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
- To lead Project Management Commissions, taking responsibility for end to end service delivery.
- To ensure that client objectives are met and that projects are delivered to time and cost targets and to appropriate quality standards.
- Helping to establish the overall success criteria for the project, including time, cost, technical and performance parameters.
- Identifying and ensuring that the appropriate line manager is aware of quality, safety, health and environment issues.
- Establishing effective project governance, processes and systems to be utilised throughout project.
- Project planning, including producing the detailed project plan.
- Solid knowledge of construction industry technical matters, such as different procurement routes, value management and value.
- 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.
- Preparing formal project progress and other reports.
- Knowledge management – Ensuring that key information and learning generated from each project is entered into the Turner & Townsend internal database.
- Financial management – Ensuring prompt client invoicing and utilising FMS in order to monitor a project’s financial status.
- Process improvement – Identifying ways in which internal systems and processes can be improved and referring ideas to the appropriate line manager.
- Taking a leading role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages.
- SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
- Comply with the requirements of Turner & Townsend’s Business Management Systems including Health & Safety, Environmental and Quality Management associated with the role and position within the company.
- Design, management or construction experience gained within the general construction environment.
- A minimum of 2 - 5 years project management experience, preferably gained within the above environment.
- A thorough understanding of the total project life cycle, from project conception stage, through all of the operational stages to completion and post-project review.
- Excellent knowledge and experience of all of the main project management concepts, tools and techniques.
- Experience of leading and facilitating the overall cross-functional project team for medium sized construction projects of medium to high complexity.
- Business development experience, including developing business with existing and new clients and cross-selling.
- Experience of working within a Client focused environment.
- Experience of working within the Australian market and/or Australian projects.
- Detailed working knowledge of Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
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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What We Do
Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes. Together with our clients, we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources.
