Associate Director, Project Management - Water/Utilities

Turner & Townsend; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in London is seeking an Associate Director to lead and shape major infrastructure programmes. You will guide cross-functional teams, align with client strategies and drive delivery across complex projects.

Hybrid working is offered to balance on-site leadership with collaboration across locations. The role requires extensive experience in infrastructure project management, a strong safety culture, and a track record mentoring others.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading multi-disciplinary teams on infrastructure projects/programmes.
• Strong leadership with ability to set standards and manage performance.
• Practical understanding of CDM and applying it across teams.
• Ability to anticipate client challenges and provide sustainable solutions.
• Proven ability to build trusted client relationships and promote collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage multiple disciplines, teams, and client relationships across projects.
• Ensure health, safety and wellbeing for teams; apply CDM principles.
• Develop and mentor junior staff; promote best practices across the business.
• Drive collaboration across internal and external stakeholders to deliver outcomes.
• Maintain high standards of governance, risk management and delivery.

Skills

Leadership

CDM awareness

Stakeholder management

People development

Strategic thinking

Education

Management/infrastructure degree

APM/Prince2/ MSP/ ChPP cert.

NEC/NEBOSH awareness

Job description

Job Description

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 London office and likely spend your time with colleagues and client teams based across the South-East region. Dependant on client requirements, the majority of our roles support a hybrid working pattern. In return 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 Utilities sector, including clean and waste water treatment facilities, mains installation and replacement, environmental improvement, asset management, developer services, Major Projects, Strategic Resource Options and many more. We are looking for individuals with the following skills, experience, and behavioural attributes:

• Significant experience managing multiple disciplines / teams / advisors / clients on infrastructure 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 utilities/water infrastructure project and / or programme management, including end to end lifecycle experience or specialism in development or delivery stages.
• Experience of complex and multiple forms of procurement and managing NEC / other form contracts.
• High level of commercial management including complex commercial arrangements
• Experience of building and leading multi-disciplinary teams, 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.
• Delivery within complex operational environments
• Experience of working and reporting in complex stakeholder and regulatory environments

Preferrable qualifications

• Degree level qualification in a management, construction or infrastructure related subject, or equivalent experience.
• Chartered status with the APM, ICE, or an equivalent professional institution.
• Project management certification (e.g. APM / PRINCE2 / MSP / ChPP).
• NEC Accreditations or qualifications.
• CSCS / equivalent.
• NEBOSH or equivalent H&S qualifications
• CDM awareness
• Sustainability (e.g. Carbon Literacy).
• Soft skills / leadership certification.

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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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

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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.