Company Description
Turner & 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: www.turnerandtownsend.com
Job Description
- Establish and lead a multidisciplinary design team responsible for delivering integrated design solutions across all project facilities.
- Collaborate closely with the Process and Engineering teams to ensure a coordinated and aligned design approach.
- Serve as the primary interface with engineering partners, managing design expectations, deliverables, and technical alignment.
- Coordinate and facilitate BIM/model reviews, including defining review areas, managing schedules, overseeing clash detection, and ensuring design quality.
- Support the development of detailed project schedules and provide input into project cost estimates.
- Partner with Quality teams to ensure appropriate quality standards are embedded within design deliverables.
- Ensure EHS&S considerations are incorporated into designs, focusing on constructability, commissioning, operability, and maintainability.
- Implement systems and processes to monitor design quality, progress, and performance KPIs.
- Review and approve critical design elements and engineering deliverables.
- Lead engineering initiatives to identify cost optimization opportunities, schedule improvements, and risk mitigation measures.
- Provide engineering input into procurement and contracting strategies, including modularization, skid-mounted systems, and off-site fabrication approaches.
- Manage the transition of design activities between engineering teams and project execution teams to ensure continuity and consistency.
- Provide field engineering support during the construction phase, ensuring installations are completed in accordance with approved designs, specifications, and quality standards.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related discipline.
- Minimum 15 years of experience in engineering, design, or project delivery within large-scale capital projects.
- Proven experience in a senior leadership role managing multidisciplinary engineering and design teams.
- Demonstrated track record delivering complex projects from design through construction, commissioning, and startup.
- Strong experience in stakeholder management, including coordination of consultants, contractors, and project teams.
- Experience managing engineering and design activities across multiple locations and teams.
- Strong understanding of project planning, cost control, risk management, quality, and safety requirements.
- Ability to identify and implement value engineering, cost-saving, and schedule optimization opportunities.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills.
- Willingness to travel as required to support project execution and stakeholder engagement.
- Flexibility to work across different project phases and locations as business needs evolve.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within highly regulated industries such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, semiconductor, advanced manufacturing, or similar environments.
- Experience on greenfield and large-scale capital investment projects.
- Familiarity with BIM/3D design coordination and multidisciplinary engineering integration.
- Knowledge of construction support, commissioning, and operational readiness activities.
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.
Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/
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