Project Manager (Defence) - Real Estate

Company Description

At Turner & Townsend, we’re passionate about making the difference. As a data and digital led business, with an authority on the economics of sustainability, we are committed to delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential and transform the performance of major projects and programmes delivering a greener, more inclusive, and productive world.

Every day we help our global clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 110 offices worldwide.

Job Description

• To support our growing defence portfolio, providing support for large-scale defence contracts, both client side and consultant side.
• To lead day to day delivery of large-scale defence contracts and provide the key interfaces to the wider project delivery team.

We are looking to actively grow our defence sector accounts on a local, national and corporate scale. To successfully achieve our targets, we are seeking highly motivated, technically competent, and practically skilled individuals who have foundation experience working as part of a delivery team to join our expanding defence community. You will be part of the fastest growing framework in the business, with opportunities to grow both your own foundation delivery experience and knowledge and collectively working towards common goals and thriving on each other’s success.

A Defence Sector Project Manager would be expected to support large-scale contracts and projects within our overall Defence Sector Portfolio. Typically, these are large scale capital investment projects from a wider portfolio initiative supporting one of the 6 TLB holders. Key delivery responsibilities include day to day design team management at a delivery level supporting the overall capital project process both with day-to-day ownership of core project management tasks through all RIBA work stages. Successful performance is measured on the core parameters of any project whilst facilitating programme, risk, and change management.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Proven track record of successfully supporting components of large-scale defence projects across multiple RIBA work stages, either as a consultant or in a client organisation.
• Proven track record of successfully leading components of large/small scale design management or post contract experience.
• Experience of supporting design teams / technical disciplines or general resource management.
• SC level Security Clearance.
• Very good client care and communication.
• Flexibility / willingness to travel with accompanying overnight stays.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and able to use and manage Common Data Environments.

Desirable:

• APM associate or equivalent.
• Foundation level Project Management Qualification (PRINCE 2, APMQ etc.).
• Technical Degree in broader Engineering disciplines or wider Earth Sciences.
• Demonstrable experience of procurement and wider commercial acumen (ideally supporting public sector business cases and framework style single or two stage tendering).
• Some experience using NEC3/4 PSC/ECC contracts (both pre- and post-contract).

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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/

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