Energy Project Manager
Turner & Townsend · Malmö, Europe, Sweden
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As our presence across the Nordics continues to grow rapidly, we are investing in building a best-in-class Project Management team to support an expanding portfolio of global clients. This is an exciting time to join our business, offering the opportunity to play a key role in our growth, influence how we deliver projects across the region, and contribute to the success of some of the world's leading organisations.
Turner & Townsend is recruiting a Project Manager to join the Nordics Principal Delivery Team, embedded on a manufacturing and storage site in Sweden (Malmo). The role supports the delivery of energy efficiency, sustainability and facility improvement projects and acts as a key on-site point of contact for the client.
Contract: Confidential
Reports to: Country Projects Lead (part of the Nordics Principal Delivery Team)
Location: Malmö, Sweden (on-site, embedded with client)
Job Purpose
The purpose of the role is to:
- Identify, develop and deliver a portfolio of energy saving projects that enable the client to meet its energy and carbon reduction targets.
- Have full accountability and responsibility for the management and delivery of project works on the client's site.
- Become a trusted adviser to site leadership by turning opportunities into approved, funded and delivered projects.
General Activities
- Identify and prioritise energy saving opportunities across the site's process, utilities, building services and storage areas (for example LED lighting upgrades, heat pump installations, heat recovery, utility optimisation and wider decarbonisation initiatives).
- Develop a robust business case for each opportunity, including capital cost, energy and carbon savings, payback and ROI, supported by energy audits, metering data and technical input.
- Present business cases and recommendations to client senior stakeholders and decision makers to secure approval and funding.
- Work with designers, engineers and contractors to define and document the scope of works.
- Develop and understand the full scope of works in line with the approved business case, within agreed budget requirements.
- Manage, run and draw up tenders on behalf of the client as required, and carry out full tender analysis of contractor returns.
- Identify, reduce and manage all statutory, commercial and operational risks associated with each project.
- Design and develop pre-construction and construction phase delivery programmes.
- Ensure Turner & Townsend and client HSE practices and processes are fully embedded in each project.
- Ensure full compliance with project management policies and procedures and with local regulations and site standards.
- Manage the day-to-day operational aspects of each project end to end, from concept through design, procurement, installation, commissioning and handover.
- Work closely with relevant stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient implementation of projects with minimal disruption to production.
- Provide timely monthly reports on progress, financial performance and forecast versus realised savings to the Country Projects Lead in an agreed format.
Business Development
- Identify and develop a short, medium and long-term pipeline of energy saving project opportunities across the site.
- Leverage opportunities through visibility and presence on site, and by sharing results and case studies with site leadership.
- Utilise government energy initiatives to help the client gain financial support where available.
Building Relationships
- Build strong, effective working relationships with the client and site teams, including engineering, EHS, operations and sustainability.
- Build a pipeline of supply partners with the correct approvals in conjunction with the central procurement team.
Commercial Awareness
- Full accountability for the budget and financial control of each project.
- Analyse variances and initiate corrective actions.
- Value all contractor accounts and review applications for payment; mutually agree payment schedules to the benefit of the project and the client.
- Ensure projects are commercially viable and satisfy the commercial terms of the contract.
The Project Process
- Define and understand the scope of work to meet the client's specification.
- Engage contractors under the correct commercial terms.
- Appraise all contractor risk assessments and method statements to make sure they are suitable and sufficient.
- Be in attendance on site for the works, including any out-of-hours requirements such as planned shutdown windows.
- Set up HSE processes and make sure they are monitored.
- Ensure all variations to the works are captured, costed and claimed for.
- Make sure all O&M manuals are complete and available prior to practical completion.
- Verify energy and carbon savings after completion, and close out all final accounts with both the client and the supply chain.
Decision Making / Budgetary Control
The post holder has responsibility and financial control of the projects within their control, within the limits of delegated authority agreed with Turner & Townsend and the client.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- Manages third-party contractors, consultants and other project delivery resources.
- May mentor and coach junior team members and models behaviours consistent with the company's values.
Person Specification
Skills
- Commercial awareness and strong financial acumen, including the ability to build and defend a business case.
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills.
- Ability to present with confidence to senior client stakeholders.
- Ability to deliver to deadlines.
- Fluent in Swedish an English
- Intermediate skills with Microsoft Office Suite including MS Project.
- Ability to read and understand technical and engineering drawings.
Knowledge
- Up-to-date knowledge of the construction and industrial services market.
- Fully competent with project management methodology.
- Strong technical understanding of mechanical and electrical engineering and energy systems (for example heat pumps, heat recovery, compressed air, HVAC, lighting and controls).
- Knowledge of financial appraisal, including payback, ROI, NPV and lifecycle costing.
- Broad understanding of Swedish construction health and safety and work environment legislation, and of Swedish and EU energy efficiency and sustainability requirements.
- Knowledge of construction contracts (for example Swedish AB 04 / ABT 06 or equivalent).
Experience
- Minimum of 5 years' proven project management experience in an M&E, energy, construction or critical environment.
- Proven experience delivering energy efficiency or decarbonisation projects in manufacturing or industrial locations, including live operational environments.
- Proven experience of managing project budgets and financial performance.
- Demonstrable evidence of having managed third-party teams.
- 8-10+ years' project management experience in construction, fit-out, M&E, FM, or capital delivery.
- Proven Principal Contractor experience with strong commercial and financial acumen.
- Excellent client-facing, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
- Degree in Project Management, Construction, Engineering, or related discipline.
- Professional qualification: PMP, PRINCE2, APM PMQ, or equivalent.
- IOSH Managing Safely and/or SMSTS; strong CDM knowledge.
- Desirable: NEBOSH, Chartered status (MRICS, MCIOB, MAPM, CEng), or sustainability qualifications.
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