Change Lead (PMO)
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Ireland, Dublin, Dublin
- Contracts and Procurement
- Permanent
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Type: Permanent/Contract – Hybrid
Location: Dublin, Ireland
TRS are urgently looking for a Change Lead to work as part of the PMO in Dublin. The Change Lead oversees the end-to-end change process for infrastructure projects, ensuring compliance with NEC4 contract requirements and internal Variation Order procedures.
Job Description
Change Lead is a critical role within the wider PMO function, responsible for overseeing and guiding the change control process throughout a major infrastructure programme, ensuring that all changes such as compensation events, identified issues, and programme changes are identified, assessed, and managed effectively.
The role holder will provide leadership and direction in establishing and maintaining a robust and efficient change control framework for both internal and external project changes. They work closely with key project functions to drive a consistent and disciplined approach to change, ensuring clarity, traceability, and alignment across the programme.
The Change Lead develops, implements, and continuously improves comprehensive change control processes, collaborating across all relevant teams to ensure a unified and holistic approach to managing change for the major rail project. The role ensures that change is controlled, impacts are fully understood, and decisions are made in a timely and informed manner to support successful programme outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Comply with the execution of the programme’s Change Control Plan, ensuring consistent application across all delivery areas.
- Engage proactively with the Directorate and cross-functional teams—including Technical, Planning, Risk, and Cost—to manage and maintain the programme scope baseline.
- Drive the development, enhancement, and governance of change control policies, processes, and standards, applying industry best practice to ensure continuous improvement and consistent implementation throughout the programme.
- Oversee and support the application of contingency management processes, ensuring alignment with programme governance.
- Provide leadership and subject matter expertise across the change control process, reviewing early warnings, assessing mitigation strategies, and guiding the evaluation and authorisation of compensation and change events.
- Undertake quality and assurance reviews of change proposals, ensuring clarity of impacts on scope, budget, and schedule, and escalating issues or risks where required.
- Maintain oversight and governance of the programme-wide change register, ensuring accurate reporting and clear communication of change status to enable timely decisions and financial approvals.
- Build and sustain effective working relationships across delivery teams, provide expert guidance and coaching on scope and change control practices.
- Carry out additional responsibilities or tasks as required to support effective change in governance and programme delivery.
Required Experience
- Minimum Level 8 degree in relevant discipline, e.g. Construction, Project Management, Quantity Surveying or other STEM related degree.
- 15 years’ experience of managing change or project controls management in a large-scale organisation or projects of a similar scale / complexity.
- Experience in project management or project controls.
- Experience in a previous role as Project Controls Manager with proven track record of successful delivery in an infrastructure environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, enabling clear, consistent, and influential engagement with stakeholders at all levels.
- Strong organisational and time‑management abilities, ensuring effective coordination and oversight of all activities within the change control process.
- In‑depth knowledge of change control and change management principles, methodologies, and tools, with the ability to apply them in a complex programme environment.
- Proven capability in designing, establishing, and implementing change control processes, including scope alteration protocols and governance frameworks.
- Ability to lead and manage structured reviews throughout the lifecycle of change initiatives, ensuring alignment, quality, and compliance with programme standards.
- Strong analytical skills to assess the impacts of change proposals on programme scope, schedule, cost, risk, and interfaces, and to communicate these implications clearly and persuasively to decision‑makers.
- Ability to evaluate progress, methodologies, and ongoing relevance of change activities across all phases of the project lifecycle.
- Highly collaborative working style, with a proven ability to build strong relationships and deliver clear, concise communication across multidisciplinary teams.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; age; sex; sexual orientation; gender identity; religion; national origin; disability; veteran status; genetic information; or any other criteria protected by governing law.
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