Operations Manager Land Assembly

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Job Description

Location - Birmingham

Base salary: £46,406pa to c.£54,595pa 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 an Operations Manager at HS2 within Land and Property, you will bring a high level of technical Land Referencing experience to help improve consistency, efficiency and effectiveness of the Land Assembly team with a focus on the stakeholder experience.

About the Role:

• 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.
• Lead on the implementation, refinement and improvement of the systems necessary to acquire and/or possess the land required for the railway
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships across Department for Transport, Land and Property, Property policy teams, and the Independent Land Advisor
• Provide specialist advice to the Land Assembly Managers to ensure land is delivered in the right way, to the right quality following approved processes and governance
• Drive improvements in the quality of supplier data and plan submissions to ensure delivery on a "right first time" basis; increase the efficiency and cost effectiveness of supplier operations through identification of areas of process improvement and performance management
• Maintain a robust regime of assurance to ensure compliance is maintained
• Work with the Land Assembly and Referencing Team to develop and refine the processes, policies and Health and Safety procedures for the timely acquisition of land and in a manner that is sympathetic to those affected
• Support the development and implementation of a Learning and Development programme for the Land Assembly and Referencing team to ensure continual improvement in capability and compliance with professional Continues Professional Development (CPD) requirements
• Improve the collaboration with Suppliers to ensure suppliers' behaviours and activities are coordinated and outputs are delivered within agreed quality, cost and time targets, challenging where required
• Lead on short term business priority projects to further the team's suite of policies and processes

About You:

Skills

• Programme management skills, to ensure deliverables are provided within time, cost and quality criteria
• Stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Communication skills in relation to teams to ensure smooth flow of information, as well as report-writing and presenting skills
• Attention to detail in ensuring high quality in your own and when reviewing other's outputs
• Ability to use project and time management techniques
• Data compilation and analysis skills
• Ability to access, analyse and maintain information from multiple IT databases and systems.

Knowledge

• Project management theory, qualifications or project planning tools
• Understanding of acquisition and land assembly processes
• Working knowledge of government procedures and processes
• Knowledge of land referencing and assembly including requirements for Hybrid Bills and Transport & Works Act Orders.

Experience

• Experience of compulsory purchase powers including relevant statutes and established practices
• Experience of managing own projects and workload independently including experience of compiling and analysing data using Excel (or equivalent), GIS and database reporting tools
• Experience of working with teams to develop effective working relationships and manage performance to ensure delivery
• Experience of managing a process within a technical discipline.
• Reporting to and engaging day to day with senior stakeholders; providing them with consistent, high quality information targeted for senior managers.
• Delivery experience in a similar environment (e.g. within judicial style process).
• Dealing with public facing complaints, policy development or stakeholder issues

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.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

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.

In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process - YouTube.

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

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.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.