Recruitment and Resourcing Manager - Infrastructure
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.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com
Job Description
You will be involved in delivering:
* our Expert Witness services, by assisting our quantum experts in delivering expert quantum reports for adjudication, litigation, and other forms of dispute resolution; and
* our Recovery service by assisting our contract and commercial specialists in providing strategic advice to clients whose project and major programmes are in commercial distress.
Successful applicants will work in a team undertaking detailed analysis of construction projects in the UK and internationally. We are looking for an ambitious and driven individual seeking to join an experienced team of construction experts with a strong brand across our marketplace.
Turner & Townsend has an exciting portfolio of works across our Recovery and Expert Witness services and are looking to grow in order to successfully meet our Client’s needs.
We are looking for a talented Senior Consultant who is experienced in matters of quantum and/or commercial management to support our Recovery and Expert Witness teams. The successful individual will have the opportunity to develop their career through our dedicated mentoring programme, our established range of learning and development options and the opportunity to support on our strategic objectives with the aim to become appointed as an Expert Witness as part of the formal dispute resolution process or leading on our Recovery service.
The work will need to be a high standard that can withstand scrutiny by other parties. The successful applicant will:
* require a forensic and exploratory mindset
* have a strong knowledge of the construction industry
* need an understanding of construction contracts and the law
* value transparency and collaboration
* be able to work independently where required and agile to adapting to the working method of others
With an established global presence our UK team do support on the some of the most complex projects and programmes across the globe, presenting an opportunity to travel, however this is the exception and the majority of our practice can be delivered remotely. The role anticipates that the applicant will work from their local office as a base to continue our UK team cohesion, but we work on a flexible basis to provide the best environment to meet our client deliverables.
Qualifications
* Relevant construction and engineering industry experience (in the region of) +7yrs
* A construction-related degree qualification and/or legal qualification
* Experience in developing and pursuing claims up or down the supply-chain
* Ability to understand and articulate Client requirements and their desired outcomes
* Critically analyse project and major programme performance, identifying root cause of those elements in distress
* Effective stakeholder management with the Client and at all levels of the supply-chain, chairing meetings with the Client and other advisors as necessary
* Review and assess contemporaneous project records to establish quantum associated with claims and/or disputes
* Working knowledge of relevant applications and technologies in the quantity surveying, commercial management industry, for example BCIS, Cost-X, CEMAR
* Contribute to client meetings
* Assist clients, lawyers and counsel in developing its position where required
* Support the drafting of detailed expert witness reports for use in formal dispute resolution proceedings
* Supporting colleagues with project deliverables
* Undertaking research and development of emerging industry related technologies
* Staying abreast of developments within own technical area of expertise
* Providing direction to staff working with you on specific tasks
* Supporting the interface with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
* Acting as an ambassador championing the Contract Services delivered by Turner & Townsend in the industry
Turrner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.
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