Technical Assurance Manager Rail

Overview

As Assurance Manager, you will own technical assurance across HS2 delivery contracts within the Integration Directorate. You will work with contractors and design organisations to ensure outputs are properly assured, integrated and delivered to required standards. You’ll collaborate with Risk, Requirements, Configuration and Change, and BIM teams to manage multidisciplinary interfaces and assurance activities. This is a delivery-facing, contractor-facing role at the heart of a major high‑speed rail programme, demanding stakeholder management and clear technical leadership. You will shape how design and engineering evidence supports risk management and compliance across the programme.

Responsibilities

• Manage technical assurance across one or more delivery contracts
• Liaise with contractors, designers and HS2 functions including Risk, Requirements, Configuration, Change and BIM
• Oversee assurance activities, design reviews and engineering processes across multidisciplinary interfaces
• Review and accept technical assurance evidence and documentation
• Identify and escalate technical risks, issues and assurance gaps
• Author and review technical documentation, reports and assurance processes
• Deliver technical briefings and presentations to varied stakeholders
• Support audits, verification activities and the collection of technical evidence
• Monitor how different design disciplines and organisations interface and integrate

Key requirements

• Experience in technical assurance, design management, systems engineering or project engineering
• Experience working with contractors and design organisations on major infrastructure projects
• Strong understanding of assurance principles, systems and frameworks
• Experience working across multidisciplinary programmes or projects
• Rail experience is essential; high-speed rail experience is highly desirable
• Understanding of systems engineering and technical integration
• Knowledge of CDM 2015 requirements
• Strong stakeholder and supply chain management skills
• Ability to communicate effectively across different engineering disciplines
• Experience authoring and reviewing technical documentation

• Stakeholder management
• Effective communication
• Cross-disciplinary collaboration
• Technical assurance
• Systems engineering
• Design reviews

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