East West Railway Company

Project Manager

• Develop and manage detailed project plans, schedules, and budgets for significant work packages.
• Key point of contact within the geographical area, both with internal EWR stakeholders and external stakeholders, acting as a conduit between the area and the programme to ensure information is actively shared to enable action.
• To focus on the development of single option design, including extensive engagement with external stakeholders as East West Rail work towards the preparation of the Development Consent Order.
• Matrix management of a multi-disciplinary team across design and engineering.
• Act as the single point of contact for project delivery for the respective area.
• Work closely with other team members to ensure that there is a collective awareness of activities being undertaken across all geographical areas.
• Balancing the need for tailored area solutions whilst serving the programme.
• Recognition of the EWR project as a whole so it can achieve its objectives.
• Sequencing of activities across areas to ensure economies of scale.
• Providing consistent messaging and approach across areas.
• Ensuring interfaces across the programme are appropriately identified and managed.
• Coordinate and collaborate with engineers, suppliers, and regulatory bodies to ensure project alignment and compliance.
• Monitor project progress, identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies to address potential issues.
• Oversee quality control and safety management processes to ensure adherence to industry standards and regulations.
• Prepare and present progress reports, updates, and project documentation to senior management and stakeholders.
• Manage project resources, including personnel, equipment, and materials, to optimise efficiency and productivity.

Senior Project Manager

• Assist in the development and management of detailed project plans, schedules, and budgets.
• Support the coordination and collaboration with engineers, suppliers, and regulatory bodies to ensure project alignment and compliance.
• Monitor project progress, identify risks, and assist in implementing mitigation strategies to address potential issues.
• Help oversee quality control and safety management processes to ensure adherence to industry standards and regulations.
• Prepare and assist in presenting progress reports, updates, and project documentation to senior management and stakeholders.
• Ensure effective communication and coordination between all project team members and external stakeholders, including the Technical Partner and Ground Investigation Partner.
• Take responsibility of your own and others’ health and safety by adopting and working to the EWR Co Health and Safety principles.
• Demonstrates a cost-conscious mindset, keeping tax payers’ money at the forefront of decisions.
• Shows a commitment to innovation by proactively seeking creative solutions to challenges and opportunities.
• Act as a role model for EWR Co’s vision and behaviours, working in ways that are aligned with EWR Co’s Ways of Working, as well as encouraging and supporting others to do so too.

Assistant Project Manager

Director

• - Define and deliver an enterprise wide digital, data and technology strategy aligned to EWR Co’s mission and future operational needs.
• - Lead the development and implementation of a digital, data and technology operating model in conjunction with multiple partner organisations operating across multiple digital and cyber environments.
• - Act as strategic owner of EWR Co’s digital ecosystem, ensuring coherence and interoperability across platforms, architecture, governance and standards.
• - Shape EWR Co’s organisational strategy by being a thought leader and championing the best use of moder, scalable digital and data practices and building a user-focused and ‘digital first’ culture.
• - Be a trusted adviser to the Board, Executive and Senior Leaders in the business.
• - Lead and own digital delivery across the organisation, ensuring digital services and ways of working support both infrastructure delivery and future railway operations.
• - Identify and develop new digital capability and systems that build on and complement existing digital engineering excellence, for example through our Building Information Management and Digital Twin tools.
• - Oversee and prioritise digital investment, making sure spend delivers clear value.
• - Lead on the implementation of AI tools to enable the organisation to deliver more efficiently and effectively.
• - Deliver a data and information strategy and operating model that is scalable, flexible and can interoperate with multiple partner organisations.
• - Develop East West Rail’s data capabilities and embed a data led culture including treating data and information as strategic assets.
• - Set data, information and quality standards and establish effective data and information governance and control across corporate systems, project and the supply chain, for example in line with ISO 19650.
• - Deliver high quality data models – getting the best out of our Microsoft Azure environment and recent adoption of Microsoft Fabric.
• - Enable high quality analytics and insight capabilities – making sure information is trusted, accessible and fit for purpose.
• - Embed robust information security standards and practices.
• - Ensure relevant asset and operational information is available and in suitable form for bringing the railway into operation and handing the physical asset over to the Assed Owner in a highly regulated environment.
• - Deliver secure, resilient and scalable technology platforms, including an efficient, interoperable and effective technology architecture.
• - Lead and own cyber security and information risk management, strategy and operations – building on our existing Secure by Design status to make sure East West Rail is a cyber secure organisation.
• - Deliver a high-quality IT operational service to the organisation including end user computing, incident management, service desk, vendor performance and Disaster Recovery.
• - Responsible for managing and supporting direct reports including: coaching and developing team members to drive individual growth and operational excellence.
• - Leading continuous improvement, through regular performance management and ensuring compliance with organisation policies and updating relevant systems.

Senior Project Manager

Assistant Project Manager

Digital, Data & Technology Director