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Turner & Townsend is seeking experienced Infrastructure Project/Programme Management Associates to join their expanding utilities sector team in London. This is an exceptional opportunity for seasoned professionals to lead high-profile projects, mentor junior talent, and contribute to transformative infrastructure initiatives within a global, CBRE-backed firm renowned for its impact and inclusive culture. If you're driven by complex challenges and aim to shape the future of infrastructure, this role offers significant growth and ownership within a supportive environment.
About the Role
Join Turner & Townsend's growing team and make a difference by delivering a diverse range of highly complex projects and programmes within the utilities sector. Based in our London office, you will work with colleagues and client teams across the South-East region. This role offers ample opportunity for professional growth, career ownership, and personal potential within an inclusive and engaging culture. The majority of roles support a hybrid working pattern, depending on client requirements.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage infrastructure projects/programmes across the full lifecycle, ensuring delivery to client objectives.
- Manage contracts, budgets, financial aspects, and project controls.
- Provide leadership and foster teamwork, developing teams and leading others in challenging or ambiguous environments.
- Address capability gaps and mentor the next generation of Project Managers.
- Manage stakeholders effectively, building long-term trusted advisor relationships with clients and partner organizations.
- Solve complex problems analytically and numerically, shaping workable solutions.
- Create, manage, and modify project/programme plans.
- Ensure effective planning, communication, and organization, managing multiple workstreams simultaneously.
- Communicate effectively with senior client representatives and your team.
- Identify client opportunities and independently solve challenges, leveraging internal business reach-back.
- Promote inclusive environments and act as a role model.
- Ensure health, safety, quality, and environmental management, and prepare status reports.
- Understand and practically apply CDM regulations.
Requirements
- Substantial experience in infrastructure project/programme management across the lifecycle.
- Proven project management principles, including client objective delivery, contract/budget management, financial management, project controls, and schedule management.
- Excellent leadership skills, with the ability to develop teams and lead in challenging environments.
- Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and numerical skills.
- Drive, commitment, and ability to work under pressure.
- Effective planning, communication, and organizational skills.
- Creative, curious, and growth mindset.
- Commitment to promoting inclusive environments.
- Ability to identify client opportunities and solve challenges independently.
Beneficial Experience:
- Utilities/water infrastructure project and/or programme management.
- Procurement and managing NEC contracts.
- High level of commercial awareness.
- Leading multi-disciplinary teams, managing contractors, consultants, and advisors.
- Consultancy or client-side project management experience.
- Familiarity with public sector organizations.
- Delivery within challenging operational environments.
- Proven experience across the full project lifecycle.
- Experience reporting in challenging stakeholder and regulatory environments.
Preferable Qualifications:
- Degree in a management, construction, or infrastructure-related subject, or equivalent experience.
- Professional affiliation with APM, ICE, or equivalent.
- Project management certification (e.g., APM, PRINCE2, MSP).
- NEC Accreditations or qualifications.
- CSCS / equivalent.
- NEBOSH or equivalent H&S qualifications.
- CDM awareness.
Benefits & Culture
- A great place to work with opportunities to affect change.
- Support for work-life balance through a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment.
- Ample opportunity to thrive, own your career, and reach your potential.
- Inclusive, engaging, and supportive culture.
- Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
About Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries. We work with clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy, and natural resources, transforming projects and delivering outcomes that improve people's lives. Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset, and commercial management, net zero, and digital solutions. We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., and work together to provide premier programme, project, and cost management offerings globally.
Visit us at: www.turnerandtownsend.com