Project Manager

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 10,000 people in 50 countries. We transform how capital projects are run, safeguard the interests of our clients and deliver better outcomes; it’s how we’ve made the difference for more than 75 years.

Our Middle East region now employs over 800 people and continues to grow across real estate, infrastructure and natural resources, including clean energy and decarbonisation.

**Job Description**:
You will report to the Turner & Townsend Project Director internally and the client representative at a project level. The incumbent will be based in Saudi Arabia and may be required to travel across the KSA region.

You will act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met and that projects are delivered to time and cost targets and the appropriate quality, sustainability and safety standards.

We are looking for an enthusiastic self-motivated individual who has excellent written and verbal communication skills and who wants to make a difference to the Project Management division.

**Key Attributes and Duties**:
You will have both a strong pre contract and post contract delivery background. You will show excellent management and interpersonal skills and possess a very strong core technical skillset, an understanding of construction and commercial and contractual awareness.

You will understand the complexities of a large scale electricity projects (renewables, transmission and decarbonisation).

Your strong interpersonal skills and exceptional relationship management experience will enable you to effectively liaise with a diverse range of clients, sub-contractors and key stakeholders. You are immaculately presented and possess a perceptive knowledge of the end to end project delivery lifecycle inclusive of design, procurement, permitting, construction and handover processes.

Your proven success in delivering building projects will allow you to execute the following key responsibilities:

- Develop and manage a suite of governance, communication and management control systems for the proper conduct and assured delivery of the client’s essential services and works.
- Review the organisation structures of the parties and recommend alignment measures.
- Monitor overall team performance and initiate any required safety or performance improvement measures and methodologies.
- Monitor and audit compliance with the requirements of the management systems and report as required.
- Continually identify any project risks, actively assign and manage mitigations as appropriate.
- Initiate and conduct weekly technical and progress meetings relating to the services and works.
- Manage any client stage gateway reviews and attainment of conditions precedent to such approvals.
- Manage the attainment of design stage deliverables to schedule and quality that may be concurrent with any fast track works package procurements and associated permitting and approvals requirements.
- Attend the site(s) as often as required to review HSSE, logistics and progress against the programme.
- Produce formal reports on project progress measured against the baseline and milestone dates and agreed project-wide KPI’s.
- Prepare weekly, monthly and ad-hoc reports on project progress for the Employer’s representative, prepare and conduct presentations as required.
- Manage and administer the relevant contracts affording appropriate protection of the client’s interests.
- Manage the timely issuance of company invoices and receipts against the agreed contract.

**Qualifications**:
Essential
- Degree in architecture, engineering, construction management or an equivalent technical qualification
- Electricity sector (renewables, transmission and decarbonisation) experience.
- Minimum 5 - 15 years Project Management experience

Desirable
- Recognised Project Management Qualification
- Membership or chartership of a recognised professional industry body, such as RICS

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