Associate Director, Digital Controls, 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 are a project professional with experience on major capital programmes or large portfolios in the infrastructure, real estate, energy & natural resources or defence market sectors.

Our clients are ‘project enterprises’, invested in the delivery of a broad range of physical assets e.g. railways, airports (infrastructure), data centres, manufacturing facilities (real estate), offshore wind turbines, mines (energy & natural resources), naval ships (defence).

You want to transform our clients’ approach to project-programme-portfolio management (P3M) by implementing digital solutions.

You will combine your knowledge of establishing project ‘ways of working’ with your awareness of P3M solutions to maximise successful outcomes and investment returns for our clients.

We are seeking to recruit talented individuals at consultant/ senior consultant/ principal consultant grades, who feel their experience and capabilities could support digital transformations for our clients by implementing and integrating applications and data to support robust project management and project controls.

As part of our team you will be expected to:

• Assess current challenges and determine client requirements;
• Implement or refine established P3M methodologies, processes, data structures, tools and systems that enables the client to achieve desired project outcomes;
• Direct technology suppliers and lead digital implementation teams to establish client capability;
• Embed changes in client enterprises by supporting stakeholder engagement and business readiness activities;
• Continuously improve our advisory services;
• Produce documents/ deliverables and reports to support findings and recommendations across various stages of client engagements;
• Work within diverse and multi-disciplinary teams representing Turner & Townsend at both client sites and virtually;
• Participate in various business generation activities such as bids, proposals etc. and work closely alongside senior management and the wider Turner & Townsend team;
• Support marketing and social media campaigns (employee advocacy) where appropriate;

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have experience and qualifications in line with the below, but we are open to enthusiastic and ambitious individuals from all backgrounds who want to pursue a successful consultancy career, keen on enabling clients to achieve successful outcomes.

• Graduate calibre with relevant industry experience;
• Experience in the establishment or transformation of project ‘ways of working’ integrating P3M disciplines and/ or enterprise functions e.g. project controls, commercial, delivery/ PM, finance, information management etc.;
• Experience defining or refining project structures to integrate asset information, work, resource, schedule, cost and risk;
• Experience translating client methodologies into supply chain requirements and contract scope;
• Experience in the specification or implementation of project controls or P3M technology;
• Experience of major capital programmes or large portfolios;
• Familiarity with core project controls functions (scope, schedule, cost, risk, performance reporting);
• Experience of business capability establishment or change;
• APM, PMI or similar certification or equivalent experience would be advantageous;

Key expected behaviours and ways of working

• Take personal responsibility to complete actions and resolve issues;
• Able to build strong, professional internal and client relationships;
• Possess an analytical mindset;
• Able to express ideas with clarity, sticking to the key points;
• Able to listen effectively to understand wider issues and the impact on self and others;
• Able to show clear determination to achieve goals that have been set;
• Able to remain resilient despite obstacles, disappointments or challenges at work;

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.

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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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