal Delivery, Civils Internal Design, Civils Asset Management, and Civils Project Management, we deliver over £100m of investment a year and support over 500 jobs in our immediate supply chain.

This is an exciting and dynamic department, which promotes innovation, collaboration and expertise. Employees of the Civils department work at the heart of Network Rail's technical community, developing engineering capability, improving asset management processes, and promoting the embedment of new technology throughout the Region.

Salary starting from £28,000 per annum.

Network Rail adheres to a structured pay framework, any salary offered will be within the pay range advertised.

• 28 days holiday entitlement (plus bank holidays)


• My benefits – our discounted online shopping site


• A range of discounted offers including, childcare vouchers, healthcare offers – cycle to work, healthcare club discounted membership and other benefits


• Subsidies of up to 75% on rail and underground season tickets


• 75% discount on leisure travel


• A choice of contributory pension schemes


• 2 weeks paid reserve leave for our Armed Forces community


• 5 days volunteer leave


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