Associate Director – Infrastructure P...

Associate 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.

Associate Directors at Turner & Townsend:

Associate Directors at Turner & Townsend work on business initiatives and 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 infrastructure projects/programmes across the lifecycle, ideally across sectors and clients. Proven and demonstrable success, and able to challenge / set strategy.
• Excellent leadership skills, capable of setting high standards and managing performance against these, utilising people and resources efficiently to meet and exceed stakeholder expectations. Able to succeed in ambiguous and challenging environments.
• Leads 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.
• Ability to anticipate client challenges and determine applicable solutions, innovating as necessary, through your depth of understanding of stakeholder needs.
• Promoter of inclusive teamwork, building and fostering trust with empathy, driving a ‘one business’ collaboration mindset within T&T and across clients.
• Foster client and industry partnerships, developing and growing relationships.
• Able to use your leadership skills and influence to bring our purpose and vision to life, expanding your impact as you do.
• Coach and mentor others and encourage development of people around you, and you have a thirst for learning; using this to develop best practice. You spot, harness and nurture emerging potential.
• 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.
• 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 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 / ChPP).
• NEC Accreditations or qualifications.
• CSCS / equivalent.
• Sustainability (e.g. Carbon Literacy).
• Safety qualifications / accreditations.
• Soft skills / leadership certification.

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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