Senior Project Manager

Turner & Townsend; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Project Manager to deliver high‑profile water sector projects nationwide, with regular travel and client site presence. You will lead multidisciplinary teams, manage budgets and risks, and work within NEC contract frameworks to ensure safe, timely delivery.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in infrastructure delivery, strong stakeholder skills, and a track record of successful programme execution in regulated environments.

Qualifications

• Five years+ experience in infrastructure, engineering or construction with delivery of complex projects
• Experience in water infrastructure project lifecycle and governance
• Delivery of major programmes with multi-disciplinary teams and stakeholders
• Strong leadership and client-facing delivery skills
• Familiarity with NEC contracts and risk management practices

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to deliver water and utilities projects on time and within budget
• Manage client relationships, governance and reporting to stakeholders
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, contractors and consultants
• Ensure safe delivery with quality standards and regulatory compliance
• Contribute to portfolio delivery and change management when required

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Contract management

Leadership

Risk management

Education

Degree in management/engineering

APM/PRINCE2/MSP qualification

Tools

NEC contracts

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 Senior 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.

Senior Project Managers at Turner & Townsend:

Senior Project Managers at Turner & Townsend work on a broad range of projects and programmes in the Utilities sector, including clean and wastewater treatment facilities, mains installation and replacement, environmental improvement, asset management, developer service, Major Projects, Strategic Resource Options, and many more. We are looking for individuals with the following skills, experience and attributes:

• Minimum of 5 years' experience within the infrastructure, engineering, or construction industry, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects and programmes in a client-facing environment
• Significant experience of water infrastructure project management and/or programme management across the project lifecycle, including: project management principles; delivering to client objectives; contract management; leadership and teamwork; financial management and project controls
• Excellent leadership skills, with the ability to lead, manage and develop project teams on large projects or programmes, including in challenging or ambiguous environments
• Demonstrable experience in the successful delivery of major programmes, managing complex stakeholder environments, multidisciplinary teams, significant budgets, and strategic project objectives
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, with experience of managing multi-disciplinary teams, contractors and key interfaces, and building long-term trusted advisor relationships with clients
• Strong problem solving, analytical and numerical skills with an ability to quickly understand complex problems and shape these into workable solutions for deliveryin fast-paced, agile delivery environments
• Driven and resilient with the ability to work under pressure, motivate others and maintain focus on successful delivery
• 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
• Planning, communication and organisational skills, including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously and communicate effectively with senior client representatives
• Creative, curious and growth mindsetwith a collaborative one-team approach
• Ensures safety is at the heart of delivery, with accountability for delivering projects safely, on time, within budget and to required quality standards

Client Base - Peterborough and / or client site between 3 -5 days a week

Work in a Turner & Townsend Office – London, Birmingham, Nottingham

Qualifications

• Experience of water infrastructure project lifecycle management, governanceand delivery
• Experience of commercial management, procurement and managing NEC contracts; experience within a regulated infrastructure environment would be preferred
• Experience working within multi-disciplinary teams, managing contractors, consultants and other adviser
• Familiarity with public sector organisations, non-departmental or arm’s length bodies relevant to infrastructure
• Experience working across a range of delivery models with exposure to programme or portfolio delivery and change management activities

Qualifications:

• Degree or HND qualification in a management, construction or infrastructure-related subject, or equivalent experience
• Professional affiliation, qualification or near-qualified status with the APM or similar professional institution
• Project management certification (APM/PRINCE2/MSP)
• NEC PM Accreditations or qualifications(desirable)
• Health, Safety & Wellbeing related qualification (IOSH or NEBOSH 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.

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, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.

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, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review.