Associate Director, Project Management – Water/Utilities

Overview

As an Associate Director, you will lead multi-disciplinary infrastructure initiatives, guiding delivery across assets and programmes while mentoring the next generation of project managers. You will work with client teams and colleagues across the South-East, shaping strategy, ensuring health and safety, and fostering a collaborative, inclusive culture. This role offers exposure to high-profile utilities projects and industry partnerships, with a focus on sustainable and value-driven delivery. You will help drive Turner & Townsend’s mission to transform complex challenges into successful outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working pattern
• inclusive culture
• supportive, healthy work-life balance

Responsibilities

• Lead multi-disciplinary teams on infrastructure programmes across various lifecycle stages
• Develop and challenge project strategy while ensuring delivery and performance against stakeholders’ expectations
• Promote health, safety, and wellbeing across teams and apply CDM principles
• Foster inclusive teamwork and build trusted advisor relationships with clients and partners
• Coach, mentor and develop others, identifying and nurturing potential
• Build and maintain client partnerships and expand business through collaboration and stakeholder management
• Balance complex commercial arrangements and procurement on infrastructure projects
• Represent and promote the organisation’s purpose and vision in project delivery

Key requirements

• Experience managing infrastructure projects/programmes across lifecycle and multiple sectors
• Ability to challenge and set strategy, with proven leadership and performance management
• Practical understanding of CDM and health and safety requirements
• Experience in managing NEC or other contracts and complex procurement
• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams including contractors and advisors
• Experience in consultancy and/or client-side project management
• Familiarity with public sector organisations, sustainability in projects, and complex regulatory environments
• Delivery in complex operational environments and reporting to stakeholders

• Strong leadership and decision-making
• Excellent interpersonal and stakeholder management
• Collaborative and inclusive mindset
• NEC contracts and complex procurement
• Project management qualification (APM/PRINCE2/MSP/ChPP)
• CDM awareness

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