Project Director at Turner & Townsend

Turner & Townsend is a leading independent professional services company specializing in programme management, project management, cost management and consulting across the property, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. With 108 offices in 45 countries, we draw on our extensive global and industry experience to manage risk while maximizing value and performance during the construction and operation of our clients’ assets. We are an Equal opportunity employer who will ensure accommodations are available for applicants with disabilities upon request.

Turner & Townsend is a quality driven, international construction and management consultancy recognised for the value and innovation we bring to every commission we undertake.  We are looking for a Project Manager in Johannesburg who is self-motivated and driven by the goal of establishing Turner & Townsend as the #1 Consultancy.  Reporting to the head of the business unit the individual will be responsible for delivering projects, securing new and maintaining existing clients and promoting the values of Turner & Townsend.

Our people are the key to our success and are our most important asset. As Project Manager you will join our Johannesburg Infrastructure team to provide services that help our clients devise strategies to deliver successful business solutions prior to sanction, achieve confidence around project delivery, ensure projects are effectively managed & controlled and facilitate the capture and transfer of knowledge

• • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Leading cross-discipline teams of project controls professionals to deliver effective, consistent, assured and value-adding project controls services to our clients across diverse and complex programmes to support and drive delivery. 
  • Driving continuous improvement in project controls processes to create efficiency and increasing benefits to our clients.   
  • Defining and implementing project controls approaches across the project, programme and portfolio levels allowing effective decision making at all levels.   
  • Defining and implementing effective governance and assurance processes around project controls products. 
  • Working with clients to develop relevant breakdown structure and support scope definitions.   
  • Defining scaled, tailored, and integrated approaches for project controls and documenting these (for example in a Project Control System Definition).  
  • Defining the scope through the identification and management of exclusions, assumptions, interfaces, and dependencies, and coordinate the scope’s decomposition. 
  • Working with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline and manage the change control process. 
• Working with Project and Commercial Management to establish the Supplier Project Controls contract requirements, and then collaborating with suppliers to integrate and analyze their performance data. 
• Ensuring scope, cost, risk and schedule integration and alignment, and analyze performance data to provide delivery insight and facilitate delivery decisions.  

Corporate objectives 

• Develop and implement business development strategies, pursuing key project opportunities, new business targets, and clients. 
• Develop and implement project set-up and delivery strategies. 
• Providing oversight, assurance and problem solving on projects as required. 
• Building our proposition and delivery capability 
• Developing and maintaining senior / executive level relationships with clients and industry peers 
• Project execution assurance 
• Work closely with, and oversee the performance of, existing operational Project and Cost Management teams. 
• Coordinate with project team leaders on project negotiations and execution. 
• Assuring the quality, accuracy, and integrity of the Project Controls Team’s output.    

Leadership 

• Undertaking line management activities including career development and performance management.   

• Degree or Post-graduate qualification in relevant field 
• 10 years of relevant Project Management working experience 

The Project Director will oversee the Project programme through the following scope of work.

• Lead the programme, including full accountability for workstream planning, development and execution.
• Lead and manage workstream members to deliver workstream deliverables on time and on-budget.
• Liaise regularly with workstream and project team workstream leaders to track and monitor progress against plan, budget and resources. Understanding any market impacts and interdependencies of other workstreams and ensure appropriate communication with stakeholders.
• Identify necessary market processes, controls, and procedures to ensure that the change programme can be managed effectively.
• Support market stakeholders and workstream leaders to ensure all market requirements are understood and integrated into the broader project plan at the appropriate place to ensure overall continuity of supply across the project.
• Provide support and challenge to all workstream and project team members to help identify key dependencies and interdependencies and ensure robustness of project plans.
• Represent the Project at regular Steering Committee Meetings. Prepare and circulate regular updates and reports on progress, as the project demands
• Main a live and regularly updated risk register, with a range of mitigating actions.
• Maintain a "stakeholder map" of key governmental and regulatory contacts, and have a contact plan in place, including helpful contacts in th event of any issues developing.