Contracts & Procurement Specialist (Fifo) - Natural

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 118 offices 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.

The Turner & Townsend family is looking for a **Contracts and Procurements specialist (FIFO)** to join our growing Contract Services team. The role is responsible for providing commercial assistance, procurement and contracts advice.

**Job Description**:
Turner & Townsend will give you the opportunity to work with world class clients on cutting edge projects and to build a successful career with a company that will offer the highest levels of support at every stage.

We work on projects of all sizes from one-off developments to mega-programmes, from planning the future development across large Natural Resources projects to site based construction of individual projects, while helping the largest companies in the world. We cover everything from leading teams, planning works, tracking progress and business case delivery to bringing assets into use.

To be successful in this role:

- Provide a leading role in a client procurement team responsible for procuring multi-million dollar packages on a mega construction project.
- Strong contract knowledge from initial set up to managing variations and claims.
- Contract formation, contract administration, contract negotiations and claims support.
- Interfacing with the client and other consultants at all project stages.
- Manage quotes, purchase orders, the tender process delivery and tender analysis.
- Provide and drive the direction of the strategic, operational and technical diagnosis of the client needs.
- Support client’s organisation and senior management in improving their capacity to develop and deliver major projects and programs efficiently and effectively.

**Qualifications**:

- Professionally qualified in one of the following fields: construction, cost management, engineering or project management.
- Commercial Management experience preferably gained within the construction environment or Natural Resources.
- A strong and demonstrable experience in providing procurement and contract administration advice and an ability to manage and report directly into the client and their key stakeholder group at both project and programme level.
- Advanced Microsoft Office Suite skills
- MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work with staff at all levels
- Excellent verbal and written English with excellent report writing skills.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to multitask.
- Strong time management skills, quick thinking and resilience to deal with a fast paced environment.

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._

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