Associate Director - Project Management

Turner & Townsend Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Associate Director to lead and coordinate project activities in the North West. This exciting role involves driving exceptional delivery on major infrastructure projects, ensuring adherence to governance processes, and fostering a collaborative environment. You will play a key role in business development, identifying opportunities with existing clients while managing project finances and performance. Join a dynamic team that values your contributions and promotes a healthy work-life balance, making a positive impact in the infrastructure sector.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Opportunity for career development

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in managing major infrastructure projects is essential.
• Degree in a relevant discipline is required for this role.

Responsibilities

• Lead project activities ensuring communication and governance adherence.
• Drive exceptional delivery and manage project finances effectively.
• Identify new business opportunities and assist in bid documentation.

Skills

Project Management

Risk Management

Financial Management

Business Development

Change Control

Communication

Governance Processes

Education

Degree in Civil Engineering

Degree in Construction

Tools

FMS (Financial Management System)

Job description

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for an Associate Director to join our expanding Project Management Infrastructure business in the North West, and help to drive growth across the region.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

• To lead and co-ordinate project activities, ensuring good communication and adherence to governance processes.
• To understand, anticipate, inform and deliver great outcomes for our clients, every time, everywhere.
• To drive exceptional delivery, health & safety, commercial, risk management and quality performance on infrastructure projects throughout the project lifecycle.
• To be heavily involved in winning new work and developing a team of Project Managers.

Qualifications

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Project management discipline, to include:
• Helping to establish the overall success criteria for the project, including time, cost, technical and performance parameters.
• Identifying and ensuring that the appropriate line manager is aware of quality, safety, health and environment issues.
• Establishing effective project governance, processes and systems to be utilised throughout project.
• Project planning, including producing 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.
• 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.
• Preparing formal project progress and other reports.
• Taking a leading role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages.

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT TO INCLUDE:

• Identifying opportunities to develop new business with existing clients and reporting such opportunities to the appropriate line manager.
• Assisting in the production of bid documentation.
• Internal management accountabilities, to include: Knowledge management – Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each project is input into the Turner & Townsend internal database.
• Financial management – Ensuring prompt client invoicing and utilising FMS in order to monitor a project’s financial status.
• Process improvement – Identifying ways in which internal systems and processes can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience of working on major Infrastructure projects (Rail, Highways, Utilities, Aviation and Power).
• Preferred if the NEC accreditation is in place.
• Degree qualified in a relevant discipline (Civil Engineering/Construction).

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.