Mechanical Project Manager

Job DescriptionTurner & 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.
Position SummaryThe Project Manager is accountable for the successful delivery of large capital projects in the Energy & Natural Resources sector, including mining and minerals. The role requires strong leadership, disciplined project delivery capability, and the ability to operate independently in complex environments. Candidates with controls experience are well suited where they demonstrate clear project delivery capability and client facing leadership.
The Project Manager serves as the primary client interface and leads multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, predictable, and commercially successful outcomes.
Responsibilities
Lead the delivery of capital projects of varying size and complexity, ensuring scope, schedule, cost, and quality objectives are achieved.
Build, manage, and motivate multidisciplinary teams across engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness.
Manage projects through initiation, planning, design, procurement, execution, commissioning, and close‑out with full accountability for delivery performance.
Apply structured governance frameworks and stage gate processes to ensure predictable performance and compliance with contractual and regulatory requirements.
Oversee contract administration, scope control, change management, risk mitigation, and commercial performance.
Serve as the primary client interface, build strong relationships, influence decision‑making, and manage competing priorities.
Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, maintain risk registers, and escalation issues with recommended actions.
Provide clear and concise reporting on progress, risks, commercial status, and performance to internal and external stakeholders.
Ability to Manage multiple concurrent projects or consulting commissions while maintaining quality, commercial targets, and client satisfaction.
Qualifications
7+ years of project management experience in Energy and Natural Resources, mining, or major infrastructure, with direct accountability for project delivery and client outcomes.
Experience delivering mining and minerals projects.
Full lifecycle project delivery experience, including initiation, planning, design, procurement, execution, commissioning, and close‑out.
Strong project controls capability in cost management, scheduling, estimating, risk management, change control, forecasting, or reporting.
Experience working within structured stage gate frameworks
Strong commercial acumen, including contract administration, scope management, change control, and risk mitigation.
Excellent client and stakeholder management skills with the ability to establish credibility, influence decisions, and manage complex interfaces.
Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects while balancing delivery, commercial performance, and quality.
High accountability and leadership, capable of operating independently and driving teams toward safe, predictable, high‑quality outcomes.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Environmental Sciences, Business, or related discipline.
Additional InformationThe base salary range for this full-time role is $85000 - $135000 per year. Ranges are determined by role and level and represent a good faith effort to provide a fair and equitable salary. This range is a reflection of base salary only, not of a total compensation package. Please note Turner & Townsend reserves the right to pay more or less than the posted range, depending on candidate’s experience and qualifications.
What's in it for you...
100% covered health and dental benefits for you and your dependents (including paramedical services)
Health spending account, to top up expenses not covered in the benefits program
RRSP option with company matching
Annual learning and development budget
Access to a range of online learning tools, and support for career development and growth
Coverage of one professional membership or license fee per year, if directly related to your role
We believe in work-life balance, so you can recharge and take care of what matters most with vacation, flex and sick days
A flexible, hybrid work approach that allows colleagues to find balance between their professional and personal lives
Commitment to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture that promotes a sense of belonging
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.
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