Associate Director Contract Services

2 weeks ago


Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Turner & Townsend Full time
  • Full-time
  • Department: Energy and natural resources
Company Description

Are you interested in working on some of the world's most exciting projects, with some of the world's leading businesses?

At Turner & Townsend we're passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 118offices and 47 countries worldwide.

At Turner & Townsend, we offer a wide variety of benefits to our staff to help them inside or outside of the work. We offer true work life balance, working from home arrangements,team events and much more.

We are currently looking for anAssociate Directorto join our growing Contract Services team in Brisbane, leading our claims and disputes function. This leadership role is responsible for providing claims analysis assistance across our Infrastructure and Natural Resource clients. The Contract Services team provide procurement, commercial strategy, Expert Witness and contract claims advice to the largest clients across the country.

Job Description

We are currently seeking to appoint anAssociate Director, Claims & Disputes. We're keen to grow our Claims & Disputes business unit in Australia, particularly our Expert delivery requirements, leading on the delivery of expert appointments in Quantum, Forensic Planning and all forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR). This role will have a strong working history in the construction industry, with noted leadership and appointments for expertise in either Quantum, Forensic Planning or for managing ADR to support our team, secured workload and strong pipeline of opportunities.

Requirements:

  • Natural leader in both technical and management capacity, strong experience in expert testimony across a diverse portfolio of project type.
  • Natural approach to business development and excellent commercial acumen.
  • The ability to lead and develop expert service offerings
  • Confident and able to lead projects in own right, but when necessary to work as part of a team.
  • Strong knowledge across major standard forms of construction contracts and base knowledge of contract forms that may be applied in construction.
  • A track record of delivering Expert appointments in own right, with demonstration of positive outcomes
  • Experience of providing consultancy services on 'live' major projects/programmes.
  • Robust and methodical analytical skills.
  • Broad experience and exposure in a diverse range of sectors.
  • A proven background in driving new and existing business development opportunities.
  • A natural gravitas in dealings with clients, with a 'making the difference' approach.
  • Able to prepare and manage bid proposals and work closely alongside Senior Management in the wider Turner & Townsend team.
  • Be willing and able to lead a project and manage personnel in delivering major commissions.
  • First class written and verbal communication skills.
  • Enthusiastic, self-driven, determined, and thorough in approach.
  • Capable of carrying out independent study, analysis and interpretation then presenting conclusions in a clear and concise manner.
Qualifications

Qualifications

  • Professionally qualified in construction based accreditation
  • Further educated in Construction Law or similar
  • 15+ years of experience.
  • Ability to demonstrate attention to detail.
  • Team player with the ability to work autonomously.
  • Excellent command of written and spoken English with excellent report and bid writing skills;
  • Highly motivated and passionate individual, showing a clear ability to deliver great outcomes for clients.
Additional Information

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.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV's that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV's will be treated as a direct application.

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.

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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.

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