Project Manager
Company
Location
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
2/4/2025
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Description
Location
Milton Keynes, GB
Department Name
Supply Chain Operations - Capital Programmes
About Network Rail
🌟 Join Our Team at Network Rail! 🌟
Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We're an organisation where people truly matter, and when you join us, you matter to us and millions of others. Click here to watch our inspiring video to learn more about us!
We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we're committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce. Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone. Discover more about the importance of Diversity and Inclusion at Network Rail by clicking here .
Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!
About our people and the recruitment process - We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us , whilst you have a healthy work life balance.
We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.
Brief Description
Route Services is a division of Network Rail that provides the Routes with services so they can help Network Rail deliver a better railway for a better Britain. We support the Routes with a myriad of services and supplies they need to maintain and operate the railway. See the diagram for a breakdown of our services. To learn more, please click here to watch our video.
This role sits within Electrical Safety Delivery (ESD), which is a network-wide change programme supporting the safe operation and maintenance of our railway, enabling a step change in workforce safety for the industry. The programme is delivering to the industry the safest possible technology, culture, tools, and processes, which will reduce workforce electrical safety risk to as low as reasonably practical and improving workforce safety and productivity. You can hear more about the programme in this short video.
If you're ready to make a difference, we want to hear from you !
About The Role (External)
We’re looking for an experienced, proactive, project manager with practical business change knowledge to join the Electrical Safety Delivery team.
As the Project Manager, you’ll provide a professional, consistent and effective project management service, enabling the team to successfully deliver projects, as well as your own individual projects. Reporting to the Programme Manager, you’ll manage the delivery of your projects to time, cost and quality in line with PACE methodology and Network Rail company standards and other relevant legislation. You’ll be used to managing projects with a diverse and disparate team, great at networking and utilising your contacts to enable successful delivery. You’ll be expected to deliver an effective service including project monitoring and reporting and support the development of supply strategies and framework contracts.
Key accountabilities include:
What you’ll bring:
Essential
Vacancy type: This role is permanent.
Location: This position is based in Milton Keynes (at least two days per week in the office).
Hours: 35 hours per week, with hybrid working and travel as required.
Salary range: £46,701 – £53,589 per annum, depending on skills and experience.
Closing date: 11 February 2025. Late applicants will not be accepted. This role is being advertised internally and externally.
You will need to please complete a supporting statement addressing how you meet the essential criteria listed above. P lease add this to your CV in one document .
Please See Attached Guide – How To Complete Supporting Statement.
Click ‘Apply now’ to submit your application. If you cannot access the guide, or if you would like to speak to the Resourcing Team, please contact [email protected]
At Network Rail you will have a clear development path, access to training and enjoy a range of employee benefits, such as; up to 28 days annual leave, rail travel subsidies, a range of pension options, flexible and agile working arrangements, discounts on shopping, gym memberships and much more. Find out more about our benefit s.
If you would like any reasonable adjustments support during your application or throughout the recruitment process , please do not hesitate to contact the Resourcing Team who will happily assist.
Below are some examples of adjustments we can make:
The recruitment process will consist of shortlisted candidates being invited to take part in the following;
For further information about how we recruit, please visit: https://www.networkrail.co.uk/careers/how-we-recruit/
Drugs and Alcohol Standard:
All prospective external candidates offered a conditional role will be required to undergo and pass a drugs and alcohol test. Your application will be rescinded if you record a positive test. All positive drugs and alcohol test results for prospective candidates will be securely held on Sentinel database and a 5 year suspension from applying for a safety critical role, a role which requires PTS certification or a Key Safety role on Network Rail Managed Infrastructure will be enforced.
More information can be found in our Drugs and Alcohol Guidance document.
Milton Keynes, GB
Department Name
Supply Chain Operations - Capital Programmes
About Network Rail
🌟 Join Our Team at Network Rail! 🌟
Are you ready to make a difference in people's lives? At Network Rail, we connect passengers and freight customers, ensuring safe and efficient transportation across the country. We're an organisation where people truly matter, and when you join us, you matter to us and millions of others. Click here to watch our inspiring video to learn more about us!
We're dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that reflects the passengers we serve. To achieve this, we're committed to becoming an open, diverse, and inclusive workplace, leveraging the skills and expertise of our talented workforce. Together, we strive to create a safe and accessible railway for everyone. Discover more about the importance of Diversity and Inclusion at Network Rail by clicking here .
Investing in our people is key to enhancing the safety, reliability, and efficiency of our railway system. If you're passionate about making a meaningful impact, then this opportunity is for you!
About our people and the recruitment process - We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone! We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us , whilst you have a healthy work life balance.
We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.
Brief Description
Route Services is a division of Network Rail that provides the Routes with services so they can help Network Rail deliver a better railway for a better Britain. We support the Routes with a myriad of services and supplies they need to maintain and operate the railway. See the diagram for a breakdown of our services. To learn more, please click here to watch our video.
This role sits within Electrical Safety Delivery (ESD), which is a network-wide change programme supporting the safe operation and maintenance of our railway, enabling a step change in workforce safety for the industry. The programme is delivering to the industry the safest possible technology, culture, tools, and processes, which will reduce workforce electrical safety risk to as low as reasonably practical and improving workforce safety and productivity. You can hear more about the programme in this short video.
If you're ready to make a difference, we want to hear from you !
About The Role (External)
We’re looking for an experienced, proactive, project manager with practical business change knowledge to join the Electrical Safety Delivery team.
As the Project Manager, you’ll provide a professional, consistent and effective project management service, enabling the team to successfully deliver projects, as well as your own individual projects. Reporting to the Programme Manager, you’ll manage the delivery of your projects to time, cost and quality in line with PACE methodology and Network Rail company standards and other relevant legislation. You’ll be used to managing projects with a diverse and disparate team, great at networking and utilising your contacts to enable successful delivery. You’ll be expected to deliver an effective service including project monitoring and reporting and support the development of supply strategies and framework contracts.
Key accountabilities include:
- Deliver the project(s) safely to time, cost and quality, in accordance with the Guide to Railway Investment Projects (GRIP), applicable Railway Group, Network Rail company standards and other specific legislation.
- Provide a professional, first class, consistent and effective project management service to the clients, including project monitoring and reporting systems in accordance with Railway Group, Network Rail company standards and guidelines.
- Participate in the development of supply strategies and framework contracts.
- Provide detailed input for compilation of the business plan and production of the possessions plan.
- Control project change, risks and contingency within the project life cycle and provide all cost, contingency and programme details to enable the Sponsor to obtain authorisation for portfolios/projects.
- Provide a safe working environment in the execution of work directly under the post holder’s responsibility, including development of project safety plans and other associated documentation.
- Identify training needs in safety, technical and management areas for the personnel reporting to the post holder and contribute to their personal development.
- Undertake accident investigations when remitted to by the relevant designated competent person.
- Comply with the Investment Competence Framework.
What you’ll bring:
Essential
- Relevant successful experience in project management.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Team leader capable of motivating the team.
- Commercial and financial understanding and knowledge.
- Accident Investigation experience.
- Membership of the Association for Project Management or other professional body.
- Six Sigma Yellow Belt.
- Degree or equivalent.
- Knowledge of investment processes and procedures.
- Knowledge and understanding of project and contract management.
Vacancy type: This role is permanent.
Location: This position is based in Milton Keynes (at least two days per week in the office).
Hours: 35 hours per week, with hybrid working and travel as required.
Salary range: £46,701 – £53,589 per annum, depending on skills and experience.
Closing date: 11 February 2025. Late applicants will not be accepted. This role is being advertised internally and externally.
You will need to please complete a supporting statement addressing how you meet the essential criteria listed above. P lease add this to your CV in one document .
Please See Attached Guide – How To Complete Supporting Statement.
Click ‘Apply now’ to submit your application. If you cannot access the guide, or if you would like to speak to the Resourcing Team, please contact [email protected]
At Network Rail you will have a clear development path, access to training and enjoy a range of employee benefits, such as; up to 28 days annual leave, rail travel subsidies, a range of pension options, flexible and agile working arrangements, discounts on shopping, gym memberships and much more. Find out more about our benefit s.
If you would like any reasonable adjustments support during your application or throughout the recruitment process , please do not hesitate to contact the Resourcing Team who will happily assist.
Below are some examples of adjustments we can make:
- Changing a provision, practice or ‘the way things are done’
- Changing a physical feature of our workplace For example, office/room layout can be adapted to accommodate individual needs.
- Providing extra equipment or assistance For example, we can provide sign language interpreters and support workers where needed. Alternative document formats can be made available.
The recruitment process will consist of shortlisted candidates being invited to take part in the following;
- Competency Based Interview
For further information about how we recruit, please visit: https://www.networkrail.co.uk/careers/how-we-recruit/
Drugs and Alcohol Standard:
All prospective external candidates offered a conditional role will be required to undergo and pass a drugs and alcohol test. Your application will be rescinded if you record a positive test. All positive drugs and alcohol test results for prospective candidates will be securely held on Sentinel database and a 5 year suspension from applying for a safety critical role, a role which requires PTS certification or a Key Safety role on Network Rail Managed Infrastructure will be enforced.
More information can be found in our Drugs and Alcohol Guidance document.
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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