Jim Crawford was phase one managing director for five years
Crossrail has brought in the former boss of HS2 phase one to bolster the leadership team as the 拢18.4bn project moves into the testing phase.
Jim Crawford was managing director of the first phase of HS2 from 2014 until last June.
Crawford (pictured) will fill a newly created role at Crossrail of chief programme officer.
He will be in charge of the programme from now through to trial running, due to start by the autumn, and on to the full opening of the line, which runs from Shenfield in the east and Reading in the west. The entire line is due to open by May 2022.
Before joining HS2, Crawford worked at Network Rail, where he was Thameslink major programme director.
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Crawford鈥檚 recruitment comes at the same time Crossrail鈥檚 programme controls director Mark Cooper has been moved into a new role, chief projects officer.
He will oversee completion of the remaining works ahead of the start of trial running.
Both Crawford and Cooper will report to Crossrail chief executive Mark Wild.
The management rejig comes a day after Wild promised to 鈥渄o this job without a bonus鈥� following criticism over multimillion-pound incentives handed to his predecessors.
Wild told The Sunday Telegraph his predecessors 鈥渄id not understand or have an estimate of the scale of the task鈥�.
He said while he was in line to receive a bonus in the future he did 鈥渘ot want any entitlement until I deliver something 鈥� which is an operational railway鈥�.
The Public Accounts Committee laid into Crossrail鈥檚 bonus culture last summer singling out the perks given to former chief executive Andrew Wolstenholme who was handed bonuses totalling more than 拢640,000 between 2015 and 2017.
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