Senior Project Manager – Primary Infrastructure and Site Enabling Works - #64056

At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society.

Every day we help our major global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects, in over 110 offices worldwide.

You will lead Project Management Commissions, taking responsibility for end to end service delivery, often with respect to large or complex projects.

Acting as the key, day to day client interface, seeing that client objectives are met and that projects are delivered to time, cost and carbon targets and the appropriate quality standards. 

You will be responsible for delivering primary infrastructure and enabling works projects helping to unlock site value and redeveloping or creating new infrastructure that supports new homes, mixed-use developments, and/or public facilities. This will likely include the procurement and management of design and other required consultants, managing the processes for securing third party approvals or adoptions, managing the preparation and submission of planning applications and discharging planning conditions, procurement and management of contractors, and meeting health, safety and wellbeing requirements. 

You will need to have a good understanding of the process of design and the securing of approvals for works associated with unlocking sites; S278 / S38 highway adoption, land transfers, land remediation, utilities delivery or diversions (statutory authority / undertakers process), hard and soft landscaping, drainage solutions, geotechnical and other associated works.  You will ideally have a contractor (works) background and knowledge of contract administration, including (preferably) NEC forms of contract. You will have considered and advise the client on how work streams will be coordinated and delivered, working through optioneering to develop phasing strategies. You will also develop and manage the project Programme.

You will be an excellent communicator familiar with reporting on programme/schedule, project costs and contingencies, quality, contractor and/or consultant team performance, risks and opportunities, and alignment with the client’s objectives. 

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Project management, to include:

• Advising at a strategic level at the project conception stage, including providing advice on the different approaches that can be adopted in order to successfully achieve the client’s overall objectives
• Leading the establishment of the overall success criteria for the project, including time, cost, technical and performance parameters
• Managing multi-disciplinary design (and related) consultants in the production of deliverables needed to advance project delivery
• Managing, with the planning consultant, the preparation, submission and negotiation of planning applications needed to deliver primary infrastructure, or managing the discharge of relevant planning applications/pre-conditions
• Planning for and the ongoing management of quality, safety, health and environment issues
• Establishing effective project governance, processes and systems to be used throughout project delivery
• Project planning, including the production of the detailed project execution plan
• Advising upon the procurement of resources/consultants
• Leading and facilitating the overall cross-functional project team
• Monitoring and applying performance management techniques, including the use of KPI’s to improve project performance
• Managing the change control process
• Monitoring and advising upon project finances
• Managing the flow of project information between the team and the client, through regular meetings and written communications
• Producing project progress and other reports
• Taking a leading role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages
• Contract administration, preferably NEC forms of contract
• Managing contractors’ performance on site and addressing issues of underperformance (using the contract provisions where required)
• Supporting an ethos of safe working and compliance with health & safety obligations
• Managing your commissions’ financial performance, including invoicing, cashflow and resourcing

Marketing and business development, to include:

• Taking responsibility for developing new business opportunities with existing and new Turner & Townsend clients
• Identifying and acting upon cross-selling opportunities
• Working with Associate Directors and Directors to construct bids for new work
• Attending formal client pitches with Assistant Directors and Directors
• Ensuring that project case studies, photograph and project CV files are kept up to date
• Identifying and acting upon opportunities to improve project management products and services
• Understanding the Turner & Townsend 2+2=5 philosophy and identifying and acting upon cross-divisional opportunities

Internal management accountabilities, to include:

• Knowledge management – Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each project is input into the Turner & Townsend internal database
• Financial management – Ensuring prompt client invoicing and utilising Dynamics 365 in order to monitor a project’s financial status
• Process improvement – Identifying and acting upon ways to improve internal systems and processes

A Senior Project Manager will in part be judged by the extent to which:

• Projects are managed to the right quality standards and are completed efficiently, on time and to budget
• Project delivery meets the client’s objectives and is in line with the conditions of appointment
• The project team is led effectively
• Strong relationships are developed with clients and members of the cross-functional team
• Business development opportunities with existing and new clients, including cross- selling opportunities, are identified and acted upon
• The internal financial status of all projects is effectively monitored
• Key information and data is effectively cascaded and appropriately retained

Skills & Qualifications

• Self-motivated
• Strong influencer
• Passionate about placemaking and people
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Presentation skills

Experience

• Experience of delivering enabling works projects of various scales and complexities
• Minimum 8 years’ industry experience, the majority of which will have been on site overseeing delivery of works
• Consultant team procurement
• Contract management/administration
• Budget and change control management
• Reporting in a range of formats
• Professional team coordination
• Managing complex governance processes
• Developing delivery programmes including design, consents, enabling works, and phasing

Knowledge

• Broad knowledge of development process, preferably including mixed-use, residential, schools, research & development, science parks, campus, logistics, distribution
• Awareness of the need for technical surveys and specialist technical input at key stages
• Understanding of Net Zero Carbon agenda and implications for developments
• Procedural understanding of statutory adoptions processes (for design and completed works) including (preferably) highways, utilities, and works near operational railways
• Understanding of third party assets and associated protection agreements

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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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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