Turner & Townsend is seeking an Associate Director - Program Management to lead the delivery of major construction programs. This role requires an individual with a proven track record of setting up and successfully executing large-scale construction initiatives.
What You'll Do
- Serve as the key point of contact and primary client relationship executive, building and maintaining long-term relationships with clients, consultants, suppliers, and other third parties.
- Lead preconstruction discussions with clients and internal teams to develop contractual obligations such as estimates, schedules, staffing plans, and business plans.
- Oversee and assess the project's master schedule throughout its lifecycle, ensuring contractual obligations are met.
- Promote and follow health, safety, and environment (HSE) policies, enhancing site safety culture and initiatives.
- Oversee the integration of all project disciplines within the master program schedule.
- Develop the work plan that forms the program management plan (PMP).
- Serve as the escalation point for project, financial, business development, contractual, and client relationship risks.
- Provide suggestions and negotiate issue resolution for escalated project issues, including change orders and contingency expenditures.
- Manage the development and approval of design definition documents.
- Review and provide recommendations for change order requests, impact mitigation strategies, and cost reduction initiatives.
- Ensure that estimates, HSE, and schedule impacts from change orders are continually reviewed and validated.
- Review and provide feedback on progress reporting metrics against the program, projects, and contracts.
- Establish and support constructability of review guidelines and protocols.
- Develop program guidelines and protocols for cost reduction initiatives and operability/maintainability recommendations.
- Review design, procurement, and construction progress, providing recommendations for recovery plans.
- Review and provide feedback on safety recommendations and corrective actions.
- Develop and review the program-level framework for construction quality control.
- Develop an overall program of site logistics and phasing strategy.
- Review project manuals, construction management guidelines, policies, and procedures.
- Review claims resolution recommendations.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to achieve project consent and review beneficial use recommendations.
- Ensure sufficient owner rep staffing levels relative to contractual commitments and constraints.
- Continuously monitor the performance of T&T staff to ensure efficient client management.
- Adhere to SOX control responsibilities where applicable.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in construction management, engineering or field related to construction.
- 10+ years of relevant project and program management experience.
- 2+ years managing high performing programs in a consulting environment.
- Knowledge of multiple project delivery methods.
- Proven track record of leading programs.
- Demonstrated experience providing leadership of a team in an integrated project delivery organization.
- Demonstrated experience in negotiating multi-million-dollar contracts as part of a multi-billion-dollar program.
- Proven track record of following through on commitments.
- Demonstrated experience in delivering major capital programs successfully (on budget, on time, meeting safety and quality standards within approved scope).
- Proven track record of building consultative and collaborative partnerships.
- Demonstrates excellent presentation, verbal, written, organizational and communication skills.
Nice to Have
- Graduate degree in construction management or engineering.
Work Mode
This role is onsite.
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.
