Project Director – Infrastructure Project Management

Turner & Townsend; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in London seeks an experienced Project Director to lead diverse, high‑value infrastructure programmes. You will shape strategy, coordinate multi‑disciplinary teams, and partner with clients to deliver outcomes across public and private sectors.

You will base in our London office with a hybrid working pattern, mentoring future leaders and maintaining a strong focus on safety, quality and programme performance in a dynamic market.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multiple disciplines on high value infrastructure projects.
• Proven ability to set strategies, manage performance and drive delivery.
• Strong leadership, governance, safety and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of complex projects across multiple sectors from London base.
• Set strategy, manage commissions and ensure health, safety and wellbeing.
• Coach and mentor teams, build client relationships and drive performance.
• Foster inclusive teamwork and a one-business mindset across clients.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Stakeholder mgmt

CDM knowledge

Education

Management / Infrastructure degree

APM / ICE / MoP

PRINCE2 / MSP

CSCS

Tools

NEC Contracts

Job description

About Us

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

Job Description

We have exciting opportunities for Project 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, directly contribute to the growth of the business, 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 London and 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.

Project Directors at Turner & Townsend

Project Directors at Turner & Townsend work on business initiatives and lead delivery, at all lifecycle stages, on a broad range of projects and programmes across public and private sectors including Aviation, Highways, Rail, Environment, Utilities, and more. We are looking for individuals with the following skills, experience, and behavioural attributes:

• Significant experience managing multiple disciplines / teams / advisors / clients on high value / complex / politically challenging infrastructure projects/programmes across the lifecycle, ideally across sectors and clients. Proven and demonstrable success, and able to challenge / set strategy.
• Exceptional leadership skills, capable of setting high standards and managing performance against these, utilising people and resources efficiently to meet and exceed stakeholder expectations. Demonstrable success in ambiguous and challenging environments.
• Leads, sets commission strategies, 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. Can and has acted as duty holder.
• Shape the future vision and direction of the business and commissions, driving innovation and sustainability in parallel. Demonstrate your intimate understanding of stakeholder and business needs through early identification of future needs and challenges and set in motion strategies to address these.
• You continuously improve and transform our offering, pushing your comfort zone and encouraging your leaders to do the same. You take calculate risks to achieve this.
• Promoter of inclusive teamwork, building and fostering trust with empathy, diving a 'one business' collaboration mindset within T&T, across clients and extended across industry.
• Foster client and industry partnerships, developing and growing relationships to transform performance together. You learn from trends outside the industry and apply these appropriately.
• Able to use your leadership skills and influence to bring our purpose and vision to life, expanding your impact as you do and inspiring others about their future.
• Coach and mentor others and encourage development of people around you, and you have a thirst for learning; using this to develop best practice and define future needs. You spot, harness and nurture emerging potential, building a pipeline of future leaders, create resilience ensure succession planning is in place.
• 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. At the same time, you challenge inappropriate behaviour.
• Creative, curious and growth mindset, and acts as a role model.
• Promoter of inclusive environments, acting as a role model.

Beneficial Experience

• Experience of complex and multiple forms of procurement and managing NEC / other form contracts.
• Experience of managing contractors, consultants and other advisors on infrastructure projects and programmes in differing environments, ideally multiple sectors.
• Experience of highly regulated environments.
• 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.

Preferrable 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 / MoP / ChPP).
• NEC Accreditations or qualifications.
• CSCS / equivalent.
• Sustainability (e.g. Carbon Literacy).
• Safety qualifications / accreditations.
• 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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