Digital Project Manager jobs in United Kingdom

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Company Description

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

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.

Job Description

Turner & Townsend is currently recruiting for Project Managers to join our Life Science Real Estate.

With a market leading client base in and around central London and the opportunity to join immediate commissions, this is an exciting time to join the business unit and grow a career with Turner & Townsend.

This role is client facing, working within a professional and ambitious team, where you will receive excellent support. We have brought our brightest minds together to respond to our client’s Project and Programme management objectives.

Responsibilities

• Develop project plans including programmes, budgets and co-ordinate scheduling and milestones to ensure projects remain on track.
• Oversee the project budget, including cost estimation, reviewing and approval of applications for payments from both contractors and designers.
• Lead and supervise the project team, including contractors, architects, engineers and subcontractors. Build relationships and foster a collaborative and productive work environment.
• Identify potential project risks, issues and dependencies including safety, legal, financial and environmental which could have the impact to affect project budget and delivery timelines. Management of the scoring of risks and outlining suitable mitigations and track these to ensure risks and issues do not materialise.
• Act as the primary contact for clients, stakeholders and external contractors being able to provide regular updates on project progress and any concerns to be highlighted.
• Manage the procurement process for designers and principal contractors for projects ranging in size and scale.
• Management of contracts with contractors, overseeing the contract negotiations, execution and enforcement ensuring that all terms and conditions are met by the parties involved.
• Oversea the management of construction on site, commissioning and validation along with project close out and the capitalisation process.
• Complete monthly reporting at a project level into programme directors.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in one of the following fields: Engineering, Project management or Construction Management
• Ideally NEC accredited Project Manager
• Member of a chartered institute e.g., RICS or happy to work towards
• Good knowledge of construction industry themes such as MMC, Net Zero Carbon and Digital agenda
• Good knowledge of the full project lifecycle and business case approvals process
• Ideally experience of working on science based projects in complex live environments.

What experience we are looking for:

• Detailed knowledge of and experience in the delivery of life sciences projects circa 10 years.
• Experience of strategic estate development and capital project planning for business case redaction is desirable.
• Detailed experience of NEC contract administration is desirable
• Demonstrable experience in client-facing roles at all levels (including Directors of Estates/Strategy and Planning/Capital Development) to develop stakeholder relationships and drive project progression.

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 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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It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a 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:

Twitter

Instagram

LinkedIn

It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a 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.