Assistant Project Manager

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com

Job Description

The Assistant Project Manager will report to the Turner & Townsend Senior or Lead Project Manager internally and the client representative at a project level. The incumbent will be based in Abu Dhabi and may be required to travel across the UAE region.

The Assistant Project Manager will operate in a collaborative supporting team environment, 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 precontract and post contract delivery experience. You will show an understanding of management and possess interpersonal skills and a core technical skillset, an understanding of construction with commercial and contractual awareness.

As a smart and enthusiastic Assistant Project Manager you will understand the complexities of a large-scale building/infrastructure project.

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 knowledge of the end-to-end project delivery lifecycle inclusive of design, procurement, permitting, construction and handover processes.

Your success in delivering building projects will allow you to execute the following key responsibilities as Assistant Project Manager. 

• Support the management of 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 organization structures of the parties and recommend alignment measures.
• Monitor 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.
• Participate in weekly technical and progress meetings relating to the services and works.
• Participate in client stage gateway reviews and attainment of conditions precedent to such approvals.
• Support 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.
• Support the preparation of formal reports on project progress measured against the baseline and milestone dates and agreed project-wide KPI’s.
•  Support the preparation of weekly, monthly and ad-hoc reports on project progress for the Employer’s representative, prepare and conduct presentations as required.
• Support the management and administration of the relevant contracts affording appropriate protection of the client’s interests.
• Support the preparation and timely issuance of company invoices and receipts against the agreed contract.

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in architecture, engineering, construction management or an equivalent technical qualification
• Buildings/Infrastructure sector experience
• Minimum 5 - 10 years Project Management experience

Desirable

• Experience of working in the Middle East
• Recognized Project Management Qualification                                              
• Membership or chartership of a recognized professional industry body, such as RICS

Additional Information

Company Vision:

Our vision is to be the leading capital programmes professional service provider operating across property, infrastructure and natural resources.

In 2010 Turner & Townsend began a journey to grow the company on a global scale across our three core sectors. Our vision to excel has seen us climb from 2,500 staff in 63 offices across 28 countries, in 2010, to 6,800 in 110 offices across 45 countries in 2020.

Turner & Townsend recognise the fact that our employees are the key to our future growth. We invest heavily in the training, development and regular appraisal of our people: by managing each employee’s career aspirations and by promoting from within at every opportunity, we believe we have created a stimulating, challenging and exciting working environment for our staff.

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

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