Overview
At Turner & Townsend we are passionate about making a difference. Delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people realise their potential and contributing to a prosperous society. For over 75 years we have been delivering on our clients’ objectives, achieving significant growth and facing a new wave of growth to achieve our ambitious 2025 vision. To reach this goal we need great people passionate about delivering great outcomes and contributing to our future vision.
Job Description
* Identify trends and root causes of deviations against the baseline to recommend remedial actions.
* Lead evaluation of the project’s time, cost and quality targets applying governance controls as necessary.
* Cooperate with a remote team of cost managers to reach an agreed market‑tested cost baseline and ensure value for money.
* Guide and influence the general contractor to progress in line with the schedule within agreed cash flow parameters.
* Act as the key point of contact to the client overcoming delivery and commercial issues whilst preparing formal and ad‑hoc reports focusing on time, cost and quality targets.
* Control costs with conceptual estimating, funding stage gates, basic contingency principles and procurement principles.
* Create and work within a cost report summarising financials in an executive level dashboard.
* Understand change management principles, lead agreed change management process and provide a platform for adding/tracking/monitoring/approving change.
* Coordinate and lead planning sessions and workshops with clients and vendors to compile the master project/programme schedule, agreeing baselines and a critical path.
* Understand procurement principals, collate lead times from vendors and client into the master schedule and communicate prioritisation of ordering materials and equipment to meet scheduled install dates.
* Work closely with the client to define vendor schedule requirements.
* Actively participate in project team risk evaluations incorporating defined risks into Monte Carlo to output quantitative impacts to overall cost and schedule.
* Work closely with the project team to stay informed on status of project changes and communicate these to allow approvals in the change management process.
* Hold vendors accountable for required schedule updates and reporting to maintain timely and accurate updates of the master schedule ensuring that the schedules adhere to the defined process and quality expectations.
Qualifications
* Proven experience in project controls coordination in all phases of the project lifecycle including program, risk and reporting with specialist life sciences or data centre sector experience.
* Demonstrated experience in determining corrective actions or recommendations based on facts and figures and critically evaluating information and data from various sources.
* Advanced skills in MS Office and Primavera P6.
* Able to demonstrate a commitment to providing excellent service.
* Reliable with ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
* Strong time management skills, quick thinking and ability to meet project deadlines as necessary.
* Highly motivated and driven with a passion for delivering to your clients and ability to work independently.
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.
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
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