Total 93 job vacancies by Turner & Townsend

Turner & Townsend will give you the opportunity to work with world class clients on cutting edge projects and to build a successful career with a company that will offer the highest levels of support at every stage. 

We work on projects of all sizes from one-off developments to mega-programmes, from planning the future development across Power Generation, Power Distribution and Infrastructure projects to site based construction of individual projects, while helping the largest companies in the world. We cover everything from leading teams, planning works, tracking progress and business case delivery to bringing assets into use. 

In a Senior Estimating role, you will have knowledge in: 

• First principles estimating in the Power, Utilities and Infrastructure sectors. 
• Preparation and monitoring of budgets, forecasts, and expenditure profiles for projects and work packages 
• Co-ordination and production of feasibility studies and multi-tier cost reports 
• Undertake key tendering and procurement activities, including establishing pre-qualification stage requirements, preparation of pre-tender estimates, tender analysis, tender reports and the compilation of contractual documents 
• Deep analysis and assessment of cost estimates and forecasts provided by contractors and the supply chain 
• Application of estimating and cost planning activities including producing and presenting a final cost plan 
• Good knowledge and experience of the main project management concepts, tools, and techniques. 

• Lead and manage complex projects and programs as the key client interface.
• To help in the establishment and optimisation of the client’s strategic program.
• Develop working relationships, problem solving and driving projects to successful completion.
• Managing the design process to achieve the client's requirements and manage expectations.
• Reviewing project plans and specifications, scheduling, costs saving measures, discrepancies, potential construction problems, etc.
• Managing project timelines, risks and reporting.
• Managing project budgets and advising on options to keep budget on track.
• Chairing project meetings with clients and consultants.
• Being engaged with marketing and business development initiatives.

As an Associate Director in our Procurement Advisory team, you will be client-facing to build and maintain high-quality relationships with key clients in our target markets. You will play a key role in building our team’s capability and culture. A significant amount of your time will be spent leading consulting/advisory assignments for clients. You will excel in your role as a key contributor and leader in multi-disciplinary advisory teams. Your deep knowledge and experience in procurement, transaction management and contract management will be critical to the success of our work for clients.  

The primary responsibilities of the role are as follows: 

• Developing robust contemporary procurement strategies for our clients’ major projects and programs, helping to assure successful project outcomes and reduce delivery risks.

• Transaction management on major ($300m+) capital projects, setting up projects and programs for success by leading the procurement process.   

• Providing clients with expert contract management skills to support their projects, from initial contract set up through to managing variations and claims. 

• Proactively building networks with other members of the Turner & Townsend team, and with our key clients in the region, becoming a trusted advisor on matters relating to procurement and contract management for capital projects. 

• Contributing to Turner & Townsend’s vision and mission by developing proposals to address client challenges, creating innovative new service offerings, and prudent management of financial performance within your area of the business.   

• Being an active and empathetic leader of integrated advisory teams, taking ownership of commissions from start to finish, and directing and coaching our consulting staff. 

• Making a material contribution to business development and practice development. 

• Creating a collaborative and supportive team environment. 

As a Principal Consultant, you will support, and in some cases lead, consulting commission, taking responsibility for client engagement and team leadership for both our clients and team, including: 

• Support team leadership in NSW advisory, providing technical knowledge and support to our multi-disciplinary team.
• To act as day-to-day management consultant, ensuring that client objectives are met and that projects are delivered to time and cost targets and the appropriate quality standards. 
• Producing clear, concise, and persuasive client-facing reports or deliverables in various formats that deliver to client expectations and demonstrate value.  
• In addition to these primary activities, you will be charged with the following activities: 
  • Provide complementary services to Turner & Townsends propositions such as project management, cost management, contract services and program management. 
  • Proven ability to lead complex organizational transformations, leveraging strategic vision, change management and stakeholder engagements to drive successful outcomes.
  • Deploying a variety of techniques to deliver improvements to client operations that include, but are not limited to, process re-engineering, visual analytics, organizational change, stakeholder management implementation and beyond. 
  • The development of key client data insight and visualization reports used to drive enhanced performance and management.
  • The development of program/ portfolio management systems used to improve delivery reporting and assure our clients investments are effectively and efficiently controlled.
  • To support the development of consulting and advisory sales opportunities with new or existing clients and convert successfully through high quality bid writing and propositions.

• Support the National Feasibility Project Management Team to ensure goals and objectives are met.
• Arrange existing condition reports for new and existing projects and liaise with relevant vendors/consultants. Oversee and monitor the completion of the audit reports.
• Raise vendor/consultant work orders and facilitate invoicing to ensure jobs are completed within given timeframes.
• Monitor and follow up on outstanding invoices as required to ensure invoices are processed in a timely manner.
• Produce presentation packs for the submission to funding approval committee and attend as required. Arrange and allocate project funding as set out in the meeting.
• Maintain and foster positive relationship with key clients and engage in process improvements to ensure efficient completion of tasks.
• Collaborate with all relevant internal stakeholders and external consultants i.e., Project Managers, Planners, Architects, Engineers and resolve any concerns/issues as required.
• Collect and analyse project data and submit to tracking systems ensuring project milestones are being met.
• Set up projects and associated users on construction project management system. Ensure all required feasibility documentation has been acquired and uploaded to each project.
• Support Senior Management with decision making on key matters ensuring all actions are fulfilled in a timely manner.
• Assist with ad hoc duties as assigned by Senior Management.
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.
• Comply with the requirements of Turner & Townsend’s Business Management Systems including Health & Safety, Environmental and Quality Management associated with the role and position within the company.

Turner & Townsend will give you the opportunity to work with world class clients on cutting edge projects and to build a successful career with a company that will offer the highest levels of support at every stage.

In our Project Management roles, your duties are:

• Lead and manage complex projects and programs as the key client interface
• Developing working relationships, problem solving and driving projects to successful completion
• Managing the design process to achieve the client's requirements and manage expectations
• Reviewing project plans and specifications, scheduling, costs saving measures, discrepancies, potential construction problems, etc.
• Managing project safety and environmental requirements
• Managing project timelines, risks and reporting
• Managing project budgets and advising on options to keep budget on track
• Chairing project/site meetings with clients, consultants and contractors 
• Being engaged with marketing and business development initiatives

Turner & Townsend will give you the opportunity to work with world class clients on cutting edge projects and to build a successful career with a company that will offer the highest levels of support at every stage.

We are looking for someone who is driven to make a difference and who has the integrity to do so in an inclusive and collaborative way. We are looking for someone with knowledge and experience of established project delivery frameworks, and who has the vision and desire to challenge these established ways of working in order to bring about better outcomes for our clients and our teams.

As an effective Project Director, you will have demonstrable experience in:

• Leading and managing large scale construction projects and programs as the key client interface
• Leading the development phase of projects (schematic design, detailed design up to funding approval)
• Leading the delivery phase of projects from procurement through to successful completion.
• Managing all aspects of project administration, budgets, timelines, risks and reporting and quality.
• Taking responsibility for stage gate governance throughout the projects lifecycle
• Developing and leveraging industry relationships and preparing strategies from a business generation and project delivery perspective

As a Project Manager/ Senior Project Manager at Turner & Townsend, you will have a commercial focus and experience working across a number of large or complex projects.

• Advising at a strategic level at the project conception stage, including providing advice on the different approaches that can be adopted in order to successfully achieve the client’s overall objectives.
• Leading the establishment of the overall success criteria for the project, including time, cost, technical and performance parameters.
• Planning for and the ongoing management of quality, safety, health and environment issues.
• Establishing effective project governance, processes and systems to be utilised throughout project.
• Project planning, including ensuring the production of the detailed project plan.
• Advising upon the procurement of resources.
• Leading and facilitating the overall cross-functional project team.
• Monitoring and applying performance management techniques, including the use of KPI’s to improve project performance.
• Managing the change control process.
• Marketing and business development activities  
• Internal management activities including staff management (where appropriate), financial management and quality processes and procedures.

Turner & Townsend will give you the opportunity to work with world class clients on cutting edge projects and to build a successful career with a company that will offer the highest levels of support at every stage. 

We work on projects of all sizes from one-off developments to mega-programmes, from planning the future development across Infrastructure projects to site-based construction of individual projects, while helping the largest companies in the world. We cover everything from leading teams, planning works, tracking progress and business case delivery to bringing assets into use. 

In a Quality Assurance role, you will have knowledge in: 

• Produce audit schedules to cover all project requirements and conduct audits 
• Defining quality procedures in conjunction with operating staff 
• Ensuring procedures are properly understood and implemented 
• Agreeing standards and establishing clearly defined quality methods 
• Setting up and maintaining controls and documented procedures 
• Identifying with management relevant quality-related training needs 
• Collating and analysing quality performance data and charts against defined parameters 
• Promoting quality achievement and performance improvement throughout the organisation 
• Setting QA compliance objectives and ensuring that targets are achieved 
• Producing management systems / functional discipline reports 

Job Purpose:

• Manage deliverables for retail projects at different stages within a large programme of works
• Key point of contact at project level between T&T and client delivery project manager

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project deliverables through the life of the project including Estimating, Procurement, Contract and Post Contract activities for projects value between $1m to $10m
• Develop good working relationships with client project management team and internal cost management team
• Gain a good understanding of the processes, tools and best practice templates used to meet our deliverables
• Gain a good understanding of the terminology and ways of working within the retail sector
• Providing Client with cost advice for budget purpose including cost planning of upcoming projects (New Stores and Renewals).  This may include site walks within NSW.
• Clearly understand our scope of service and carry out commission management functions at project level

Turner & Townsend will give you the opportunity to work with world class clients on cutting edge projects and to build a successful career with a company that will offer the highest levels of support at every stage.

We work on projects of all sizes from one-off developments to mega-programmes, from planning the future development across Infrastructure projects to site based construction of individual projects, while helping the largest companies in the world.

In a Forensic Planning role, you will have knowledge in:

• Experience in leading the analysis of time-based claims up or down the supply-chain, leading to successful negotiated resolution of the same.
• Critically analyses project and major programme performance, identifying root cause of those elements in distress.
• Broad experience in SCL and AACE guidelines and protocols for schedule forensic analysis
• Expertise in the use of Primavera planning software
• Adaptability in analysis methodology
• Application of analytical methodologies to large datasets to calculate schedule delay overruns in large scale construction projects
• Commercial acumen
• Lead development of a strategy to successfully recover performance of distressed project or major programmes in line with Client outcomes.
• Critically analyse the strengths and weaknesses of Client claims and/or disputes, providing strategic advice on proceeding; and or amending the basis of claim.
• Lead the drafting of detailed expert witness reports, converting technical data into a narrative
• Help with building the brand and networking to identify new clients.
• Provide and drive the direction of the strategic, operational and technical diagnosis of the client needs.
• Support client’s organisation and senior management in improving their capacity to develop and deliver major projects and programs efficiently and effectively.
• Build a team of strong project claims analysists with your guidance and mentoring.

Turner & Townsend will give you the opportunity to work with world class clients on cutting edge projects and to build a successful career with a company that will offer the highest levels of support at every stage.

We are looking for someone who is driven to make a difference and who has the integrity to do so in an inclusive and collaborative way. We are looking for someone with knowledge and experience of established project delivery frameworks, and who has the vision and desire to challenge these established ways of working in order to bring about better outcomes for our clients and our teams.

As an effective Director, you will have demonstrable experience in:

• Drive local business vision, strategy, focus and goals.
• Leading and managing large scale construction projects and programs as the key client interface. Establish and maintain a client-focused environment.
• Leads business development activities and provides communication and focus.
• Taking responsibility for stage gate governance throughout the projects lifecycle
• Developing and leveraging industry relationships and preparing strategies from a business generation and project delivery perspective.
• Delivers an exciting team vision, which inspires others to perform beyond their initial aspirations.
• Supports client organisations to develop and deliver major projects and programs efficiently and effectively.
• Manage the development of cost estimates from drawings and specifications.
• Lead the team across a variety of Infrastructure projects in the utilities and transport sectors. 
• Grow and develop exceptional people for your team.
• Displaying excellence in service delivery leadership.

• We work across Retail, Health, Education, Defence, Infrastructure and Natural Resources.
• Collaborate and develop good relationships with clients and stakeholders internally and externally
• Responsible for pre and post-contract quantity surveying duties including preparation of cost estimates, procurement and tendering, contract administration, variation, final account, etc.
• Completing feasibility studies and writing procurement reports
• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting the final cost plan
• Tendering and procuring, including managing the pre-qualification stage, producing the tender list, putting the preliminaries together, tender analysis, producing the tender report and compiling the contractual documents
• Taking personal responsibility for making cost checks and carrying out valuations on larger projects and in all cases ensuring that timely and accurate cost checking and valuation takes place
• Producing monthly post contract cost reports and presenting them to the client
• Interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Risk Analyst (SRMA) with Quantitative Risk Assessment (QRA) expertise to join our busy and expanding Sydney-based Infrastructure team, who are advising clients on a range of high-profile infrastructure projects across Australia. This role will suit a Senior Risk Analyst who is skilled in developing QRAs from a rail, aviation, water/utilities, energy or defence background with proven experience of QCRA and QSRA compilation and a detailed understanding of risk management processes.

The Senior Risk Analyst will coordinate the compilation of the necessary project and risk data, model this at a package and project level to provide probabilistic certainty to the project. The SRMA will provide reports on the QRA modelling and scenario outcomes.

The primary purpose of the role is to lead the QRA risk modelling function on a complex infrastructure project. In addition to providing quantitative risk modelling assessments, the SRMA will be required to undertake sensitivity and scenario analyses. 

The SRMA will work with the PMO and Delivery Teams to collate all QRA inputs. The SRMA will ensure the quality and validation of all inputs and that all outputs are accurate.

The main duties of a Senior Risk Analyst is:

• Conduct QRAs to inform project contingency levels and track risk exposure.
• Provide QRA sensitivity and scenario modelling analyses.
• Candidates will have an expert level proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Produce risk dashboards, reports and PowerPoints, in a timely manner, to support the presentation of QRA results.
• Candidates will ideally be proficient with data visualisation tools such as Power BI, Tableau or similar.
• Be able to model cash flows across time and calculate escalation impacts.
• Monitor overall risk exposure and assess against the remaining risk budget.
• Analyse QRA results to reflect variations and trends, as well as highlighting areas of concern.
• Comply with corporate risk management standards, policies, and procedures.

Turner & Townsend will give you the opportunity to work with world class clients on cutting edge projects and to build a successful career with a company that will offer the highest levels of support at every stage.

We work on projects of all sizes from one-off developments to mega-programmes, from planning the future development across Clean Energy and Renewable projects to site based construction of individual projects, while helping the largest companies in the world. We cover everything from leading teams, planning works, tracking progress and business case delivery to bringing assets into use. 

In an Planner/Project Controls Specialist role, you will have knowledge in:

• Work in an integrated planning and cost environment within the project to optimise the use of available resources to complete work plan scopes within budget and time constraints.
• Ensure that the established planning and scheduling methodology is followed in developing project schedule.
• Develop Project Milestone and Progress tracking baselines.
• Assess subcontractor compliance with established scheduling methodology.
• Support the development of the Work Breakdown Structure to support project delivery.
• Perform analysis of schedule data; identify trends, issues, and areas requiring attention to the Lead Planner and the Project Team.
• Contribute to schedule reporting, including schedule forecast updates and schedule contingency management.
• Support schedule performance updates, analysis and reports in a timely manner.
• Ensure compatibility of contractors schedules with the integrated schedules/milestones.
• Analyse resource requirement and availability impacts on the schedule and recommend recovery options.

• inEight Document (Teambinder) admin and support
• Control of documents including design drawings, specifications, calculations, lists, data sheets, vendor data
• Check of Design Submissions to ensure metadata compliance
• Initiation of design reviews
• Reporting of contract deliverables
• Develop and provide core information and input for gateway reviews as required.
• Ensure the timely turn around of documentation issued internally or received externally
• All project documentation have been filed and closed out.

Turner & Townsend will give you the opportunity to work with world class clients on cutting edge projects and to build a successful career with a company that will offer the highest levels of support at every stage.

We work on projects of all sizes from one-off developments to mega-programmes, from planning the future development across large Clean Energy projects to site based construction of individual projects, while helping the largest companies in the world. We cover everything from leading teams, planning works, tracking progress and business case delivery to bringing assets into use. 

In a OHSEQ Specialist role:

• Assist with the development of an effective and efficient projects safety management system and programs.
• Assist with the development of management plans and associated documentation.
• Assist with the provision of effective and high quality OHSEQ service to clients.
• Assist with the preparation and submission of weekly and monthly reports including recommendations on OHSEQ management and statistics.
• Assists with specialised OHSEQ Management System development including standards, policies and procedures and supporting systems, ensuring that all relevant legislative and regulatory requirements and standards are met.
• Provide expert advice to clientele, internal and external stakeholders with respect to the policies, management guidelines and procedures as applicable to OHSEQ.
• Evaluate contractor OHSEQ documentation to ensure compliance to clients and regulatory requirements.

• To perform the role of the Senior Cost Manager or Associate Director, taking responsibility for end-to-end service delivery in the healthcare sector (public and private).
• To ensure that client objectives are met through the delivery of an effective cost management service from pre-contract to handover.
• Take responsibility for end-to-end service delivery on new and exciting, major healthcare projects and state significant programmes.
• Estimating and cost planning to include producing and presenting cost plans.
• Using our bespoke tools and apps, powered by The Hive, you will optimise cost performance at every stage of projects.
• Work collaboratively with leading design teams, sector specialists and tier one main contractors to manage the design to budget.
• Use our Benchmarking app to analyse and test budgets using a reliable pool of national data.
• Use CostX and our cost planning app to improve collaboration with designers and highlight changes between design stages.
• Inform our clients of future cost trends by harnessing the analytical capabilities of our Market Rates App which captures, analyses and stores live national data at a component level.
• Advise clients on procurement and contract strategies.
• Deliver the procurement strategy producing a tender analysis and prepare a final tender recommendation report.
• Experience of taking an effective lead on Two-Stage Tender agreements with strong negotiation and organisational skills
• Deal effectively with post contract cost variances, the change control process and valuations utilising our Cost Control App.
• Present monthly post contract cost control reports to the client.
• Inputting into value engineering.
• Negotiation and agreeing final accounts.
• Where appropriate, leading junior members of the cost management team, ensuring that they deliver on their project accountabilities.