We have exciting opportunities for Associate Directors to join our expanding team. Following significant growth and ongoing delivery success with our clients, we are looking for high calibre leaders to support our clients in delivering a wide range of high‑profile projects across Infrastructure, to be a leader in the industry and help mentor and develop the future generation of Project Managers. We want you to join us and to transform together.
As a member of our growing team, you would be working to help us make a difference with our clients in delivering a diverse range of highly complex projects and programmes. You would be based in our Manchester office and with regular travel to clients across the North West. There is ample opportunity to thrive, own your career and reach your potential, from within an inclusive, engaging, and supportive culture. The only boundary is your imagination.
Associate Directors at Turner & Townsend:
Associate Directors at Turner & Townsend work on business initiatives and a broad range of projects and programmes across the low carbon, clean energy and transmission distribution sectors; including innovative small modular reactors, battery energy storage, pioneering carbon capture schemes, part of the Great Grid Upgrade, among many others. We are looking for individuals with the following skills, experience, and behavioural attributes:
* Significant experience managing multiple disciplines / teams / advisors / clients on infrastructure or energy 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. Can do this sustainably.
* Promoter of inclusive teamwork, building and fostering trust with empathy, diving 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.
Qualifications
* Beneficial Experience:
o Experience of complex and multiple forms of procurement and managing NEC / other form contracts.
o Experience of managing contractors, consultants and other advisors on infrastructure and energy projects and programmes in differing environments, ideally multiple sectors.
o Experience of consultancy and/or client‑side project management.
* Preferable qualifications:
o Degree level qualification in a management, construction or infrastructure related subject, or equivalent experience.
o Professional affiliation with the APM, ICE, or an equivalent professional institution.
o Project management certification (e.g. APM / PRINCE2 / MSP / ChPP).
o NEC Accreditations or qualifications.
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.
Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/
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Associate Director Project Management • Warrington, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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