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.
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Job Description
At Turner & Townsend, our Real Estate Digital team advise on best-fit, future-proofed technology hardware, software, network, IoT solutions and smart building systems – delivering cost effective integrated approaches. And we can provide specialist services such as data centre moves and migration, IT project management and IT solution assurance
We typically sit between our clients and the constructions teams to drive the development and integration of:
1. Fibre & Copper structured cabling solutions
2. Intelligent building systems
3. Wireless networking,
4. Audio video and collaboration technologies
5. IoT and 5G
6. End user technologies
7. Data centres
8. Comms room development
Our Real Estate Digital team have a vacancy for an IT Project Manager to work with clients in the built environment, where you would be working to deliver projects that include developing and implementing organisational wide digital strategies and advanced disruptive technologies into the built environment. This role is open to professionals of varying experience aligned to the verb descriptors below, applied to the following responsibilities.
9. Consultant – Support
10. Senior Consultant – Manage
11. Principal Consultant – Lead
Main responsibilities
We are always on the lookout for bright, talented and motivated IT Project Manager with technical competencies to work on large scale, complex technology projects in the built environment.
12. As an IT Project Manager you will provide support on major IT Programme and Commercial Management Commissions, taking responsibility for all aspects of technology service delivery. You will ensure client objectives are met and that projects are delivered on schedule, within cost targets and meet the appropriate quality standards.
13. You will need to be able to work in partnership with our clients to advise on how technology can help overcome business challenges. You will be expected to push the boundaries of technology and stretch the imagination of our clients by developing with them, the best in class, most flexible and future proofed solutions. You can then articulate the solution to audiences of both business and technical decision makers.
14. You will work on commissions of varying sizes and complexity, engage with stakeholders to manage design and coordination within the construction programme.
15. You will embed yourself within the design team to drive the technology vision, provide strategy development, specification creation, cost models development, heat output calculations and more. Most of our projects require technology delivery to be aligned to RIBA plan of work.
16. You will have a good understanding of the commercial property sector, understanding their pain points and areas for improvements, with a focus on their user experience.
Key accountabilities to include:
17. Supporting clients with vision and strategy development
18. Taking a leading role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
19. Helping to establish the overall success criteria for the programme, including all projects, time, cost, technical and performance parameters
20. Identifying and ensuring that the appropriate stakeholders are aware of quality, safety, health and environment issues
21. Establishing effective project governance, processes and systems to be utilised throughout project
22. Project planning, including producing the detailed project plan
23. Leading and facilitating the overall cross-functional project teams
24. Managing the flow of project information between the team and the client, through regular meetings and written communications
25. Managing the IT change control process
26. Monitoring and advising upon project finances
27. Preparing formal project progress and other reports
28. Have a working understanding of IT procurement and process in a construction/ refurbishment environment
29. Capable of schedule management of IT and IT related installations including AV, voice, cabling and building systems.
30. New business sales – identify and qualify opportunities to assist clients with their technology consultancy need
Qualifications
Key Requirements
Essential
31. Proven experience working as a project manager delivering integrated technology solutions
32. Proven ability to work across a variety of technical disciplines (networking, infrastructure, third-party applications) and to have amassed a comprehensive understanding of IT functions.
33. Ability to quickly master technical concepts, processes, details, and skills, and be able to effectively communicate them to a wide variety of audience
34. Resourceful problem-solver, leveraging internal and partner resources where and when needed to do what’s right for the customer and for the organization
35. Strong understanding of APM Body of Knowledge
36. Good stakeholder management, self-motivated, with strong verbal, written, and presentation skills
37. Ability to engage stakeholders and build relationships
38. One or more of the below qualification/certifications:
39. APM Project Management qualification
40. Agile Project Management Practitioner qualification
41. Prince2 Project Management
Desirable
42. Experience delivering SMART buildings, IoT systems, and OT Networks
43. Understanding of technical capabilities (Network, Fibre, SMART buildings, IT, OT)
44. Experience writing bid responses and presenting ideas in interview
45. Knowledge and experience of working with/ within the commercial property sector
46. Knowledge of RIBA plan of work
47. Security Cleared
Behavioural Competencies
We operate a behavioural framework that sets out what we expect from every Turner & Townsend employee – simple statements, with different detail at each role level, that reflect our core values. To us they are more than just words on a page and are principles that we try to embed in our day-to-day activity. They are:
48. Make change happen
49. Do better every day
50. Collaborate to delivery our best work
51. Influence to build a better world
52. Always learning
53. Treat each other with care and respect
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.
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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 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.
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
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:
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.