Associate Director - Quantum

Turner & Townsend; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services company in Edinburgh seeks an Associate Director with over 10 years of experience in the construction industry. The role involves delivering expert witness services and strategic recovery for distressed projects. Candidates should have a relevant degree and strong analytical skills, along with a forensic mindset. The position offers the opportunity to mentor and grow within an experienced team, promoting a healthy and flexible work environment.

Benefits

Healthy work-life balance

Flexible working environment

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Over 10 years of relevant construction and engineering experience.
• Experience leading claims up or down the supply chain.
• Ability to articulate Client requirements effectively.

Responsibilities

• Assist in expert quantum reports for dispute resolution.
• Lead development of commercial strategies for distressed projects.
• Draft detailed expert witness reports for disputes.

Skills

Forensic mindset

Strong knowledge of construction industry

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Understanding of construction contracts

Education

Construction-related degree or legal qualification

Tools

BCIS

Cost-X

CEMAR

Job description

Overview

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.

Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Role and Responsibilities

You will be involved in delivering:

• our Expert Witness services, by assisting our quantum experts in delivering expert quantum reports for adjudication, litigation, and other forms of dispute resolution; and
• our Recovery service by assisting our contract and commercial specialists in providing strategic advice to clients whose project and major programmes are in commercial distress.

Successful applicants will work in a team undertaking detailed analysis of construction projects in the UK and internationally. We are looking for an ambitious and driven individual seeking to join an experienced team of construction experts with a strong brand across our marketplace.

Turner & Townsend has an exciting portfolio of works across our Recovery and Expert Witness services and are looking to grow in order to successfully meet our Client’s needs.

We are looking for an Associate Director who is experienced in supporting on matters of quantum and/or establishing themselves as an expert in their own right to supplement our leading team of experts across both our Recovery and Expert Witness teams. The successful individual will have the opportunity to establish their own path to becoming a leading Expert in their own right through our dedicated mentoring programme, the opportunity to lead on our strategic objectives and to grow our market presence with direct links to our leadership team in the UK.

The work will need to be a high standard that can withstand scrutiny by other parties. The successful applicant will:

• require a forensic and exploratory mindset
• have a strong knowledge of the construction industry
• need an understanding of construction contracts and the law
• value transparency and collaboration
• be able to work independently where required and agile to adapting to the working method of others

Qualifications

• Relevant construction and engineering industry experience (in the region of) +10yrs
• A construction-related degree qualification and/or legal qualification
• Experience in leading the pursuit of claims up or down the supply-chain, leading to successful negotiated resolution of the same
• Ability to understand and articulate Client requirements and their desired outcomes
• Critically analyse project and major programme performance, identifying root cause of those elements in distress
• Lead development of a contract and commercial strategy to successfully recover performance of distressed project or major programmes in line with Client outcomes
• Effective stakeholder management with the Client and at all levels of the supply-chain, chairing meetings with the Client and other advisors as necessary
• Review and assess contemporaneous project records to establish quantum associated with claims and/or disputes
• Working knowledge of relevant applications and technologies in the quantity surveying, commercial management industry, for example BCIS, Cost-X, CEMAR
• Critically analyse the strengths and weaknesses of Client claims and/or disputes, providing strategic advice on (i) proceeding; and (ii) amending the basis of claim
• Assist clients, lawyers and counsel in developing its position where required
• Lead the drafting of detailed expert witness reports for use in formal dispute resolution proceedings
• Staying abreast of developments within own technical area of expertise
• Providing direction to staff working with you on specific tasks
• Supporting the interface with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
• Acting as an ambassador championing the Contract Services delivered by Turner & Townsend in the industry

Next Steps

Our recruitment is via our dedicated portal on Smart Recruiters, please follow the process to register your interest and from there we are happy to have an informal chat with our service leads if you would like to find out further background before moving forward or equally we can move forward to engage our recruitment team.

Additional Information

Our people share our Purpose and Values. Turner & Townsend provides a great place to work, where everyone can make change happen and influence a better world.

We champion our people to succeed in both 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. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

If this sounds like a challenge you’d like to hear more about, please submit an application for our recruitment team to review.

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

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