Project Innovation Lead - London, United Kingdom - Appcastenterprise

Appcastenterprise

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Job Introduction

About the role:

To drive a step-change in the understanding and prioritisation of behaviours, innovation and activities that improve team performance, productivity, quality of outputs and wellbeing of stakeholders engaged with the project (stakeholders being clients, shareholders,supply chain partners and employees, plus others).

Flexible working:
We welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need. This might be part-time, remote working, or compressed hours for example. Anyone who applies for a role can ask about flexibility at interview. In return, we will explore whatis possible for the role.

Role Responsibility

Responsible for engaging senior leaders to sponsor key innovation(s) to improve team performance, productivity, planning and critical delivery compliance.
Review innovation strategic direction / objectives / targets enabling performance improvement whilst ensuring continued alignment to the wider SCSJV strategic goals.
Work with senior leaders to implement innovation and improvement strategies, embed best practice and strategic thinking.
Structure innovation portfolio and improvement activities in the short, medium and long term, using proven project management principles and improvement techniques, leading others along the journey.
Engage, coach, and collaborate with, stakeholders at all levels aligned to the innovation community's strategy.
Drive a project wide continuous improvement, innovation, knowledge transfer culture and environment.
Enable and empower community stakeholders to drive accountability and share ideas.
Understand the "voice of the customer" to align team performance across both operational and service delivery.
Promote team and project successes to enhance both SCSJV and HS2 reputation, leaving a legacy across parent companies, HS2 route and wider industry.
Maintain close working relationships with collaboration, communications, and project improvement to form the 'corporate glue' to drive high performance teams across the project.
Build relationships across parent companies (UK and globally) and other HS2 MWCC, as appropriate.
Be a role model, upholding the values and behaviours of SCS and HS2

Skills & Experience:

Experience of working with senior leaders creating an improvement culture and environment.
Experience within the construction and infrastructure sector preferred.
Experience of managing innovation in a senior capacity.
Experience of enabling and directing a structured portfolio of innovation projects across both technical and commercial areas within a complex safety critical programme
Experience of developing and coaching multidisciplined teams, across multiple locations.
Effective communicator and facilitator, ability to build strong networks and influence at a senior level.
Comfortable taking on a "disrupter" role, challenging norms and driving innovation to benefit the project.
Strong written and analytical skills to assess data, understand trends and facilitate activities based on relevant information.
Able to work in an agile manner, fast paced and able to identify and resolve blockers efficiently and effectively.

Qualifications:

Hold relevant CSCS card

Competencies:

Deliver results enable short, medium

- and long-term outcomes

Focus on customers balance the needs of internal and external stakeholder communities
Improve our business enable informed decisionmaking based on factbased evidence and the measurement of performance data
Drive sustainability
Communicate high impact and influential. Understand communication benefits to leadership and organisation stability
Develop yourself
Lead people motivate and empower others to drive and improve standards of performance
Lead teams be comfortable coordinating a range of activities, inspiring staff towards a common goal.

About the Company
The role will work on the HS2 project. HS2 is the UK's new high speed rail network. It will be a catalyst for economic growth across Britain, freeing up space on the existing railways and connecting 8 out of the UK's 10 biggest cities with fast, reliableand frequent high speed services

The Skanska | Costain | STRABAG (SCS JV) is delivering the HS2 London Tunnels Contract.

Scope of works includes twin-bored tunnels (TBM), SCL tunnels, shaft sinking, bridge demolition and reconstruction, services diversions, earthworks and the constructionof site compounds.

You'll be a welcomed member of the wider team, with opportunities to take on additional responsibility, join one of our networks for women, military or LGBT+ staff, and participate in cultural and social events with the local community (e.g. as a STEM ambassador).

Your personal and professional development is important to us.

We welcome a discussion about how we can support you with further study, or professional membership or attainment for example.

It is an SCSJV requirement that all employees, Design House,and Supply Chains must implement and comply with the requirements of ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System, ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management System with guidance for use", OHSAS 18001:2017Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 Information Security Management System, Policies, Plans, Procedures and Processes, and statutory requirements as they affect the Joint Venture 's operations and ensure that the requirements,as applicable within their discipline, are effectively implemented on the project.

Develop a culture of safety on the project through the absolute commitment to the Zero Accidents