PMO Lead

Turner & Townsend

  • Edinburgh
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 16 days ago
Company DescriptionTurner & 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:Job DescriptionWe are currently looking to recruit a PMO Lead (Director) within our Glasgow Project Controls Team. As PMO Lead, we are looking for you to possess proven infrastructure experience to lead major defence programmes in Scotland If you're interested in working with one of the UK's leading consultancy providers across infrastructure, then we're keen to discuss this exciting opportunity with you.You'll be responsible for:
  • Leading a PMO, focusing on driving Controls and Performance business transformation efforts around effective delivery at pace to ensure client needs are realised.
  • Overseeing and managing all PMO capabilities, namely:
  • Planning and Scheduling
  • Risk Management
  • Cost Control
  • Change Management
  • Reporting Management
  • Baseline Management
  • Building and sustaining PMO capability, including Resource Management, Controls and Performance and Risk and Governance.
  • Bringing together a clearly defined and integrated PMO, ensuring effective alignment between the defined operating model with customer requirements.
  • Ensuring the overall integration and deconfliction of Programme and Project works, addressing issues when they arise between delivery activities while determining priorities based on client objectives.
  • Continuous development of people, systems, tools, processes, and assurance that provide exemplar Governance and standards associated with the PMO functions across all Programmes and Projects.
  • Embedding and refining the defined processes, procedures, ways of working, systems and tools to ensure compliance with Portfolio strategy, best practice, consistency, and standardisation.
  • Efficient and effective management reporting across the Portfolio.
Qualifications
  • Important: Before applying, due to the sensitive nature of these projects, you must be a SOLE UK National who is able to achieve and maintain UK MoD Security Clearance (SC).
Many of the clients and projects we support are subject to MoD security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). * Experience in performing, monitoring, and reviewing planning and scheduling functions, which include schedule development, control, and analysis, in the field and the home office
  • Proven experience within the infrastructure sector
  • Skilled in oral and written communication
  • Proficiency with PC operating systems, with proficiency in several basic software applications.
  • Proficiency with multiple discipline specific software applications such as Primavera (P6) and Microsoft Office Applications, for example Intermediate level of knowledge of engineering, procurement, contracts, construction, and start-up work processes.
  • Knowledge of engineering and construction management.
Additional InformationOur 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.Please find out more about us at#LI-FL1SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.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 of Turner & Townsend and are not 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.

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