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About IPDR
Industry Partnership for Digital Railway (IPDR) is a national and cross-industry enterprise with the mission of creating the next generation railway, through the deployment of European Train Control System (ETCS) digital train control technology. This represents a migration to a safer, higher-performing, more resilient, more efficient, better skilled, more productive, and greener railway, delivering passenger benefits in the areas of safety, punctuality and resilience, and taxpayer benefits through reduction in capital and whole life costs.
Within IPDR we also operate the Digital Signalling Portfolio to oversee the wider rollout of ETCS across Great Britain and make it easier for Regions and schemes to deploy ETCS. Through the portfolio we will co-ordinate and deliver fleet fitment activities, work to develop robust, repeatable approaches to technical delivery and business change, increase supply chain capability and capacity, and deliver initiatives to build the industry's capability to efficiently plan, design, deliver, operate and maintain an ETCS railway.
The role will focus on establishing and overseeing the delivery of projects to implement ETCS onboard fitment as part of the National Passenger train fleet programme. This includes implementing the agreed strategy, establishing and overseeing the projects needed to fit or upgrade passenger trains with ETCS.
Operating within a national portfolio environment, the role requires alignment between fleet strategy, operator readiness, deployment triggers and staged governance approvals.
IPDR is a founding and central part of GBRX, leading the national migration to European Train Control System (ETCS) digital train control technology. As the railway transitions toward a Great British Railways operating model, IPDR is helping to shape the standards, operating assumptions and cross-industry approaches that will define how ETCS is deployed and managed at scale.
Working within a wider team of commercial managers, engineers and planners, you will lead and coordinate the development of a programme of passenger fleet enablement and associated business readiness activity within the IPDR portfolio. We need someone with Project Management experience to effectively progress this work.
You will lead the delivery of technical and commercial development activity to deliver the instructed scope to fit or upgrade ETCS onboard equipment on existing rolling stock, working closely with the wider portfolio team, rolling stock owning companies (ROSCO's), train operators (TOC's) and the Department for Transport. You will also ensure that train operator business readiness plans are in place and integrated into the delivery plan.
This is a strategically significant role at the forefront of digital railway migration, contributing to the development of industry norms and governance approaches that will underpin passenger ETCS deployment in CP7, CP8 (Funding Period 1) and beyond.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish and oversee the delivery, within agree time and cost parameters, of projects to implement ETCS onboard fitment as part of the National Passenger train fleet programme.
- Ensure that operator business readiness plans are in place and integrated into the delivery plan.
- Deliver agreed deliverables within the PACE framework.
- Oversee contracting and procurement strategies, ensuring alignment with legal, corporate, and governance standards, while fostering collaboration with the supply chain.
- Deliver to scope and programme reflecting project SPEED and PACE principles.
This role is based in London Kings Cross and requires working from our office at least 3 days a week.
What's in it for you
Here are a few of the benefits we offer
- 28-day annual leave with the option to buy and sell days
- Choice of pension schemes
- 75% discount of leisure travel for you and your family
- Private Healthcare
- 5 days paid volunteer or carers leave
- Up to 75% subsidised Rail and Underground travel
- Gym Pass -access to gyms across UK
- My Benefits platform- giving national and local retail discount
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