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Senior HR Business Partner
Job description:
LFB has been on a journey of transformation and improvement over the last few years and this includes improving the culture of the organisation and modernising our ways of working. Our journey is clearly laid out in our Community Risk Management Plan, ‘Your London Fire Brigade’, demonstrating our commitment to evolve and meet future challenges.
Following organisational restructure, the London Fire Brigade is now focused on embedding a new HR Business Partnering model. This Senior Human Resources Business Partner role offers the opportunity to help define and deliver a mature, trusted, and high-impact HR service.
You will work with a recently established HRBP team, embedding and developing new ways of working, strengthening stakeholder confidence, and resetting expectations of the HR function. Partnering with senior leaders, you will provide strategic, pragmatic advice on complex people matters, supporting organisational resilience and effective leadership in a critical public service environment.
Utilising data to provide strategic insights, you will collaborate with departments leads at Deputy Assistant Commissioner (DAC) and Top Management Group (TMG) level to deliver HR services in line with policy and procedure as well as the Brigade’s Values of Service, Courage, Learning, Teamwork, Integrity and Equity.
You will be integral in providing HR expertise throughout organisational change, supporting leaders and workforce improvements.
Within the People Services Directorate, you will successfully manage and develop your Business Partners and support professional development.
You will have excellent interpersonal skills and people skills to develop and maintain positive and effective working relationships with senior leaders within the business and subject matter experts across HR and other enabling functions.
Head of Profession – Telecoms & OT Cyber Security
Job Description
This is a unique and exciting opportunity to join the TfL Engineering & Asset Strategy senior leadership community as Head of Profession – Telecoms & OT Cyber Security.
The TfL Engineering & Asset Strategy Directorate brings together around 2,000 staff as a unified centre of engineering excellence, providing technical leadership across TfL and enabling the delivery of safe, reliable and sustainable whole-life asset outcomes. The Directorate is accountable for setting technical strategy, defining engineering requirements, maintaining standards, and providing technical assurance across one of the world’s most complex transport networks.
As the recognised technical authority for Telecoms & OT Cyber Security, you will have the opportunity to shape one of TfL’s most strategically important engineering professions. Telecommunications infrastructure, connected systems and operational technology underpin the safe and reliable operation of London’s transport network, supporting millions of customer journeys every day.
The profession is entering an exciting period of transformation. As operational assets become increasingly connected, data-driven and digitally enabled, TfL is expanding its traditional Telecoms Engineering capability to encompass a broader Connected Systems & Cyber Infrastructure profession. This role will play a pivotal part in defining that future, ensuring TfL remains at the forefront of secure, resilient and connected transport infrastructure.
Working across TfL and with industry partners, suppliers, regulators and professional institutions, you will influence enterprise-wide strategy, support major investment decisions and help drive engineering excellence, innovation and best practice across the organisation.
About the Role
Operating within TfL’s Engineering & Asset Strategy Directorate, you will provide enterprise-wide strategic and technical leadership for Telecoms, Connected Systems and Operational Technology (OT) Cyber Security, ensuring associated assets and systems remain safe, resilient, secure and fit for future operational requirements.
You will lead the transformation of our existing Telecoms Engineering function, expanding its scope to encompass a broader connected systems and cyber infrastructure profession whilst maintaining excellence across our transport telecoms asset estate (e.g. operational radio, OPO CCTV, public address, control, supervisory and SCADA systems, etc.). You will establish the technical standards, governance, capabilities and strategic direction required to support increasingly connected, data-driven and cyber-secure operational environments.
A key aspect of the role will be building capability both within the profession and across the wider engineering community, whilst fostering collaboration across TfL departments. You will champion the development of skills, awareness and competencies in connected systems and cyber security, recognising that engineers across all disciplines have a role to play in delivering safe, resilient and secure operational infrastructure.
You will lead the evolution of the profession by developing the frameworks, standards and competencies required to support OT cyber security, connected infrastructure technologies and data-enabled asset management. This includes promoting the use of connectivity, telemetry, sensing, remote monitoring and automation technologies to improve asset visibility, optimise asset performance and support condition-based and predictive maintenance strategies.
As the recognised technical authority for the profession, you will ensure effective integration and interoperability across telecommunications, operational technology, digital platforms and physical assets, particularly within complex environments where legacy and modern systems coexist. You will also ensure that cyber security principles are embedded across operational technology environments, with risks arising from increased connectivity identified, managed and mitigated appropriately.
This is also a significant people leadership role. You will lead and inspire a professional engineering community, developing future capability through workforce planning, professional development, succession planning and competence management. Through visible and inspirational leadership, you will foster innovation, continuous improvement and a “One TfL” mindset, ensuring engineering decisions support operational resilience, safety, performance and long-term value for London.
About You
You are an accomplished engineering leader with deep expertise in telecommunications, connected systems, operational technology and cyber security. You have successfully operated within highly complex, safety-critical and regulated environments, combining technical authority with the ability to shape long-term strategic outcomes.
You have extensive experience developing technical strategies, engineering standards, governance and assurance frameworks for large-scale infrastructure organisations. You understand the challenges associated with ageing assets, increasing connectivity, cyber risk and system interoperability, and can translate these into practical, deliverable engineering solutions that support both operational performance and long-term asset sustainability.
As a respected Head of Profession, you have a proven track record of building and developing high-performing engineering communities. You understand the importance of workforce planning, capability development, competence management and succession planning, ensuring the profession has the skills, resources and leadership required to meet current and future business needs.
You are experienced in aligning professional capability with organisational priorities, enabling the successful delivery of major programmes and projects while supporting the safe operation, maintenance and renewal of critical assets. You are skilled at balancing strategic objectives, operational requirements and investment priorities to deliver whole-life value.
You are recognised for your ability to lead and unite diverse technical teams, creating an environment of collaboration, innovation and continuous learning. You are passionate about developing future capability and fostering a culture of professional excellence across both your own profession and the wider engineering community.
Highly influential and credible, you are comfortable engaging with executive leaders, industry bodies, regulators and external partners. You bring exceptional stakeholder management skills and can confidently navigate complex technical, operational and commercial challenges while maintaining a focus on safety, resilience, security and customer outcomes.
A Chartered Engineer (or equivalent) and ideally hold Fellowship of a relevant professional institution, with significant experience in telecommunications, operational technology, cyber security or other comparable critical infrastructure environments.
Essential Criteria (Must Have)
- Chartered Engineer (or equivalent) with recognised professional standing within a relevant engineering discipline.
- Extensive experience leading technical strategy, engineering governance, assurance and professional leadership within large-scale, complex infrastructure organisations.
- Demonstrable understanding of Engineering Safety Management principles, with the ability to develop, challenge and assure safety justifications that support asset investment, operational decision-making, and the introduction or modification of engineering systems within safety-critical environments.
- Significant expertise in telecommunications, connected systems, operational technology and/or cyber security within operational or critical infrastructure environments.
- Proven experience developing engineering standards, policies and capability frameworks to support asset management, operational performance and the successful delivery of major programmes and projects.
- Demonstrable experience leading the delivery, integration or assurance of complex engineering solutions and infrastructure projects, balancing technical, operational, commercial and delivery considerations.
- Experience building organisational capability through strategic workforce planning, competence management, professional development and succession planning.
- Strong understanding of asset lifecycle management, operational resilience, systems integration, infrastructure modernisation and cyber-enabled technologies.
- Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and provide authoritative technical leadership across engineering, operations, technology, project delivery and executive communities.
Desirable Criteria
- Fellowship of a relevant professional institution.
- Experience within transport, utilities, defence or other safety-critical infrastructure sectors.
- Advanced knowledge and practical application of OT cyber security frameworks, standards and assurance practices.
- Experience implementing data-driven asset management, remote monitoring, condition-based maintenance or predictive maintenance approaches.
- Track record of leading digital transformation and the adoption of emerging technologies within infrastructure or engineering environments.
- Experience leading major technology modernisation programmes involving legacy and connected operational systems.
A spotlight session will be held on 21st July from 13.00. To attend this or for an informal discussion regarding the role, please contact Jay Patel of the Executive Recruitment, at TalentAcquisitionandExecutiveRecruitment@tfl.gov.uk.
Governance and Assurance Lead
Job description
All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks. Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK. At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
*Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.
Overview of role
This role is responsible for establishing, implementing, and continuously improving engineering governance frameworks, policies, and processes across Engineering & Asset Strategy. The role ensures robust technical assurance and oversight of engineering risk management, including asset safety verification in collaboration with the Chief Safety Officer.
The post holder leads the development of clear and effective governance arrangements where none exist, ensures compliance with engineering standards, and provides independent assurance on behalf of the Director of Engineering & Asset Strategy. This role is critical in maintaining safety, integrity, and accountability across TfL’s engineering activities.
Key Accountabilities
- To provide strategic leadership in driving the delivery and implementation of the detailed design phase E&AS’s Technical Governance (TG) workstream.
- Communicate the ambition and benefits of the TG initiative in a compelling manner to ensure wide-spread buy-in and support across the organisation.
- Manage team members and work collaboratively with external consultants and the TG Working Group to achieve the key milestones.
- Identify key and / or recurrent issues arising from TG reviews and assessments and inform SLT and align work with wider / existing E&AS and / or TfL initiatives to avoid duplication and maximise synergies and impact.
- Identify and develop synergies between the TG and other workstreams and initiatives in E&AS and wider TfL to maximise impact in achieving TfL corporate objectives.
- Create and embed a technical governance strategy for engineering and asset strategy, this includes defining technical authority and escalation routes for decision-making.
- Develop assurance processes tailored to different delivery models (e.g., capital programmes) and standardise governance practices across modes and projects.
- Implement mechanisms to track compliance and assurance activities, through defining governance and assurance reporting lines (e.g., Chief Capital Officer, Chief Safety Officer, Executive Committee).
- Work with SLT and delivery areas to clarify accountabilities and close gaps and act as escalation point for disputes or ambiguity in technical decisions.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Skills
- Policy & Process Development-ability to design and embed governance and assurance frameworks from scratch.
- Stakeholder Engagement & Influence- Skilled at working with senior leaders, technical heads, and delivery teams to gain buy-in.
- Analytical & Critical Thinking-Assess gaps in compliance and assurance processes and identify efficiencies.
- Communication & Reporting-Clear articulation of governance requirements and assurance outcomes to senior stakeholders.
- Change Management- Drive cultural and behavioural change to embed governance practices across diverse teams.
Knowledge
- Technical Governance Frameworks -deep understanding of governance principles, assurance processes, and compliance requirements in engineering.
- Standards & Regulatory Requirements-knowledge of industry standards, safety regulations, and organisational accountability for compliance.
- Engineering & Asset Management-familiarity with engineering disciplines and asset lifecycle management across multiple modes.
- Risk Management- Understanding of operational, reputational, and compliance risks and how governance mitigates them.
- Organisational Structures & Delivery Models-awareness of how engineering interfaces with delivery areas and capital programmes.
Experience
- Experience of delivering change and actively challenging the status quo to find new ways of doing things, by drawing on and looking for good practice.
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to engage confidently with senior leaders and build effective working relationships, with people at all levels across the organisation.
- Excellent communication skills both written and oral with an ability to influence and inspire at all levels in achieving a common vision or goal.
- Excellent leadership of both direct reports and wider delivery teams, including experience of driving timely project delivery.
Technical Strategy Lead
Job description
All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks. Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK. At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
*Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.
Overview of role
This role is responsible for directing the development of technical strategies across TfL to enhance business performance and inform long-term asset planning. Working in collaboration with subject matter experts, the role sponsors research, development, and technological innovation to address key organisational challenges.
Operating at a strategic level, the post holder defines and coordinates the future technical direction for all TfL assets within the governance of Engineering & Asset Strategy. This includes setting a long-term vision over a 10–50 year horizon, anticipating technological change, and ensuring TfL is positioned to adopt emerging solutions that optimise asset performance, resilience, and value.
Key Accountabilities
- Develop long-term strategies for the next-generation assets (e.g., signalling, power systems, cooling solutions) working closing with Engineering teams and other industries and organisations for best practice in relation to the deployment of innovative technological solutions and asset technical strategies
- Identify and prioritise organisational challenges requiring technical solutions through defining and coordinating the development of future technical strategy for engineering assets ensuring adoption across projects and reducing technical costs year-on-year.
- Monitor emerging technologies (AI, quantum computing, automation) and carryout external benchmarking against industry best practices (e.g., Network Rail, global rail operators).
- Consolidate input from heads of profession and technical disciplines and articulate technical strategies to the business to secure stakeholder buy-in.
- Build partnerships with third parties for trials and innovation projects and explore joint ventures and commercial collaborations.
- Sponsor research, development and innovation, prioritising strategies that deliver measurable cost, safety, and sustainability benefits. Aligning strategies with capital plans and producing clear benefits profiles for all initiatives.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Skills
- Skilled at engaging senior leaders, technical experts, and external partners to gain buy-in and alignment.
- Strong capability to frame complex challenges, identify options, and drive innovative solutions.
- Ability to bring together diverse inputs from heads of profession, technical disciplines, and external organisations.
- Excellent written and verbal skills to clearly present technical strategies and challenges to non-technical audiences.
- Ability to evaluate emerging technologies, benchmark practices, and assess feasibility of solutions.
Knowledge
- Understanding of transport infrastructure assets (e.g., signalling, power systems, cooling solutions).
- Awareness of emerging technologies such as AI, automation, quantum computing, and their application in transport.
- Familiarity with approaches used by other major transport organisations (e.g., Network Rail, global rail operators).
- High-level understanding of safety, reliability, and compliance requirements in transport engineering.
Experience
- Proven experience in developing and implementing technical or asset strategies.
- Experience coordinating across multiple technical disciplines and business units.
- Track record of working with external partners, suppliers, or research institutions on innovation projects.
- Experience managing complex programmes or initiatives involving multiple stakeholders.
- Exposure to introducing new technologies or solutions within a large organisation.
Engineering Control Document Lead
Job description
All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory right‑to‑work checks. Candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK. At the present time TfL is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
*Hybrid working within this role enables a balance of 50 per cent of time split between the office and home over a 4-week period. Hybrid working arrangements can evolve subject to business requirements.
Overview of role
This role is responsible for the leadership and management of technical documentation within the scope of Engineering & Asset Strategy (E&AS), specifically Engineering Control Documents (ECD). The role leads the Technical Standards Modernisation programme, ensuring that engineering requirements are streamlined, fit for purpose, and enable the delivery of both financial and non-financial benefits across the current business plan.
The post holder will drive the reduction of unnecessary complexity and bureaucracy, champion the harmonisation of engineering standards across Transport for London (TfL), and promote innovation in technical requirements. This role provides strategic leadership to ensure standards support efficient delivery, operational performance, and long-term asset sustainability.
Key Accountabilities
- The purpose of the role is to lead the management of technical documents within the purview of Engineering & Asset Strategy (E&AS) including the Technical Standards Modernisation Work stream.
- The post holder will provide leadership, work to reduce bureaucracy, advocate modernisation and innovation enabling TFL to become an intelligent client.
- The post holder will lead ongoing implementation and adoption of new ways of working across E&AS (and value chain) and manage the procurement, delivery and integration of the Engineering Control Document (ECD) Digital Portal.
- Works closely with budget holders, Senior Leaders (i.e. Finance, Operations, Capital delivery etc.) and influences E&AS Head of Functions/ Delivery to obtain buy-in for new process for realising financial and non-financial benefits. Responsible for realising non-financial benefits and enabling cash-able financial benefits across TfL including Operations and Capital directorates.
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Knowledge
- Detailed knowledge use of technical control documents, Rail and Road transport regulation, health and safety legislation
- Detailed knowledge of Engineering asset life cycle, financial management principals, Procurement processes, business planning and benefits management
- Knowledge of digital document management tools, web technologies and data management systems.
- Knowledge of innovation trends in transport and infrastructure
Skills
- Involves interpreting regulatory requirements, resolving inconsistencies in documentation practices, and managing cross functional input.
- Strategic decision-making, resolving conflicts between disciplines and team, and balancing innovation with regulatory compliance.
- Change management, working with ambiguity and remaining agile in face of uncertainty
- Communication and influencing senior stakeholders, negotiation, managing safety and compliance in regulatory context
Experience
- Engineering management experience, commercial acumen with proven record of delivering safe and compliant, innovative solutions within transport operations.
- Demonstrable experience of stakeholder management at a senior level essential
- Demonstrable experience of providing direction in relation to the development of policy, data management and leading digital transformation and integration with existing systems
Engagement Manager – Licensing & Regulation
Job Description
Overview of project/role
At Transport for London (TfL), the Licensing and Regulation function plays a vital role in helping to keep London moving safely, fairly and efficiently. Operating within a complex and highly visible regulatory environment, the team works with a broad range of stakeholders, including transport operators, industry bodies, government organisations, enforcement partners and customer groups, to support passenger safety, promote compliance and shape the future of transport regulation across the capital. It is a dynamic and purpose-driven area where collaboration, communication and relationship-building are central to delivering positive outcomes for London and those who rely on its transport network every day.
As Engagement Manager – Licensing & Regulation, you’ll lead and support a team of engagement professionals, creating an environment where people can develop, perform at their best and deliver meaningful outcomes. You’ll build and strengthen relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, helping TfL navigate a complex regulatory landscape while maintaining trust, transparency and effective collaboration.
You’ll develop and deliver stakeholder engagement strategies and communications plans, ensuring key audiences are informed, engaged and supported. You’ll oversee the delivery of high-quality responses to correspondence, including Freedom of Information requests and Mayor’s Questions, provide briefing materials for senior leaders, and identify and manage stakeholder, political and reputational risks. You’ll also lead the team’s communications activity, including management of an X feed, oversight of extensive web content and production of a quarterly industry magazine. Working across a diverse stakeholder landscape, you’ll play a key role in supporting the implementation of regulatory changes, policy developments and licensing initiatives that help shape the future of transport regulation in London.
Key Accountabilities
- Lead and develop the team by providing effective leadership, coaching and performance management, ensuring the successful delivery of objectives and high-quality stakeholder communications
- Build strategic relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders, understanding their priorities, anticipating responses to key issues and ensuring their perspectives are represented within TfL
- Produce senior-level briefings and correspondence for the Commissioner and other senior leaders, delivering clear, accurate and insightful materials, often within demanding timescales
- Collaborate across TfL with teams including Communications and Corporate Affairs, Legal, Security, Policing and Enforcement, and Licensing & Regulation to deliver joined-up approaches to stakeholder engagement and communications
- Gather and share intelligence from stakeholder engagement activities and social media channels, ensuring relevant insights inform operational and compliance activity
- Manage sensitive issues and risks by ensuring politically sensitive communications are delivered effectively and on time, identifying and escalating emerging risks where appropriate
- Make informed strategic decisions that protect and enhance TfL’s reputation while supporting effective use of resources and achievement of organisational objectives
- Lead digital engagement activity by developing and overseeing stakeholder-facing social media and digital communication strategies that are effective, compliant and aligned with TfL priorities
- Monitor stakeholder sentiment through reporting and analysis of engagement and social media activity, identifying emerging themes, reputational risks and opportunities for action
- Represent the function at stakeholder and internal meetings, contributing insight, managing emerging issues and supporting the implementation of regulatory and policy changes
Skills, Knowledge & Experience
Skills
- Excellent leadership skills with a proven ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with people at all levels across the organisation and, importantly, to a critical and highly engaged public audience (Essential)
- Highly developed writing skills, able to produce concise, useful, plain English content to challenging deadlines (Essential)
- Ability to lead and motivate people at all levels and build effective working relationships (Essential)
- Proven influencing skills, with the ability to influence and negotiate at all levels across the organisation and outside (Essential)
- Ability to manage customer expectations and deliver service to meet those expectations (Essential)
- Ability to think of the medium- and long-term needs and dynamics of the organisation (Essential)
- An excellent problem-solver with effective prioritisation skills (Essential)
- Highly developed political awareness (Essential)
Knowledge
- Ability to demonstrate significant experience of running a communications team, project/programme management, stakeholder engagement planning and successful management of external stakeholder relationships (Essential)
- Knowledge of TfL’s policies, structures, strategies, relevant legislation and regulatory requirements (Essential)
- Strong knowledge of the political environment in which TfL operates (Essential)
- Excellent understanding of taxi and private hire issues (Desirable)
- Up to date knowledge of social media trends and techniques (Desirable)
Experience
- Experience of working in a highly sensitive and political environment, including the management of politically sensitive correspondence, stakeholder issues and reputational risk (Essential)
- Building excellent cross-team relationships (Essential)
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and able to interact with all levels of management (Essential)
- Excellent demonstrable IT skills PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook (Essential) and social media analytics packages (Desirable)
- Experience in overseeing the creation, publication and evaluation of website content, social media and stakeholder communication channels (Highly desirable)
- Experience of working closely with media or public information channels and evaluating their effectiveness (Highly desirable)
- Educated to degree level (Desirable)
- Up to date knowledge of social media trends and techniques (Desirable)