Assistant Project Manager -Health and Safety

As an Assistant Project Manager at Hs2 you will support the Business Manager in the delivery of the HSSE programme and ensuring the effective management of the directorate.

About the role:

• Day to day contact with members of the HSSE directorate, key reporting facilitators across HS2, and with key points of contact in HR, Procurement and Finance.
• Collecting, consolidating, verifying and analysing reporting data to produce informative, high quality reports for various internal governance and decision-making forums, such as for HSE Panel and HSE Committee.
• Collecting and consolidating reports from across HSSE to support monthly HSSE management meetings.
• Assisting in the preparation of ad hoc reports as required.
• Supporting the management and tracking delivery of the HSSE programme.
• Supporting finance processes in the directorate, such as raising purchase orders and monitoring spend against budget.
• Coordinate HSSE events, such as away days, networking (i.e. Health and Wellbeing Champions network) and pilot training events that are part of the safety leadership programme.
• Support project management of key corporate and directorate projects, such as the Health and Safety Passport and GDPR compliance programme.

About You:

• Planning - To plan and manage his/her own workload to contribute to the delivery of timely high quality reports.
• Communication and stakeholder management skills - Strong written and verbal communication skills to liaise with personnel at various levels and its key partners, to gather and query the business information provided, to contribute to the narrative sections of reports and to convey the information in an easily digestible manner.
• Knowledge of programme and project management techniques
• Proven ability to work with large Excel spreadsheets, MS Word and PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of using SAP, Oracle or another ERP system
• Desirable skills, a project management qualification e.g. APMP or equivalent, an understanding of earned value analysis and reporting, Risk management, Benefits management.

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.

About Us:

High Speed 2 (HS2) 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 is a safety critical organisation with safety being one of our core values. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to the HS2 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.