Experienced Planning and Risk professional

Role Key Details

• Rate £600/day Inside IR35
• Contract Duration: 15 months
• Location: London King's Cross or York (3 days per week)
• IR35 Status: Inside IR35
• Anticipated Start Date: ASAP, by 1 Jan 2026.

Programme Context·High profile programme that has been formed as an industry led programme of works to undertake signalling interventions between Kings Cross and Stoke Tunnel to upgrade interlockings and install ETCS (European Train Control System) level 2 without signals.·This work brings a significant amount of change to the organisation as a delivery partner within the programme, affecting systems, Data, Maintenance & Operations to name a few.·This change needs to be understood, managed, processed, altered, trained and delivered to all affected organisation's functions in a timely manner to support the deployment of the system.Role Overview Programme Risk and Schedule Professional - an individual with experience of planning and delivery of ETCS projects initially for 2 years working 5 days per week within the Project Controls team, this role will support the Business Readiness Sector to correlate project time, cost and risk assessment, and will own/manage the Risk and Schedule activities including but not limited to:·To engage and become a key member of the programme delivery team providing an integrated scheduling and risk approach to support the effective delivery of the programme.· Collaboration with key stakeholders to develop and manage a project work breakdown structure and Integrated programme schedule to meet and deliver the overall programme objectives and provide effective project performance measurement, narrative and reporting in line with internal and external reporting timelines.· Monitor delivery against programme milestones, reporting and escalating issues, and identify programme conflicts and interface opportunities whilst also understanding, managing and communicating to complex stakeholder groups.·Collaboration and engagement with internal/external stakeholders and delivery partners to manage and support effective information sharing and awareness of any schedule or risk changes and impacts, ensuring that the organisation's Business Readiness team/East Coast Route are made progressively aware of any/all changes and impacts associated with each ECDP commissioning/configuration milestones.· Facilitation of risk meetings/workshops ensuring attendees have a general understanding of the process, the assessment criteria and the subsequent actions/responsibilities.· Facilitate and guide programme Managers and workstream leads through the risk management process, providing expert advice to improve Risk Management capability and documentation of programme/project risks, issues and opportunities.·Provide specialist advice to managers to enable the prioritisation and an independent, coherent and consistent evaluation of risk across the business.· Align and maintain the workstream risk data with the strategic risks, working with key stakeholders to appropriately link risks.· Attendance at the regular internal/external meetings to understand/share progress, issues, risks and plans.· Perform other related duties as required or assigned to support the programme objectives.Key Skills and Experience

• Excellent Planning skills

• Oracle P6 Primavera system experience
• Excel

• PowerBI Ideally

• Excellent Risk management skills

If interested please apply asap - deadline is close of business Monday 17th November to apply.