Significant growth in the water sector means we are looking for a Project Manager to support the successful delivery of high-profile projects and programmes across the water sector. This is a nationwide role with regular travel requirements to client locations, including a minimum of three days per week either in client offices, or on site.
We have opportunities in a diverse portfolio of major water and infrastructure works, including strategic water supply programmes, environmental improvement programmes, and major asset upgrades. As an Associate Project Managers you will lead teams and manage safe, timely, high-quality delivery within budget. You will work with multidisciplinary teams, contractors, consultants and client stakeholders to achieve successful outcomes. Depending on the programme, roles may also involve alliance delivery, portfolio management and complex change.
A strong understanding of infrastructure delivery within a regulated environment is beneficial. You will be comfortable operating within a fast-paced delivery environment, with a good understanding of governance, a strong focus on safety and a collaborative one-team approach.
Project Managers at Turner & Townsend:
Project Managers at Turner & Townsend work on a broad range of projects and programmes in Water & Environmental Resilience and we are looking for individuals with the following skills, experience and attributes
- Demonstrable experience within the infrastructure, engineering, or construction industry, with a proven track record of delivering complex projects and programmes in a client-facing environment
- Experience of infrastructure project management across the project lifecycle including project management principles, delivery to client objectives, contract management, leadership and teamwork, financial management, project controls and health, safety, quality and environmental management
- Ability to support multiple interdependent projects and ensure delivery safely, on time, within budget and to the required quality standards
- Interpersonal and stakeholder management skills with the ability to build trusted relationships across client and partner organisations
- Demonstrable experience in the successful delivery of major programmes, managing complex stakeholder environments, multidisciplinary teams, significant budgets, and strategic project objectives
- Problem solving, analytical and numerical skills with the ability to understand complex challenges and support delivery of practical solutions
- Planning, communication and organisational skills including the ability to manage several workstreams simultaneously
- Strong working knowledge and practical experience of NEC contracts, including the administration, management and successful delivery of projects under NEC frameworks, with an ability to proactively manage risk, programme, compensation events and stakeholder relationships
- Demonstrates a strong understanding of operating within a consultancy environment, acting as a trusted advisor to clients while maintaining independence from both client and supplier organisations, and balancing multiple stakeholder needs to achieve successful project outcomes
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced agile delivery environment with a one-team approach
- Places safety at the heart of delivery
The role will require x3 days per week on the client site in Peterborough.