Associate Director - Rail

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Company Description

At Turner & Townsend we're passionate about making the difference - we are committed to delivering Sustainable Net Zero outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

The world is changing, and we have a responsibility to support that change, helping drive it and be part of it.

Through the commitment, capability and care our team brings, we build trust between clients, suppliers, governments, and society. Delivering better outcomes that have a positive impact on the world around us.

We work smarter to face the challenges of the future; bringing the clarity that helps teams realise their full potential across the real estate, infrastructure, and natural resources sectors.

It's how we've made the difference for 75 years. Transforming performance for a green, inclusive and productive world.

Job Description

Due to existing successes and future growth ambitions, we are looking for a high-calibre Associate Director to support client delivery and future growth in the rail sector. As a senior member of our growing team, you would be working to help us make a difference with our clients in delivering rail projects and drive business growth in the rail sector. You would be based in either our Dublin or Belfast office and likely spend your time with colleagues and client teams across the island. 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. 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.
• 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.

Experience:

• 10+ years' experience in the rail sector
• Experience of building strong client relationships and leading business development activities
• Experience building and leading teams
• Experience of end-to-end delivery of rail infrastructure projects, including infrastructure upgrades, renewals, electrification, and signaling, telecoms and controls
• Experience of developing delivery plans and strategies associated with infrastructure programmes
• Experience of consultancy or client-side project management
• Familiarity with public sector organisations, non-departmental or arm's length bodies relevant to infrastructure in Ireland

Qualifications

• Degree in a management, construction or infrastructure related subject, or equivalent experience
• Professional affiliation, qualification status with the APM, IEI, ICE, or similar professional institution

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/