Project Controls Manager | Defence & Infrastructure

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. 

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We are looking for three experienced Project Controls Managers to join our team in Adelaide. Each role will manage the project controls function within a smaller team on a critical infrastructure program as part of a nationally significant endeavour.

As a Project Controls Manager, you will:

• Lead a small team of Project Controls Specialists.
• Provide technical oversight across cost, schedule, risk, and reporting functions.
• Collaborate closely with the Project Lead and client-side Project Manager for your precinct.
• Integrate precinct-level project controls data into the broader program-wide controls system.
• Strengthen project controls capability across the wider team.

To be successful in your application, you will need:

• Australian Citizenship and the ability to obtain (or currently hold) an Australian Security Clearance.
• Proven experience in a consultancy environment, ideally on defence or major infrastructure projects.
• Strong proficiency with project controls software across cost, schedule, and risk domains.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to produce high-quality reports and bid documentation.

We're looking for people who are:

• Friendly, approachable, and relationship focused.
• Strong communicators who can clearly present complex data and insights.

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.

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