Associate Director – Project Management - Energy Infrastructure

Turner & Townsend; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in Manchester is seeking Associate Directors to lead complex energy and natural resources programmes. You will oversee multi-disciplinary teams, manage client relationships, and shape delivery across infrastructure and low carbon initiatives.

This role requires proven leadership, strong governance, and a commitment to safety. You will mentor colleagues, champion collaboration, and drive successful outcomes for clients and communities.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing multiple disciplines/teams/advisors/clients on infrastructure or energy projects.
• Proven leadership and ability to set and monitor performance against standards.
• Strong health, safety, and wellbeing leadership with CDM understanding.
• Ability to anticipate client challenges and provide solutions.
• Proven ability to build trusted advisor relationships with clients.
• Experience across low carbon, clean energy and transmission sectors.
• Experience with procurement and contract management (NEC or other).

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-disciplinary teams and manage client relationships across projects.
• Set strategy and monitor performance against standards.
• Promote inclusive teamwork and trust across TT and clients.
• Oversee health and safety, applying CDM practices.
• Mentor and develop junior staff.
• Support business initiatives across energy projects.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

CDM knowledge

Strategic thinking

Mentoring/coaching

Client relationships

Team collaboration

Education

Degree in management/construction/infrastructure

APM/ICE/equivalent membership

Project management certification (APM/PRINCE2/MSP/ChPP)

NEC Accreditations

Job description

• Full-time
• Department: Energy and natural resources

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people's lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

We have exciting opportunities for Associate Directors to join our expanding team. Following significant growth and ongoing delivery success with our clients, we are looking for high calibre leaders to support our clients deliver a wide range of high-profile projects across Infrastructure, to be a leader in the industry and help mentor and develop the future generation of Project Managers. We want you to join us and to transform together.

As a member of our growing team, you would be working to help us make a difference with our clients in delivering a diverse range of highly complex projects and programmes. You would be based in our Manchester office and likely spend your time with colleagues and client teams based across the North West region. There is ample opportunity to thrive, own your career and reach your potential, from within an inclusive, engaging, and supportive culture. The only boundary is your imagination.

Associate Directors at Turner & Townsend:

Associate Directors at Turner & Townsend work on business initiatives and a broad range of projects and programmes across the low carbon, clean energy and transmission distribution sectors; including innovative small modular reactors, battery energy storage, Pioneering Carbon Capture schemes, part of the Great Grid Upgrade, among many others.. We are looking for individuals with the following skills, experience, and behavioural attributes:

• Significant experience managing multiple disciplines / teams / advisors / clients on infrastructure or energy projects/programmes across the lifecycle, ideally across sectors and clients. Proven and demonstrable success, and able to challenge / set strategy.
• Excellent leadership skills, capable of setting high standards and managing performance against these, utilising people and resources efficiently to meet and exceed stakeholder expectations. Able to succeed in ambiguous and challenging environments.
• Leads and is accountable for the health, safety, and wellbeing of those within your sphere of responsibility. Has a practical understanding of CDM and is able to apply this appropriately across teams.
• Ability to anticipate client challenges and determine applicable solutions, innovating as necessary, through your depth of understanding of stakeholder needs. Can do this sustainably.
• Promoter of inclusive teamwork, building and fostering trust with empathy, diving a 'one business' collaboration mindset within T&T and across clients.
• Foster client and industry partnerships, developing and growing relationships.
• Able to use your leadership skills and influence to bring our purpose and vision to life, expanding your impact as you do.
• Coach and mentor others and encourage development of people around you, and you have a thirst for learning; using this to develop best practice. You spot, harness and nurture emerging potential.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, comfortable working with a diverse range of personalities across clients and partner organisations and able to build long-term trusted advisor relationships with our clients.
• Creative, curious and growth mindset, and acts as a role model.
• Promoter of inclusive environments, acting as a role model.

Qualifications

Beneficial Experience:

• Experience of complex and multiple forms of procurement and managing NEC / other form contracts.
• Experience of managing contractors, consultants and other advisors on infrastructure and energy projects and programmes in differing environments, ideally multiple sectors.
• Experience of consultancy and/or client-side project management.
• Degree level qualification in a management, construction or infrastructure related subject, or equivalent experience.
• Professional affiliation with the APM, ICE, or an equivalent professional institution.
• Project management certification (e.g. APM / PRINCE2 / MSP / ChPP).
• NEC Accreditations or qualifications.

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.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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