Associate Director, Project Management, Rail

Turner & Townsend; London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working environment

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

A leading project management firm in London is seeking an Associate Director for Project Management in Rail. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in managing infrastructure projects and teams, leading health and safety initiatives, and promoting inclusive teamwork. This role offers an opportunity to influence project direction and develop team potentials in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing multiple disciplines on infrastructure projects.
• Proven success in project management principles and financial management.
• Experience administering NEC3 and NEC4 contracts in a named Project Manager role.
• Excellent leadership skills with a focus on health and safety.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
• Sustainability knowledge e.g. carbon literacy.
• Safety qualifications / accreditations.
• Soft skills / leadership certification.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple teams and clients on infrastructure projects.
• Lead health, safety, and wellbeing practices.
• Promote inclusive teamwork and client relationships.
• Coach and mentor team members for development.
• Champion health, safety and wellbeing; apply CDM appropriately across teams.
• Anticipate client challenges and deliver practical, innovative solutions.
• Foster inclusive teamwork and trusted advisor relationships with clients.
• Develop and nurture client and industry partnerships and expand impact.
• Coach, mentor and develop others; pursue continual learning.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Project management

Contract management

NEC3/NEC4

CDM/Health & safety

People development

Education

Degree in management/construction/infrastructure

APM/ICE affiliation

PM certification (APM/PRINCE2/MSP/ChPP)

CSCS or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Associate Director, Project Management, Rail

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsibilities

• Significant experience managing multiple disciplines / teams / advisors / clients on infrastructure projects/programmes across the lifecycle. Proven and demonstrable success, and able to challenge / set strategy.
• Significant experience of project management principles; contract management; financial management and project controls.
• Significant experience of administering NEC3 and NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contracts where you are currently engaged in a named Project Manager role, or have concluded a representative role in the last 12 months.
• 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.

Beneficial Experience

• Experience of complex and multiple forms of procurement and managing NEC / other form contracts.
• Experience of rail infrastructure project management.
• Experience of managing contractors, consultants and other advisors on infrastructure projects and programmes in differing environments, ideally multiple sectors.
• Experience of consultancy and/or client-side project management.
• Familiarity with public sector organisations, non-departmental or arm’s length bodies relevant to infrastructure.
• Familiarity with sustainability and application to projects / programmes.

Qualifications

• NEC3 or NEC4 Accredited Project Manager
• 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).
• CSCS / equivalent.
• Sustainability (e.g. Carbon Literacy).
• Safety qualifications / accreditations.
• Soft skills / leadership certification.

Additional Information

We provide a great place to work where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer and celebrates diversity. We encourage applications from all sectors of the community. Please visit www.turnerandtownsend.com for more information.

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