Senior Project Lead in Sydney

All over the world people are using buildings, infrastructure, and assets we helped to deliver. For more than 75 years we’ve been helping to deliver transformational programmes across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors, making a difference to people’s lives and ensuring a return on investment for our clients and their investors.

Our purpose: Transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world. The world is changing and we have a responsibility to support that change, helping drive it and be part of it. Through the commitment, capability and care our team brings, we build trust between clients, suppliers, governments and society. Delivering better outcomes that have a positive impact on the world around us.

Our values:

• Love a challenge: We love a challenge and we work hard to make change happen and see things through. We don’t stand still, challenging ourselves and others to do better every day.
• Stronger together: We’re stronger together by connecting people in diverse teams, so that we can all collaborate to deliver our best work.
• Bring out the best in everyone: We bring out the best in everyone. We help each other to make the most of our potential, always learning from our experience.

Job Description

• To lead Project Management Commissions, taking responsibility for end to end service delivery, often with respect to large or complex projects.
• To act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met and that projects are delivered to time and cost targets and the appropriate quality standards.
• 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.
• Lead and manage large stakeholder groups focused on business outcomes.
• Lead and manage project review and reporting mechanisms; project financial management; change control and quality reporting.
• Lead the preparation of AFL agreements, and negotiate accordingly.
• Solve client problems by conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis, including client interviews and workshops, document reviews and the presentation of our findings and recommendations.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including clients, project teams, and within our business.
• Assisting in business development activities such as development of proposals, internal opportunity management, and thought leadership development.
• Collaborate across service line with Turner & Townsend sectors/service lines to bring additional value to clients, and seek cross-sell opportunities.

Qualifications

• Ideally professionally qualified in one of the following fields: construction, project management, engineering, surveying or architecture.
• Strong corporate office capability and experience.
• Existing relationships in the corporate occupier sector with design consultants, builders and clients will be favorable.
• Team leadership capability, must be able to manage client, lead or implement project strategy, and manage client.
• Ideally you will have worked with leading consultancies.
• Strong stakeholder and construction management experience essential.
• Delivered and lead teams on schemes in excess of 50,000 sqft.
• Existing relationship with Sydney occupier market.

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.