Assistant Project Manager/ Project Manager - Corporate Occupier

Turner & Townsend; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Sydney, Australia, is seeking a Project Manager to lead client-facing commissions and ensure delivery on time and budget. You will partner with design teams, contractors, and clients to set success criteria and governance across projects.

Responsibilities include planning, KPI-driven performance improvement, change control, and effective reporting. A background in corporate occupier fit-out projects and fluency with Australian contracts is preferred.

Qualifications

• 1-5 years’ experience in client-side project management, ideally in corporate occupier fit-out.
• Knowledge of Australian construction contracts and AFLs is preferred.
• Experience coordinating design teams, consultants and clients across complex projects.
• Proficiency with KPI-driven performance management and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Support/lead project management commissions with end-to-end service delivery.
• Act as day-to-day client interface to meet objectives within time/cost/quality targets.
• Provide strategic advice at project conception and establish success criteria.
• Plan and manage quality, safety, health and environment issues.
• Establish governance, processes and systems for the project and oversee detailed planning.
• Advise on procurement, lead cross-functional teams, monitor finances and change control.
• Maintain project information flow and produce formal progress reports.

Skills

Client-side PM

KPI management

Cross-functional leadership

MS Project

Tools

Microsoft Project

Job description

• Full-time

Company Description

Who is Turner & Townsend?

All over the world people are using buildings, infrastructure, and assets we helped to deliver. It could be the hospital they work in, the railway they travel on every day, the fuel that powers their car or the data centre they depend on at work. For more than 75 years we’ve been helping to deliver transformational programmes across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors, making a difference to people’s lives and ensuring a return on investment for our clients and their investors.

Our purpose:

Transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world.

The world is changing and we have a responsibility to support that change, helping drive it and be part of it. Through the commitment, capability and care our team brings, we build trust between clients, suppliers, governments and society. Delivering better outcomes that have a positive impact on the world around us. We work smarter to face the challenges of the future; bringing the clarity that helps teams realise their full potential across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. It’s how we’ve made the difference for more than 75 years.

Our values:

Love a challenge: We love a challenge and we work hard to make change happen and see things through. We don’t stand still, challenging ourselves and others to do better every day. And we are trusted to do the right thing, raising standards all the time.

Stronger together: We’re stronger together by connecting people in diverse teams, so that we can all collaborate to deliver our best work. We focus on what matters and use our influence to build a better world for everyone.

Bring out the best in everyone: We bring out the best in everyone. We help each other to make the most of our potential, always learning from our experience. We treat each other with care and respect and make time to give everyone a voice.

Job Description

• To support/ lead Project Management Commissions, taking responsibility for end to end service delivery, often with respect to large or complex projects.
• To act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met and that projects are delivered to time and cost targets and the appropriate quality standards.
• Advising at a strategic level at the project conception stage, including providing advice on the different approaches that can be adopted in order to successfully achieve the client’s overall objectives.
• Leading the establishment of the overall success criteria for the project, including time, cost, technical and performance parameters.
• Planning for and the ongoing management of quality, safety, health and environment issues.
• Establishing effective project governance, processes and systems to be utilised throughout project.
• Project planning, including ensuring the production of the detailed project plan.
• Advising upon the procurement of resources.
• Leading and facilitating the overall cross-functional project team.
• Monitoring and applying performance management techniques, including the use of KPI’s to improve project performance.
• Managing the change control process.
• Monitoring and advising upon project finances.
• Managing the flow of project information between the team and the client, through regular meetings and written communications.
• Ensuring the production of formal project progress and other reports.
• Taking a leading role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages.

Qualifications

• To have 1-5 years’ experience in client-side project management, some of which would have been in the corporate occupier (‘fit-out’) sector.
• Existing relationships in the corporate occupier sector with design consultants, builders and clients will be favorable.
• To act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met and that projects are delivered to time and cost targets and the appropriate quality standards.
• Planning for and the ongoing management of quality, safety, health and environment issues.
• Establishing effective project governance, processes and systems to be utilised throughout project.
• Project planning, including production of the detailed project plan.
• Monitoring and applying performance management techniques, including the use of KPI’s to improve project performance.Managing the change control process andproject finances.
• Managing the flow of project information between the team and the client, through regular meetings and written communications.
• Ensuring the production of formal project progress and other reports.
• Knowledge and understanding of Australian construction contracts
• Knowledge and understanding of Agreements for Lease (AFL’s).
• Ability to manage and support a design team
• Proficient in Microsoft Project

Additional Information

• Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
• We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

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