Associate Directors

Turner Townsend; Warrington; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner Townsend is seeking an Associate Director to lead multi-disciplinary teams on high-profile infrastructure and energy programmes. The role focuses on strategy, client advisory, and delivery across North West projects from our Manchester office with regular client travel.

You will drive health and safety, mentor teams, and shape procurement approaches, while building trusted relationships with clients and partners across the sector.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing multiple disciplines/teams/advisors/clients on infrastructure or energy projects across the lifecycle.
• Excellent leadership skills with ability to set high standards and manage performance.
• Practical CDM knowledge and applying it across teams.
• Ability to anticipate client challenges and provide solutions with a sustainable approach.
• Experience of managing contractors, consultants and other advisors on infrastructure/energy projects.
• 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 (APM / PRINCE2 / MSP / ChPP).
• NEC Accreditations or qualifications.

Responsibilities

• Lead and be accountable for the health, safety, and wellbeing of your sphere of responsibility.
• Coach and mentor others to develop best practice and nurture potential.
• Develop and grow client and industry partnerships through a 'one business' mindset.
• Manage procurement and NEC/other contracts with contractors and advisors.
• Build long-term trusted advisor relationships with clients and partner organisations.
• Provide innovative solutions by understanding stakeholder needs and project constraints.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Programme management

Multi-disciplinary teams

Client relationship

Mentoring / coaching

Growth mindset

CDM knowledge

Education

Degree in management, construction or infrastructure

Tools

APM certification

PRINCE2

MSP

ChPP

NEC accreditation

Job description

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..

• 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., 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.

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 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 with regular travel to clients across the North West. 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.

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.