Senior Asset Manager

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Job Description

Location: London

Salary Base salary: £43750pa to c.£54650pa depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer a flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top of the base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits.

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

The HS2 Green Corridor will run alongside the railway, creating a network of bigger, better-connected, climate-resilient habitats, and new green spaces for people to enjoy. HS2 has already started planting new woodlands, creating new ponds, grasslands, and meadows, with many new habitats flourishing before a single train has started running. The Green asset portfolio will ultimately evolve into the management of over 3500 hectares of grassland and woodland sites, with over 7 million trees, promoting ecology and biodiversity across the route.

You could be joining us as the Senior Asset Manager (Lineside & Off Track), working within the team that will operate and maintain the HS2 railway, and be responsible for the management of some of the largest newly created habitats in the UK.

Lineside and Off Track SAM Role

As a Senior Asset Manager at HS2, you will have the opportunity to actively contribute to the creation of an industry-leading asset management strategy for the Green Corridor and associated assets. Working within HS2's Operations & Maintenance Directorate, you will support the development of HS2's asset management capabilities to manage green assets during the construction phase through to the operational state when HS2 becomes a licensed Infrastructure Manager. Following the Green Assets handover, you will undertake asset steward duties for landscaping, ecology, lineside, and off-track assets owned and maintained by HS2.

Reporting to The Route Asset Manager for Lineside and Off Track, the Senior Asset Manager will be responsible for on-site surveillance of suppliers to ensure compliance with technical standards, environmental minimum requirements, and statutory compliance of ecology licenses for landscaping and ecological mitigation sites when handed over to the HS2 End State Manager.

In the role, you will work across various asset and business management areas, including risk management, technical review and acceptance of landscape design proposals, supporting the mobilization of newly appointed supplier contracts, supporting the handover and acceptance of assets, and development and implementation of asset management technical standards among other duties.

As a Lineside & Off Track Senior Asset Manager, you will also act as the subject matter expert for both ecology and landscape maintenance requirements and interventions, supporting the monitoring and management of works being undertaken by the HS2 landscaping and ecology contractors on site.

As a Senior Asset Manager at HS2, you will be responsible for coordinating and delivering the operational and technical requirements for HS2 Ltd (Infrastructure Management), to deliver infrastructure maintenance to assets along the HS2 route.

About the role:

• Responsible for asset stewardship of the HS2 assets that are handed over to the Infrastructure Manager, including the implementation of the Asset Management (Maintenance, Management, and Monitoring) requirements for the asset portfolio, in accordance with company objectives, policies, standards, plans, and specifications.
• Determine the scope of the interim and end-state organization and the maintenance requirements by identifying any constraints from the final design through design and hazard reviews, this includes attendance at project design reviews representing the Infrastructure Manager as the subject matter expert for the maintenance of assets.
• Support procurement and tender activities as the Infrastructure Manager representative for all required prospective contracts.
• Support the Infrastructure Manager team mobilization, operational and capital expenditure budgets. This includes forward planning, reporting, and management of monthly and annual budgets as well as long-term investment business cases.
• In collaboration with the HS2 Ltd Procurement teams, support the development of any market engagement activities on behalf of the Infrastructure Management team and Route Asset Manager.
• Instruct the delivery of the work (including that delivered by Supply Contracts) on behalf of the Infrastructure Manager, including monitoring compliance with standards, specifications, and plans, reviewing and validating work outputs, and taking necessary action where appropriate.
• Support the handover process to HS2 to enable future development of the HS2 Ltd Management Plans.
• Contribute to and act as the Infrastructure Manager ambassador for the development of innovation and associated business cases/justification, including opportunities for research & development and adoption of new technologies, processes, and procedures.
• Provide the relevant operational and technical input in HS2 Ltd obtaining the necessary Railway Undertaking licenses.
• Conduct nominated deputy duties for the Route Asset Manager.
• Develop and improve relationships with key stakeholders and suppliers.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organizational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

About You:

Skills:

• Ability to demonstrate safety leadership, particularly evaluation of operational risk arising from designs but also implementation of appropriate measures for operations.
• Ability to interpret and work in compliance with relevant standards, codes of practice, and plans, and take necessary action if these are compromised.
• Ability to specify and review proposals for assets and systems.
• Ability to write and review standards, specifications, and work instructions.
• Ability to review design proposals, O&M Manuals, and other operational documentation from a maintenance engineering and asset management perspective.

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of resource and work organization/planning processes and systems.
• Knowledge and experience of maintenance, monitoring, management, and asset condition assessment techniques for assets and systems.
• Knowledge and understanding of relevant and appropriate legislation.
• Knowledge of the operation and maintenance of railway assets.

Type of experience:

• Experience in leading or working within asset management and maintenance teams.
• Experience of Supply Chain contract management.
• Experience in developing and/or reviewing specifications, strategies, plans, scope documents, reports, and engineering drawings in construction programmes across multi-discipline areas.
• Experience in liaising with relevant statutory bodies and technical authorities, demonstrating that minimum requirements from technical standards, planning commitments, and statutory consents are reviewed, monitored, and discharged.
• Experience in identifying, proposing, and implementing successful improvements, including continuous improvement methodologies, innovation, and enhancement projects.

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 organizational 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 anonymized 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.

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 organization. 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.