Consultant (Rail technical PM) RC288

• Leading rail projects through initiation, planning, mobilisation, delivery, monitoring and completion.
• Translating client and engineering requirements into structured project plans, deliverables, milestones and work packages.
• Establishing and maintaining effective controls for scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, quality and change.
• Coordinating multidisciplinary teams and ensuring that technical and project activities remain aligned.
• Supporting requirements management, system integration, testing, validation, verification, assurance and acceptance activities.
• Ensuring that project governance, documentation and reporting are accurate, timely and appropriate for clients and senior stakeholders.
• Managing relationships with clients, partners, suppliers and industry stakeholders.
• Facilitating technical discussions, project reviews, workshops and decision-making forums.
• Identifying delivery concerns early and leading the development of proportionate mitigations and recovery actions.
• Supporting commercial management, including forecasting, resource planning, change control and monitoring delivery against budget.
• Lead and coordinate proposal writing activities, ensuring high-quality, client-focused submissions are delivered to challenging timescales.
• Identify and support opportunity development, follow-on work, client engagement and business development activities across the rail portfolio.
• Capturing lessons learned and promoting consistent project management and governance standards across the Rail portfolio.
• Communicating complex engineering and project information clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

The business case identifies the need for a dedicated, experienced Technical Project Manager to strengthen delivery resilience, maintain consistent governance and client engagement, support bid activity and enable technical specialists to focus on high-value engineering work.

We're looking for someone who combines the credibility of an engineer with proven project delivery capability and organisational skills of an experienced project manager. You will thrive in a fast-moving environment, be comfortable leading both project delivery and proposal development activities and enjoy working with clients and technical experts to turn innovative ideas into successful, real-world outcomes with client focus and commercial awareness.

Key Responsibilities

• Support revenue targets.
• Spot opportunities.
• Contribute to bids and proposals.
• Support client confidence in and building credibility of CPC.
• Ensure CRM system is updated with stakeholder contact and any other account information.
• Support scoping and delivery of streams of work.
• Deliver plans as designed.
• Implement effective project management process.
• Organise your own contribution to the work stream.
• Collaborate effectively across the work streams/project team.
• Provide excellence in delivery.
• Meet (or exceed) utilisation targets.
• Promote innovative and professional delivery focus across project team.
• Support buy in across a range of stakeholders through professional and technical expertise.
• Accountable for timely and high-quality actions/tasks and updates.
• Update CRM system with contact of client information.
• Maintain own professional development.
• Ensure an ethos of equity, inclusivity and diversity underpin your work activity, contribute to inclusive innovation across all Catapult activities.
• You may be required to undertake any other reasonable duties to support the Catapult in achieving its strategic outcomes and ensure effective business operations.

Skills, Knowledge And Expertise

• Identify new methodologies or approaches.
• Identify solutions beyond the tried and tested methods.
• Collaborate effectively across teams and disciplines.
• Influence effectively in projects and tasks.
• Customer perspective is understood and applied.
• Uses multi-channel communication to ensure clarity and connection on activities.
• Able to plan and deliver on multiple activities.
• Respond to and learns from change with ease.
• Embed inclusive and sustainability practices in planning and delivery.

Benefits

• 9 day fortnight for everyone, every other Friday.
• 23.5 holiday entitlement for everyone, with pro-rata calculations for part-time employees, along with a Christmas shutdown period for additional days off.
• Competitive pension, up to 10% company contribution to help you save for your future.
• Two paid days of volunteering leave per year (pro-rata for part-time employees) to support charitable activities.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) providing 24/7 confidential work/life support services to you and your immediate family members.
• Cycle to Work Scheme encouraging a healthy and sustainable commute.
• Cash Health Plan, offering reimbursement for a wide range of essential and everyday healthcare expenses, promoting your well-being.
• Payroll Giving scheme, allowing regular charitable contributions from pre-tax income, maximizing the impact of your donations.
• Discounts and offers from a wide variety of retailers, enhancing your purchasing power and providing savings opportunities.
• Mortgage Advice benefit, delivered in partnership with Charles Cameron & Associates – provides employees with free, expert mortgage advice and end-to-end mortgage support from the application process through to completion.

Employment here is based solely upon individual merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. We strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy status, sex, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by law. We also make all reasonable accommodations to meet our obligations under laws protecting the rights of the disabled.