Project Manager / Senior Project Mana...

Turner & Townsend Plc.; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Defence Sector Project Manager, where your expertise will contribute to impactful projects in the defence sector. You will play a crucial role in managing large-scale capital investment projects, overseeing design teams, and ensuring successful delivery across multiple RIBA work stages. This dynamic position offers the chance to work on significant initiatives that enhance people's lives while promoting a flexible and inclusive work environment. If you are passionate about project management and ready to make a difference, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in managing large-scale defence projects.
• Experience in leading design management and resource management.

Responsibilities

• Support large-scale defence contracts and projects.
• Manage design teams and facilitate risk and change management.

Skills

Project Management

Client Care

Communication

Design Management

Procurement Acumen

Flexibility to Travel

Education

Technical Degree in Engineering or Earth Sciences

APM Associate or Equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office

Common Data Environments

Job description

• Full-time

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 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.

Our growing Nottingham Real Estate team is actively looking to engage with project management professionals to aid in the delivery of a broad range of defence schemes for our Derbyshire-based client.

A Defence Sector Project Manager would be expected to support large-scale contracts and projects within our overall Defence Sector Portfolio. Typically, these are large scale capital investment projects from a wider portfolio initiative supporting one of the 6 TLB holders. Key delivery responsibilities include day to day design team management at a delivery level supporting the overall capital project process both with day-to-day ownership of core project management tasks through all RIBA work stages. Successful performance is measured on the core parameters of any project whilst facilitating programme, risk, and change management.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of successfully supporting components of large-scale defence projects across multiple RIBA work stages, either as a consultant or in a client organisation.
• Proven track record of successfully leading components of large/small scale design management or post contract experience.
• Experience of supporting design teams / technical disciplines or general resource management.
• SC level Security Clearance.
• Very good client care and communication.
• Flexibility / willingness to travel with accompanying overnight stays.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and able to use and manage Common Data Environments.
• APM associate or equivalent.
• Technical Degree in broader Engineering disciplines or wider Earth Sciences.
• Demonstrable experience of procurement and wider commercial acumen (ideally supporting public sector business cases and framework style single or two stage tendering).
• Some experience using NEC3/4 PSC/ECC contracts (both pre- and post-contract).

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.