Requirements Manager - DOORS

Job description

Job Description

Salary regional: "Base salary: £40,750pa to c.£50,950pa depending on skills and experience.

Salary London: "Base salary: £43,750pa to c.£54,650pa depending on skills and experience.

In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

Location - London or Birmingham

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a Requirements Manager - DOORS at HS2 you will be responsible for ensuring that the DOORS database is implemented, maintained and managed meeting the needs of the programme, developing the process for deployment across the supply chain and security management of the database. The role holder will also provide support and training to the DOORS user community within HS2 and across suppliers and develop and maintain metrics on requirements lifecycle progression.

About the role:

• Work to the HS2 Requirements Management Plan (and any associated processes and procedures) throughout the HS2 Programme Lifecycle within the context of implementing, maintaining and managing the DOORS database;
• Implementation and maintenance of the DOORS database, engaging with the HS2 IT department to ensure that the infrastructure and access to DOORS are robust for the needs of the programme;
• Develop and maintain the information architecture / requirements schema within the database to meet the needs of the programme, following the Requirements Management Plan and the overall framework for capturing, disaggregating and disseminating requirements from a top-down perspective into the technical and delivery organisations;
• Development of a process for DOORS deployment across HS2 and in the supply chain;
• Development of a process for account and information security management with respect to DOORS across HS2 and in the supply chain;
• Provide support / guidance / training to the DOORS user community within HS2 and across the supply chain;
• Engage with external suppliers as necessary to host, maintain and develop the tool.
• Develop and maintain metrics on status of requirements traceability, requirement lifecycle (including departures), and requirement changes
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About You:

Skills

• For requirements management/DOORS, able to apply principles and methods that ensure effective information management, modelling and data security, basic understanding of data creation and visualisation
• Able to provide specialist technical support and training on requirement management principles and use of DOORS
• Capable of being the DOORS Administrator, managing access rights, set-up of modules, creation and population of attributes, managing links, import and export of data, managing baselines
• Experience with DOORS DXL scripting and Microsoft tools and scripting, such as batch files, powershell, excel, powerquery, power BI
• Understanding of programming techniques

Knowledge

• Knowledge of requirements management practices, systems engineering and systems integration.
• Understanding of the impact of hierarchies and relationship between requirements to deliver an integrated solution.
• Chartered Engineer/Membership of an appropriate professional institution or working towards with the equivalent experience.
• Meets minimum CPD requirement for professional institution every year.

Experience

• Experience in managing requirements activities on any engineering projects/ programmes
• Experience of managing competing project and engineering demands, with cost and schedule implications on any engineering projects/ programmes.
• Experience of managing requirements databases in a multi-disciplinary and complex project environment.

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process - YouTube

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.