Job Description

Salary: salary starting at \xc2\xa344,690 and increasing to \xc2\xa350,276 (plus Employee Healthcare)

Annual Leave: 28 days + bank holidays

Hours: 35 per week

*Employees will be entitled to a 75% discount off leisure travel from December 2022, this includes all Advance, off peak and super off peak tickets*

About Network Rail:

Network Rail has played a key role in keeping the country moving during the coronavirus pandemic - and we will play an equally important part in rebuilding from it.

We get people where they need to be, whether they are commuting to work, visiting friends or family, or going for a night out.

We make millions of lives better every day and have a vital job in driving the economy and prosperity of the nation!

Over the coming years we will be building and improving crucial rail links between the country\'s biggest cities, making our services faster, more comfortable and more reliable for the people who rely on us.

We\'re also changing our organisation to put the passenger at the heart of everything we do, to make our people even prouder to work for us and to be recognised as a true leader in our industry.

In joining Network Rail, you\'re not only joining an organisation with a vital role to play for the country, but also a team of more than 40,000 people, and a business dedicated to being one of Britain\'s best employers.

Brief Description

Portfolio Planning Specialist

Industry Partnership for Digital Railway (IPDR) is a national and cross-industry enterprise led by Eastern Region with the mission of creating the next generation railway, through the deployment of European Train Control System (ETCS) digital train control technology. This represents a migration to a safer, higher-performing, more resilient, more efficient, better skilled, more productive, and greener railway, delivering passenger benefits in the areas of safety, punctuality and resilience, and taxpayer benefits through reduction in capital and whole life costs.

IPDR is leading the (ECDP), which will see ETCS put into use across the south of the East Coast Main Line and tens of industry organisations migrated to using it. ECDP is the foundation for the network digital strategy and over two-thirds of its investment will enable and support the deployment of ETCS on other parts of the network.

Within IPDR we are establishing the Digital Signalling portfolio to oversee the wider rollout of ETCS across Great Britain and make it easier for Regions and schemes to deploy ETCS. Through the portfolio we will co-ordinate and deliver fleet fitment activities, work to develop robust, repeatable approaches to technical delivery and business change, increase supply chain capability and capacity, and deliver initiatives to build the industry\'s capability to efficiently plan, design, deliver, operate and maintain an ETCS railway.

About the role (External)

We are recruiting for a Portfolio Planning Specialist for Industry Partnership for Digital Railway to work on the Digital Signalling portfolio.

You will be responsible for developing and maintaining the integrated portfolio delivery plan, drawing schedule information from a wide range of industry stakeholders and their plans and integrating them, mapping dependencies, highlighting slippage, conflicts and errors and discussing these with stakeholders to understand them and agree a way forward. You will set out Key Performance Indicators linked to portfolio objectives and monitor delivery progress against them. You will compile and present schedule-based and narrative portfolio reporting information in a way that supports effective decision-making through the relevant portfolio governance forums.

You will specify appropriate planning and reporting requirements for the portfolio, providing guidance and direction to other planners as needed, monitoring the quality and consistency of all scheduling and associated reporting information, and undertaking assurance reviews as required.

Key Accountabilities:

1. Develop and maintain planning guidance to support the partners successful delivery within the Network Rail environment

2. Be accountable for maintaining a set of templates to support the supply chain in the creation of their development programmes

3. Design, develop and maintain the Industry Partnership Digital database(s) to allow strategic planning information to be stored and managed by Network Rail and its supply chain.

4. Establish and maintain the L2 assurance of delivery partners programmes, schedules, and planner capability as appropriate to the project work category and PACE lifecycle.

5. Establish and maintain planning guidance and advice to route teams in support of delivery outcomes

6. Review and monitor volumes reporting as required in support of delivery outcomes.

7. Operate as an escalation route for planning and systems issues supporting any resolutions and drive continuous improvements across programmes and projects.

8. Develop and maintain Level 1 Master Schedule review and Level 2 Summary Schedule that incorporate all the work planned, with appropriate milestones to track the overall programme and. produce reporting as required to support governance and assurance.

9. Be accountable for the connectivity to the wider business infrastructure to ensure systems are maintained, updated and fit for purpose

Essential

\xc2\xb7 Membership of a relevant professional body and/or educated to degree level

\xc2\xb7 A comprehensive knowledge of programme and project controls processes and systems

\xc2\xb7 Technical primavera experience

\xc2\xb7 Ability to use basic and advance IT systems

\xc2\xb7 Demonstrable skills in initiating and building positive working relationships with customers, their team and stakeholders.

\xc2\xb7 Demonstrable experience of creating opportunities for development for themselves and others/their team,

\xc2\xb7 Demonstrable experience of supporting the physical and mental well-being and safety of themselves and colleagues and of challenging business and safety related risks.

\xc2\xb7 Demonstrable ability to work proactively through complex issues.

\xc2\xb7 Demonstrable experience of thinking through the cost, business priorities and customer implications of their decisions.

Desirable

\xc2\xb7 Experience of planning within the railway environment

\xc2\xb7 Good presentation skills;

\xc2\xb7 Good communication skills both verbal and written.

How to apply (External)

Network Rail welcomes applications regardless of age, disability, marital status (including civil partnerships), pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation, transgender status, sex (or gender), employment status, trade union affiliation, or other irrelevant factor.

We are a employer! We will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.

We positively embrace flexible working, recognising that employees may wish to balance work with their family and home life.

Network Rail Benefits -

Network Rail is required to comply with UK Government standards when carrying out pre-employment checks for all new starters; this includes a basic criminal record check. In addition to the basic criminal record check, in accordance with the UK Government we are also required to verify your identity, right to work in the UK and previous three years employment history.

Keeping people safe on the railway is at the heart of everything we do, safe behaviour is therefore a requirement of working for Network Rail. You should be able to demonstrate your to safety and awareness of our .

Network Rail can offer you a rewarding career with competitive pay and excellent including a choice of contributory pension schemes, a generous annual leave package, a bonus scheme and an annual 75% subsidy on season tickets costing up to \xc2\xa33,333 (to a maximum amount of \xc2\xa32,500). You will also be entitled to 28 days annual leave

Salary: starting at \xc2\xa344,690 and increasing to \xc2\xa350,276.

*Employees will be entitled to a 75% discount off leisure travel from December 2022, this includes all Advance, off peak and super off peak tickets*

Drugs & Alcohol test: All prospective 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.

Closing date 29th August 2023. Late applications will not be accepted. We retain the right to close the advert before the listed closing date based on application volumes.

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