Project Director – Infrastructure Project Management

Turner and Townsend; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in infrastructure project management seeks a Project Director to lead high-profile projects across public and private sectors. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in managing complex infrastructure deliveries and be passionate about fostering inclusive teamwork. This role offers opportunities for hybrid working and personal career development in an engaging culture that thrives on innovative solutions and sustainability.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Opportunities for career development

Inclusive and supportive culture

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing multiple stages of complex infrastructure projects.
• Proven success in leadership and driving strategy in ambiguous environments.
• Experience in advisory roles in public and private sector projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery on a broad range of projects and programmes.
• Mentor and develop future leaders within the organization.
• Shape the vision and direction of the business and commissions.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder Management

Project Management

Team Management

Risk Management

Communication

Sustainability Knowledge

Education

Degree in Management, Construction or Infrastructure related subject

Project Management Certification (e.g. APM, PRINCE2)

Professional affiliation with APM, ICE

Job description

Project Director – Infrastructure Project Management

• Full-time
• Department: Infrastructure

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

For 75 years we have been leading the delivery of major transformational programmes. Our success at realising outcomes for clients has resulted in significant growth.Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious Net Zero programmes from over 118 offices worldwide.

Further to this success we are now facing a new wave of growth to achieve our ambitious 2025 vision. To achieve this, we need great people who are passionate about both delivering great outcomes to our clients and contributing to our future vision. This is made entirely possible through our entrepreneurial culture, allowing employees of all levels to directly influence the business and to own their career.

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.

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.
• 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.

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.

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

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:

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 ofTurner & Townsend and arenot subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team,to submit candidates for review.

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

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:

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 ofTurner & Townsend and arenot subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team,to submit candidates for review.

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

Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects:

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 ofTurner & Townsend and arenot subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team,to submit candidates for review.