Highways England are inviting a secondment from the partners of the Motorway Alliance for the position of Digital Product Catalogue Dataset Lead
The Opportunity
This is a unique opportunity to join a pioneering team that will lead in standardising the delivery of motorway construction projects across the strategic road network.
Reporting into the Head of Products, the Digital Product Catalogue and Dataset Lead will imbed a programmatic approach to developing and populating a central depository (HE’s Digital Product Catalogue) to enable SMP Alliance projects to access standardised products, digital models and associated data information to deliver efficiencies to schemes and stakeholders. You will also lead on the future development of the Digital Product Catalogue for the SMP Alliance working in collaboration with HE.
By collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders across the SMP Alliance in both production and support services and our wider supply chain you’ll utilise your knowledge and experience and ensure the standardised digital models and data information are adding value to schemes driving efficiencies through standardisation. You will be integral in developing our DfMA approach within the SMP Alliance. You will equip the SMP Alliance to deliver its strategic goals around its three imperatives of safety, customer and delivery.
To ensure that all initiatives and work related to the Digital Product Catalogue within the SMP Alliance are aligned with the wider Highways England Major Projects, it will also be essential that you establish an excellent working relationship with Highways England’s, Innovation Reapplied and Digital by Default teams. We inspire each other every day to be ever more innovative and successful in delivery. This is a unique opportunity to join a ground-breaking team that will lead in developing new ways of delivering motorway construction projects across the strategic road network.
Responsibilities
• Collaborate to agree components, assemblies and systems that are to be incorporated into the Digital Product Catalogue that benefit the SMP Alliance.
• Lead on creating dataset templates for the SMP Alliance, which support the component through the full lifecycle of a scheme and improve handover of assets into maintenance, ensuring a programmatic approach for content where possible.
• Lead on development of digital models and supporting datasets for approved assets to ensure adoption and deployment repeatedly across the SMP Alliance
• Ensure components, assemblies and system that are included in Digital Product Catalogue meet required standards and have supporting datasets, including asset data management requirements to enable the successful adoption on schemes.
• Create and deploy a process for populating and version controlling the Digital Product Catalogue and datasets ensuring alignment with the SMP Alliance Design Rules
• Engaging with people and teams both within and outside of the SMP Alliance, fostering relationships to maximise opportunities and support successful delivery of the DPC across the SMP Alliance.
• Engaging and collaborating with supply chain partners to obtain product information.
About You
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following:
• A relevant background, this includes but is not limited to; Project Managers, Design Manager, Consultants, Transformation Managers, Change Managers, Interface Managers.
• Understanding in the implementation of project information modelling (PIM) and project / asset information management within the construction and engineering sector, preferably in transport infrastructure.
• Excellent communication (both verbal and written) and interpersonal skills; able to influence, engender commitment to deliver on a purpose and engage with people, comfortable with presenting ideas and views, able to constructively probe and offer an alternative perspective in discussions.
• A proven ability to work collaboratively within real and virtual teams, sharing information and engaging the right people to make decisions in an effective and timely manner.
So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.
About Us
The SMP Alliance consists of Highways England and 7 partners including;
• Fluor (production management)
• Jacobs and WSP (digital enabled design) and
• Balfour Beatty, Costain and BAM Nuttall/Morgan Sindall joint venture (onsite Assembly Partners) Our goal is to unite diverse teams, unleash fresh thinking and transform delivery. We believe that collaboration is key to creating one team.
Collectively, the Alliance will design and construct the smart motorways programme over a 10-year period covering the Government’s Road Investment Strategy 2 and 3. The Alliance is transforming the way we deliver schemes by
applying a programmatic approach, utilising digital rehearsals and embedding methods of construction such as off-site manufacture. There will be a greater emphasis on digital technology, increased efficiency, and standardisation. The Alliance will drive value throughout the project lifecycle and promote a better way of working by integrating a diverse supplier network to form a wider enterprise to improve safety, create a better customer experience and deliver greater efficiency.
Inclusion and Diversity is our future. Be part of it
Our collaborative culture is underpinned by our agreed behaviours - decision making, accountability, communication and engagement, innovation and improvement, constructive challenge and trust and respect.
Inclusion and diversity are core attributes to our identity. Employees feel engaged, connected, valued and respected for who they are. For us, this means creating a culture of belonging where we all thrive by embracing all perspectives. We positively encourage applications from qualified candidates from all diverse groups. We are committed to not only enhancing diversity of skills but also to addressing gender imbalance. This diversity is key to bringing different insights, creating challenge, and encouraging innovation and transformation within the construction sector.
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