Project Director – Planning and Scheduling

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.

Job Description

At Turner & Townsend our award-winning Planning and Scheduling team are focused on driving innovation, enhancing our client’s integrated controls capability, improving performance, and delivering better programme outcomes. We have a growing national team of over 600 Controls & Performance professionals. The breadth and scale of our team provide great opportunities to reach back and draw upon a vast pool of experience to enhance your knowledge and career. Our strong capability, discipline communities and varied client base, provides a great opportunity to drive your career, supported by our career pathways.

We are seeking an experienced Project Director - Planning & Scheduling to join our busy and expanding team, who are undertaking a range of Controls & Performance duties on several high-profile Energy & Natural Resources Projects/Programmes. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to work as part of our senior leadership team driving innovation, collaboration and learning from our experienced and award-winning Cost Control community and wider extensive Controls and Performance Network.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Leading/working in project delivery and Turner & Townsend business operations, responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead:
  • Commissions in a client facing role, managing high value and complex projects, developing our talented teams and engage in our local markets.
  • Improvements in Planning and Scheduling (and interfacing project controls) processes to create efficiency and increasing benefits to our clients.
  • Interdisciplinary relationships that operate for the benefit of our clients.
• Accountable for:
  • The continued success and growth of the Planning and Scheduling team in relation to business generation, resource planning, and business strategy / opportunities.
  • Project scope, capability delivery and maintaining high levels of client satisfaction.
  • Senior Line management activities including career development and Planning and Scheduling.
  • The development of the project controls capability through recruitment, training, and experience.
  • The implementation, embedding, and roll-out of any identified changes to Planning and Scheduling processes.
• Drive:
  • The national and regional Community of Practice.
• Promote:
  • The benefits and requirements of Performance and Reporting within the business and external industry.
• Provide:
  • Subject Matter Expertise.
  • Expert analysis to relevant stakeholders and senior management, supporting effective decision making.
  • Training and coaching clients and less experienced leadership team members on Planning and Scheduling processes and practices.  
• Support:
  • National and regional initiatives that are aimed at achieving strategic goals such as growth, outreach, or improvement.

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS

• You make change happen by viewing the needs of our business through a broad lens and taking responsibility for shaping the future. You challenge our leaders and teams to be ready for the future.
• We do better every day because you have a transformational perspective in developing and implementing strategy. You drive improvement in our offering to manage performance and drive accountability for execution at all levels.
• You act as a role model for collaboration and our ‘One Business’ approach, thereby fostering a culture of partnership across the business, with clients, and the broader community.
• You focus on leading and influencing across the business and within our clients, industry, and communities. You use your leadership influence to deliver on our purpose and values.
• You define future capability requirements and plan resou