Buckinghamshire Council
HS2 Project Coordinator
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HS2 Project Coordinator
HS2 Project Co-ordinator – Fixed Term/Secondment Opportunity (18 Months)
Overview
Help shape the UK’s largest infrastructure project—HS2—by playing a pivotal role in supporting Buckinghamshire Council’s Highways and Planning teams through this landmark development across over 60km in Buckinghamshire.
As the HS2 railway line’s construction progresses, there is a constant need to process, review, and approve highway and planning consents. This opportunity offers a dynamic fixed-term role where you’ll:
- Support cross-team coordination for HS2’s highway and planning consents in statutory capacities.
- Work within a complex but evolving legal framework to facilitate timely approvals.
- Provide central project coordination for applicants, ensuring they comply with Council requirements.
This role will operate across 18 months, with potential further coordination and project management opportunities to arise within the service.
About Buckinghamshire Council
Buckinghamshire Council is a unified authority formed from our five historic councils, focused on delivering positive change for communities, businesses, and residents. Our mission is to:
- Serve residents better with stronger local representation.
- Drive sustainability and economic growth through key infrastructure projects like HS2.
We believe in inclusivity, innovation, and playing our part in building a brighter future for Buckinghamshire.
About the Role
This is an exciting fixed-term opportunity to play a critical support role in ensuring the HS2 project in Buckinghamshire delivers on time and adheres to all statutory standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Process and administer temporary and permanent highway works applications submitted by HS2 Main Works Contractors, ensuring compliance with statutory deadlines.
- Facilitate review and consultation with Council officers, coordinating responses to design reviews from HS2 Ltd for highway and rail-related applications.
- Murders and manages consenting workflows for high-profile infrastructure, including monitoring documentation and reporting progress via Microsoft systems.
- Acts as the central liaison between HS2 contractors, internal teams, and external stakeholders on highways and planning matters.
Critical day-to-day tasks include
- Logging and distributing approval requests to the relevant Buckinghamshire Council officers while monitoring progression against agreed timelines.
- Managing shared inboxes for both highways and planning workflows.
- Coordinating the CCTV traffic-monitoring system: reviewing contractor-provided camera footage and liaising with operators regarding traffic movement and network issues.
- Assisting HS2 project meetings through note-taking, documentation control, financial administration, and appeals management.
Expected Tasks
- Auditing email workflows to ensure timely action on all correspondence.
- Handling financial administration (timesheets, invoices, and budget monitoring).
- Supporting appeals lodged by HS2 contractors under Council protocols.
- Collaborating with Town Planning and Highways Team Leaders on administrative tasks and Member Information Group meetings.
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Key Accountabilities
✅ Coordinate and monitor statutory approval requests from HS2 Ltd, distributing to BC officers in line with timescales. ✅ Manage email inboxes efficiently for the planning and highways teams. ✅ Oversee and report on the CCTV monitoring project, dash with HS2 contractors, and council members to manage any potential network issues. ✅ Provide confidential administrative support to HS2-related stakeholder meetings. ✅ Input data into management reports, audit inboxes monthly, and ensure workloads are organised prioritised. ✅ Manage financial administration, including time recording invoicing and cost recovery from HS2 Ltd payments. ✅ Support team leaders in planning and highways with day-to-day administrative tasks, throughout the project lifetime. ✅ Act as a facilitator for planning consent applications relevant to HS2’s main works and subsequent rail system testing phase.
About You
We seek a proactive, detail-oriented individual with strong co-ordinating, administrative, and project support skills. Essential characteristics for this role include:
Skills & Experience
🔹 Previous experience in highways management, planning, or related infrastructure roles—preferably knowledge of HS2-related regulations and statutory processes. 🔹 Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical matters for stakeholders. 🔹 Proven initiative, capable of innovating practice and procedures to address evolving HS2 challenges specifically traffic logistics. 🔹 Exceptional organisation skills to manage competing deadlines with a persistent pre-domain to priority. 🔹 Exposure to project management methodologies and experience prioritising tasks in dynamic scenarios. 🔹 Technical proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially Outlook, SharePoint, and Excel), with familiarity of Uniform or IDOX systems advantageous. 🔹 A comprehensive understanding of modern UK highway and planning processes, incorporating HS2 Act requirements.
Person-Specific Traits
✔️ Possess a client-focused mindset and ability to engage with contractors and council members transparently. ✔️ Experience with public-sector coordination (or equivalent role in private sector) allowing for fast and effective switches between internal and external stakeholders. ✔️ Willingness to take ownership of monitoring, reporting, and actions for critical project deliverables with minimal oversight. ✔ Exceptional attention detail when assessing and approving construction permits, contracts, and compliance documentation.
Other Information
Apply Bottom Line
This position closes at midnight, 23rd July 2026. Only one vacancy is available.
Selection Process
📩 Interview type/process: TBA. Consideration of candidates will be rolling, so early applicants are encouraged to apply.
Contact for Informal Discussion
Should you have questions, reach out to: 📧 Tom Blackman, via [email protected] (subject: PCO HS2 Role).
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Why Join Buckinghamshire Council?
Our Values
We exist and operate by four core values:
- Proud of our community and achievements
- Ambitious to drive positive and sustainable change
- Collaborative with teams, partners, and residents
- Trustworthy in fulfilling commitments to each other and the public
Benefits
✅ A training, development and career progression program tailored to your strengths. ✅ Flexible Working, Opportunities to balance workload with personal commitments, including working from home. ✅ Well-being provisions: Employee Assistance Programs, mental health first aiders, and mindfulness sessions. ✅ Discounts on local cafes, restaurants, gym memberships, travel with Arriva, and cost of goods through Costco membership. ✅ Employee Representative Group for unified Services ✅ Dedicated Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion support, including staff networks and Disability Confidence accreditation.
About the Planning, Growth & Sustainability Directorate
Our Mission: To shape the future of Buckinghamshire through smart planning, economic growth, regeneration, infrastructure, and transport. Key initiatives include:
- Challenges the economic foresight of Bucks in jobs creation and infrastructure expansion.
- Delivers rapid, responsive, succession plans.
- Builds impactful infrastructure ensuring community property income generation.
What You’ll Accomplish in This Role
- Have the opportunity to work on high-profile development projects as ambitious as the HS2 enhancement.
- Play a crucial role on architectural and maintaining the safety nowadays for a landmark national rail project.
- Help create freedom of procedure for residents by turning regulatory scrutiny into effective public service.
We Recognize and Reward Commitment
- **Fair and transparent compensation *** Pension schemes including auto-enrollment.
- Active support for work & life balance.
- Inclusivity, empathy, and supportive environment for all employees.
- Promote staff networking, personal development through training, events, voluntary and council volunteering opportunities.
We turn aim at generating success for Buckinghamshire. If you have a strong commitment to infrastructure responsibility and ambition, we would like to hear from you.
Apply Now to start shaping tomorrow’s rail and road networks – together.
For more details, contact Tom Blackman, Human Resources or visit jobs.buckinghamshire.gov.uk.
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