Senior Project Manager (Energy Utilities)

Senior Project Manager (Energy Utilities)

• Full-time
• Department: Infrastructure
Who is Turner & Townsend? All over the world people are using buildings, infrastructure, and assets we helped to deliver. It could be the hospital they work in, the railway they travel on every day, the fuel that powers their car or the data centre they depend on at work. For more than 75 years we’ve been helping to deliver transformational programmes across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors, making a difference to people’s lives and ensuring a return on investment for our clients and their investors. Our purpose: Transforming performance for a green, inclusive, and productive world. The world is changing and we have a responsibility to support that change, helping drive it and be part of it. Through the commitment, capability and care our team brings, we build trust between clients, suppliers, governments and society. Delivering better outcomes that have a positive impact on the world around us. We work smarter to face the challenges of the future; bringing the clarity that helps teams realise their full potential across the real estate, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. It’s how we’ve made the difference for more than 75 years. Our values: Love a challenge: We love a challenge and we work hard to make change happen and see things through. We don’t stand still, challenging ourselves and others to do better every day. And we are trusted to do the right thing, raising standards all the time. Stronger together: We’re stronger together by connecting people in diverse teams, so that we can all collaborate to deliver our best work. We focus on what matters and use our influence to build a better world for everyone. Bring out the best in everyone: We bring out the best in everyone. We help each other to make the most of our potential, always learning from our experience. We treat each other with care and respect and make time to give everyone a voice. We are now seeking a Senior Project Manager to join us and play a key role assisting our clients in the transition to a low carbon energy future.The role will involve working in a dynamic and fast paced organisation and will afford the candidate the opportunity to work on strategic and innovative projects across all stages of delivery from concept to design and construction. The candidate should have a strong contract and project management background with a proven track record of delivering large scale complex infrastructure projects through the regulatory, design, procurement and construction stages. Duties and Responsibilities
• Responsibilities will include managing and delivering a diverse portfolio of projects, predominantly in the energy/utilities sector.
• Ability to adapt quickly to changing project and business requirements, with a strong technical ability to understand and digest technical information.
• Identifying and managing internal and external project Stakeholders, ensuring regular and timely communications at all levels;
• Ability to work collaboratively with customers and stakeholders across all project stages;
• Ability to analyse issues, exercising judgement to make decisions and drive delivery of large infrastructure projects;
• Preparing and maintaining project documentation, including Risk Register, Issue Register, Daily Log, Project schedules, Project Budgets and Governance approvals;
• Ensuring that appropriate project controls are in place within the team having regard to budgets, schedule, scope, quality risk and other performance indicators.
• Preparing and updating formal project progress reports such as monthly reports including financial, budget and project schedule reporting;
• Reporting and presenting on project delivery to Senior Management Team and Board Executives.
• Leading and motivating project team members to ensure a sense of team and a clear understanding of goals and objectives;
• Demonstrate the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly collaborative work environment;
• Demonstrate enthusiasm to drive development and delivery of large infrastructure projects and programmes of work.
• You will have 10+ years relevant experience preferably with a construction / energy / engineering background.
• Power system industry expertise, utilities / construction experience along with the ability to adapt, innovate and meet changing demands;
• Knowledge of the industry, environment and context, experience working within a similar regulated utility environment;
• Excellent communication and written skills with the ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience;
• Commercial awareness with the ability to make decisions and recommendations in all aspects of project implementation;
• Excellent organisational and communication skills;
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a proven ability to work effectively as part of a team;
• Recognised accredited Project Management Professional (PMP) Qualification.
• Recognised qualification in energy efficiency / renewable energy.
• Experience delivering renewable energy projects either onshore or offshore
• Understanding the operation and development of electricity transmission networks.
What we offer you:
• Full time
• Competitive remuneration and attractive range of benefits
• 25 days Annual leave (23 days + 2 company days)
• Opportunity to work on impactful and innovative projects
• Career development opportunities both in Ireland and globally
• Opportunity to work with a diverse group of talented and collaborative colleagues
Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. 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. Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: It is strictly against Turner & Townsend policy for candidates to pay any fee in relation to our recruitment process. No recruitment agency working with Turner & Townsend will ask candidates to pay a fee at any time. Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property ofTurner & Townsend and arenot subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team,to submit candidates for review. #J-18808-Ljbffr