NEC4 ECC Project Manager (Associate Director) - Infrastructure

TURNER & TOWNSEND; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global professional services company is seeking an Associate Director accredited in NEC3/NEC4 to lead high-profile infrastructure projects. The ideal candidate possesses excellent leadership skills, extensive experience in managing diverse teams, and a strong background in project management. Responsibilities include mentoring junior project managers and ensuring health and safety compliance across projects. This position offers opportunities for professional growth within a supportive and inclusive culture, with a hybrid working model available.

Benefits

Hybrid working model

Professional development opportunities

Inclusive workplace culture

Qualifications

• NEC3 or NEC4 Accredited Project Manager is essential.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills are necessary.
• Experience managing multiple disciplines on infrastructure projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage high-profile projects across infrastructure.
• Mentor and develop junior project managers.
• Ensure health and safety standards are upheld in projects.

Skills

Leadership skills

Stakeholder management

Teamwork

Innovation

Communication

Education

Degree in management, construction or infrastructure

NEC3 or NEC4 Accreditation

Tools

Project management software

Job description

Company Description

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 to deliver outcomes that improve people’s lives. 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, and work closely with them to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offerings worldwide.

Job Description

Due to significant growth and ongoing delivery success with our clients, we are looking for Associate Directors who are NEC3 and NEC4 accredited Project Managers to join our expanding team. We seek high‑calibre leaders to support our clients in delivering a wide range of high‑profile projects across infrastructure, to be an industry leader and help mentor the next generation of Project Managers.

As a member of our growing team, you would work in our London office and likely spend time with colleagues and client teams across the South‑East region. 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. Dependent on client requirements, most roles support a hybrid working pattern.

Key Skills, Experience & 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.
• 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 and 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

NEC3 or NEC4 Accredited Project Manager is essential.

Beneficial Experience

• Experience of complex and multiple forms of procurement and managing NEC contracts.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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

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

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Equal Opportunity

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. This is also reflected in our anti‑matching fee policy and stance on unsolicited CVs.

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time.

Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e‑mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, a formal written agreement must be in place and the agency must be invited by the Recruitment Team to submit candidates for review.

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