Project Manager - Design / Technical (Construction) at Turner & Townsend in Dublin, Europe, Ireland

Job description

• Project Manager – Technical (front-end design, scope and definition)
• The Project Manager will act as the Contracting Entity’s representative, supporting the Technical Delivery Manager. Supporting projects and programmes from their early-stage scope and design definition establishment through to successful completion assisting and guiding their development and progression.
• This is a front-end focused role, with a strong emphasis on project initiation, interpreting functional briefs, and technical scope technical definition, ensuring projects are set up effectively from the outset and aligned with programme and organisational and contractual objectives.
• The Role supports others who are responsible for delivering projects to time, budget, and specification, ensuring all project goals are achieved in line with the Contracting Entity’s requirements and overall strategic objectives.

Responsibilities

• Front-end project leadership (key focus)
• Lead and / or support the early stages of projects, including:
• Development of Functional Briefs into Technical Scopes
• Supporting scope writing aligned to RIAI / RIBA workflows and H&S regulations and aviation directives
• Defining project structure, supporting delivery approach, and supporting governance
• Understand how projects evolve across the lifecycle and embed best practice processes from the outset
• Ensure clarity and alignment across internal stakeholders before project mobilisation
• Provide induction training to Infrastructure new starts
• Programme requirements, standards & performance
• Develop and manage the key documents e.g. Project Execution Plan, Stakeholder Management Plan and others
• Ensure alignment with internal standards, delivery frameworks, and governance
• Build strong working relationships with the key stakeholders and wider external teams
• Oversee Technical Delivery Sharepoint editing and updates
• Project management
• Coordinate and support all project lifecycle stages
• Manage interfaces across internal and external stakeholders
• Maintain RACI chart and ensure accountability across teams
• Coordinate and engage design consultant's frameworks and other providers
• Lead design review processes and communicate approvals
• Maintain and support functional and controls teams including project risk registers
• Participating in change control processes
• Ensure effective communication and information flow across all stakeholders
• Identify and implement organisational process and workflow improvements
• Participating in Lessons Learnt activities
• Contract administration
• Demonstrate a broad understanding of NEC PSC contracts and Project Design Assurance activities
• Manage and facilitate Technical Scope Reviews process on behalf of the Technical Delivery Manager
• Support organisational NEC contract processes, including programme reviews and acceptance
• Act in the spirit of mutual trust and collaboration
• Ensure contract compliance
• Stakeholder Management
• Internal teams (Asset Management, Operations, etc.)
• Design Consultants, and external partners
• Build strong relationships and ensure effective cross-functional collaboration

Requirements

• Candidate profile
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in construction / infrastructure project delivery
• Strong understanding of project delivery in Ireland
• Experience on front-end project stages (scope, initiation, statutory planning)
• Knowledge of the full project lifecycle
• Demonstrated capability in scope writing and support to define the briefing processes
• Highly proactive and forward-thinking
• Strong problem solver with a continuous improvement mindset
• Confident communicator with strong stakeholder engagement skills
• Comfortable operating in complex, fast-paced environments
• Able to anticipate challenges and drive solutions early in the project lifecycle
• RIAI / RIBA methodologies and associated workflows
• Ireland’s Health & Safety regulations, including PSDP services
• Commercial awareness and acumen
• Background in Architecture or Engineering or associated experience preferred
• Strong proficiency in MS Office Suite
• Work proactively and reactively, anticipating issues
• Improve processes and workflows
• Manage multiple stakeholders effectively
• Experience setting up project workflows, templates, and governance structures
• Must be able to provide 5-year address history (Garda vetting, clearance requirement)
• Flexible and adaptable approach to working in a dynamic project environment
• Strong attention to detail with a solution-oriented mindset
• Aviation or airport project experience
• Experience working in live operational environments (e.g. airports)
• Experience acting as a client-side project manager
• Comfortable working at pace and in a dynamic environment
• Knowledge of SharePoint editing and publishing

Skills

Required

• Strong proficiency in MS Office Suite

Preferred

• Aviation or airport project experience

Benefits

• Healthcare Scheme
• Competitive remuneration and attractive range of benefits
• 8% Pension
• 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 people share our Purpose and Values. Turner & Townsend provides a great place to work, where everyone can make change happen and influence a better world.
• We champion our people to succeed in both work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive, and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.