Project Leader (Change)

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Brief Description

About the team..

The Access Planning Programme (APP) has partnered with industry experts to design, build and nationally implement an Access Planning System (APS) enabling essential safety improvements to Engineering Access Planning.

The outcomes sought by the programme are:

Safety

• Reducing risk and improving performance by developing a successor to the Possession Planning System (PPS) and manual EAS (Engineering Access Statement) with APS a safe, more co-ordinated system

Improved efficiency of the access planning process

• Advancing functionality and integration compared to PPS

Improved quality of the access plan

• Structuring data so inconsistencies can be challenged and corrected

About the role (External)

What does the average day look like?

• Work as part of a project team, assisting with delivering business change project on system upgrades to time, cost and quality through various project life cycle phases in a safe and environmentally responsible manner;

• Engage with both internal and external stakeholders collecting information to provide periodic progress reports.

• Deliver stakeholder engagement work, through drafting presentations, supporting with stakeholder mapping, communications plans and co-ordinating meetings;

• You'll provide quality project administration support through maintaining risk registers, document tracking, file management, version control and supporting the development of project reports and presentations

• You'll manage generic and task specific methods of working and supply risk assessments to agreed timescales

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

What essential skills and experiences are required?

• Experience of working in change projects

• Understanding of applying project methodologies

For a full list of the key accountabilities and essential/ desirable criteria, please click apply now and you will be redirected to the Network Rail Careers website where you will be able to find this role where the job description will be attached.]]>