Company Description
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.
Turner & Townsend’s Energy & Natural Resources team is one of the leading consultancies and is working on the largest projects across South Australia. We have an exciting role for a Procurement Officer to join our growing Energy & Natural Resources.
Job Description
Turner & Townsend will give you the opportunity to work with world class clients on cutting edge projects and to build a successful career with a company that will offer the highest levels of support at every stage.
We work on projects of all sizes from one-off developments to mega-programmes, from planning the future development across large Natural Resources projects to site based construction of individual projects, while helping the largest companies in the world. We cover everything from leading teams, planning works, tracking progress and business case delivery to bringing assets into use.

To be successful in this role:

• Provide a role in a client procurement team responsible for procuring multi-million dollars of packages on a construction project.
• Strong contract knowledge from initial set up to managing variations and claims.
• Contract formation, contract administration, contract negotiations and claims support.
• Interfacing with the client and other consultants at all project stages.
• Manage quotes, purchase orders, the tender process delivery and tender analysis.
• Support client’s organisation and senior management in improving their capacity to develop and deliver major projects and programs efficiently and effectively.
• Under the direction of the Manager, contribute to the business success of the Organisation by assisting in the areas of submissions, fee bidding, and financial management and reporting, budgeting, and business planning.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Full working rights and be currently in Australia.
• Previous experience in a Purchasing Officer type role
• Professionally qualified in one of the following fields: procurement, construction, cost management, engineering or project management.
• Commercial Management experience preferably gained within the construction environment or Natural Resources.
• A strong and demonstrable experience in providing procurement and contract administration advice and an ability to manage and report directly into the client and their key stakeholder group at both project and programme level.
• Experience of working within a Client focused consultancy environment.
• Advanced Microsoft Office Suite skills– MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work with staff at all levels.
• Excellent verbal and written English with excellent report writing skills.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to multitask.
• Strong time management skills, quick thinking and resilience to deal with a fast paced environment.
• Ability to demonstrate attention to detail
• Team player with the ability to work with minimal supervision
• Highly motivated and driven with a passion for delivering value and excellence to your clients.
  Additional Information
  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.
  Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/
  

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• Provide a role in a client procurement team responsible for procuring multi-million dollars of packages on a construction project.
• Strong contract knowledge from initial set up to managing variations and claims.
• Contract formation, contract administration, contract negotiations and claims support.
• Interfacing with the client and other consultants at all project stages.
• Manage quotes, purchase orders, the tender process delivery and tender analysis.
• Support client’s organisation and senior management in improving their capacity to develop and deliver major projects and programs efficiently and effectively.
• Under the direction of the Manager, contribute to the business success of the Organisation by assisting in the areas of submissions, fee bidding, and financial management and reporting, budgeting, and business planning