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About the Role
Establish and lead a multidisciplinary design team responsible for delivering integrated design solutions across all project facilities. Collaborate closely with 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
- 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.
Skills
- Engineering
- Design
- Project Delivery
- Leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Planning
- Cost Control
- Risk Management
- Quality Assurance
- Safety Management
- Value Engineering
- BIM/3D Design Coordination
- Construction Support
- Commissioning
- Operational Readiness
Experience Level
- Minimum 15 years of experience
- Senior leadership role
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related discipline
Benefits
- Great place to work
- Opportunity and voice to affect change
- Support for work-life balance
- Healthy, productive and flexible working environment
About the Company
- 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
- Our inspired people share our vision and mission.
- Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/ #LI-CY1
- Join our social media conversations for more information about Turner & Townsend and our exciting future projects: Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn
Equal Opportunity
- 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.