At Turner & Townsend we’re passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realise their potential, and doing our part to transform performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world.

Our programme offers a structured and supported return to the workplace for professionals who have taken career breaks of at least two years. We passionately believe that those who have had time away, for whatever reason, can bring skills and experience that will strengthen, enhance, and diversify our teams.

Within the South West region our infrastructure team has strong positions in Transport, Utilities, Power and Defence. Over the past years we have seen significant growth in the Defence sector and have a range of opportunities to develop experience across various projects and programmes. We are currently seeking applications from Project Managers interested in working in the Defence sector.

We are seeking passionate people to join our organisation who have a positive outlook, are seeking development opportunities, have a strong foundation of technical understanding and experience within defence or other highly regulated industries.

Job Objectives

• Understand defence project lifecycle and procurement process
• Influence and support client project delivery through appropriate planning, monitoring, and controlling
• Interact with the project team to define and interrogate scope of work
• Champion the appropriate programme and project delivery strategies to secure a successful business outcome
• Definition of programmes and projects ensuring alignment with client business needs and context
• Promote and foster positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Develop and update detailed schedules, cost information and identification of variances from original plan; prepare and mange any remedial actions required
• Ensure appropriate services to the project are delivered through technical, engineering, project controls, commercial and financial support functions
• Prepare Business Cases and obtain approvals
• Carry out Gateway reviews
• Maintain timely and effective change management processes and procedures
• Prepare regular and clear status reports, dashboards and the like
• Prepare and manage the project plans
• Monitor and advise on status of project KPIs

Expected Qualifications:

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent in a relevant subject
• Full UK Driving Licence

Ideally a Selection of or progress towards;

• Association of Project Management – PFQ, PMQ, PPQ or ChPP
• Member of the Association for Project Management (MAPM)
• PRINCE2 – Practitioner
• Managing Successful Programmes – Practitioner APMP
• Certified Project Management Associate

We encourage individuals who meet most, but not all, of the above qualifications to still apply. We are committed to developing our employees and are always looking for bright and motivated individuals who share our values and can bring unique skills and perspectives to our team.

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/

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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