Project Manager

Turner & Townsend; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services firm delivering major water and infrastructure projects across the UK. We seek an Associate/Project Manager to lead delivery teams, ensuring safety, timeliness and budget adherence on a diverse portfolio spanning water and environmental resilience.

You will work with contractors, consultants and client stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes, with a strong emphasis on governance, risk management and value engineering.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering infrastructure projects and programmes in a client-facing environment.
• Strong governance, risk management and financial controls across the full project lifecycle.
• Familiarity with NEC contracts and successful delivery under NEC frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to deliver high-profile water/infrastructure projects on time and within budget.
• Coordinate with multidisciplinary teams, contractors, consultants and client stakeholders.
• Possibly involve alliance delivery, portfolio management and change within programmes.

Skills

Stakeholder management

NEC contracts

Project governance

Risk management

Leadership

Client-facing

Planning

Agile delivery

Education

Degree or equivalent

APM/ICE/CIWEM affiliation

Project management qualification

NEC ECC accreditation

H&S qualifications

Job 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 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.

Significant growth in the water sector means we are looking for a Project Manager to support the successful delivery of high-profile projects and programmes across the water sector. This is a nationwide role with regular travel requirements to client locations, including a minimum of three days per week either in client offices, or on site.

We have opportunities in a diverse portfolio of major water and infrastructure works, including strategic water supply programmes, environmental improvement programmes, and major asset upgrades. As an Associate Project Managers you will lead teams and manage safe, timely, high-quality delivery within budget. You will work with multidisciplinary teams, contractors, consultants and client stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes. Depending on the programme, roles may also involve alliance delivery, portfolio management and complex change.

A strong understanding of infrastructure delivery within a regulated environment is beneficial. You will be comfortable operating within a fast-paced delivery environment, with a good understanding of governance, a strong focus on safety and a collaborative one-team approach.

Project Managers at Turner & Townsend:

Project Managers at Turner & Townsend work on a broad range of projects and programmes in Water & Environmental Resilience and we are looking for individuals with the following skills, experience and attributes

• Demonstrable experience within the infrastructure, engineering, or construction industry, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects and programmes in a client-facing environment
• Experience of infrastructure project management across the project lifecycle including project management principles, delivery to client objectives, contract management, leadership and teamwork, financial management, project controls and health, safety, quality and environmental management
• Ability to support multiple interdependent projects and ensure delivery safely, on time, within budget and to the required quality standards
• Interpersonal and stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trusted relationships across client and partner organisations
• Demonstrable experience in the successful delivery of major programmes, managing complex stakeholder environments, multidisciplinary teams, significant budgets, and strategic project objectives
• Problem solving, analytical and numerical skills with the ability to understand complex challenges and support delivery of practical solutions
• Planning, communication and organisational skills including the ability to manage several workstreams simultaneously
• Strong working knowledge and practical experience of NEC contracts, including the administration, management and successful delivery of projects under NEC frameworks, with an ability to proactively manage risk, programme, compensation events and stakeholder relationships
• Demonstrates a strong understanding of operating within a consultancy environment, acting as a trusted advisor to clients while maintaining independence from both client and supplier organisations, and balancing multiple stakeholder needs to achieve successful project outcomes
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced agile delivery environment with a one-team approach
• Places safety at the heart of delivery

The role will require x3 days per week on the client site in Peterborough.

Qualifications

• Experience of utilities or water infrastructure project managementand delivery
• Experience of managing contractors, consultants and other advisers on infrastructure projectsincluding understanding of CDM requirements and expectations
• Familiarity with public sector organisations and regulated environments
• Experience of structured project governance and project lifecycle management
• Experience working across a range of delivery models with exposure to programme or portfolio delivery and change management activities

Qualifications

• Degree, Higher National Diploma or equivalent relevant professional experience
• Professional affiliation, qualification or near qualified status with the APM, ICE, CIWEM,or similar professional institution
• Project management qualification or certification or working towardsone (desirable)
• NEC ECC Accreditations or qualifications (desirable)
• IOSH or NEBOSH or equivalent H&S qualifications (desirable)

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.

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

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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.

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