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. 

Due to huge growth of our team, we are seeking a Director to lead our Clean Energy and Decarbonisation projects. Due to working with the largest Natural Resources and Renewable clients across the country, we are looking for someone with 15+ years experience who has experience advising on large projects and building teams.   

Turner & Townsend is expanding our clean energy and decarbonisation business with the ambition of becoming the sector's pre-eminent project development and delivery services. Turner & Townsend are seeking the expand our senior management team to meet the market needs in the renewables sector in Australia and New Zealand. The role is to be based in Sydney, operating at either Director / Project Director level depending on the level of experience.

Management:

• Developing strategic partnerships with key clients across Australia and globally
• Business development to expand existing client base through growth of client base and services
• Supporting growing sector capability and capacity across Turner & Townsend
• Whilst the role covers all renewables sub-sectors, hydrogen, decarbonisation and HV experience will be considered strongly.
• Key knowledge areas include:
  • Technical
  • OEM’s within the sector
  • Industry knowledge
  • Legislative knowledge
  • Established relationships at client and supply chain level.

Service Delivery

• Advising clients at a strategic level project initiation, development stages through to FID, including providing advice on the different approaches that can be adopted in order to successfully achieve the client’s overall objectives in the renewables sector. Ability to advise clients in the following key success areas will be highly regarded, including:
  • Approvals (legislative, commercial, environmental, JV, funding and the like)
  • Management of funding process though both banks and industry incentive schemes
  • Land access and acquisition matters
  • Grid connections
  • Establishment of PPA’s
  • Managing of grid connections
  • ESG related areas
  • Supply chain engagement
  • Stakeholder management
• Managing teams providing services in the development and execution phase
• Establishing effective project governance, processes and systems with our clients across their portfolios and projects
• Leading the establishment of the overall success criteria for the project, including time, cost, technical and performance parameters
• Managing the flow of project information between the team and the client, through regular meetings and written communications;
• Ensuring the production of formal project progress and other reports; and
• Taking a leading role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages.

• The ideal candidates are professionally qualified in one of the following fields: project management, environmental/sustainability, commercial or engineering. Electrical / HV knowledge will be recognised strongly.
• 15+ years of experience with at least 5 years in the Clean Energy and Decarbonisation industry.
• Experience in business development and growing brands through strong client relationships.
• A thorough understanding of the total project life cycle, from project conception stage, through all of the operational stages to completion and post-project review.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of the main project management concepts, tools, and techniques.
• Good communication skills and ability to manage a team and control multiple projects/client commissions.

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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