Associate Director - FM Operational Readiness

Turner & Townsend
Sheffield
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Executive & General ManagementEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Leadership","Stakeholder management","Communication","Client engagement","Project management"]

Lead and shape the FM Operational Readiness and Transition for major clients, ensuring safe, compliant handover from construction to operations. Drive design reviews, mobilisation, and transition of FM service models across sectors, while growing the Operational Readiness offering, delivering complex engagements, and leading high-performing teams.

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Turner & Townsend
Turner & Townsend
3 months ago

Associate Director - FM Operational Readiness

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Job Summary

Lead and shape the FM Operational Readiness and Transition for major clients, ensuring safe, compliant handover from construction to operations. Drive design reviews, mobilisation, and transition of FM service models across sectors, while growing the Operational Readiness offering, delivering complex engagements, and leading high-performing teams.
Location: Sheffield
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead end-to-end operational readiness and Government Soft Landings programmes, ensuring assets are safe, compliant, and fully operational at handover.
  • •Provide strategic oversight across multiple projects, ensuring consistent application of best practice in readiness, transition, and mobilisation.
  • •Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, including developers, operators, and end users.
  • •Lead design reviews, asset reviews, and readiness assurance activities, ensuring operational risks are identified and mitigated early.
  • •Develop and implement a comprehensive Operational Readiness Plan aligned to project milestones and operational objectives, including governance, KPIs, milestones, risk management, and readiness criteria.

Key Requirements

  • •Extensive experience delivering FM Operational Readiness/mobilisation programmes
  • •Strong understanding of asset handover, commissioning, and transition into operations
  • •Expertise in CAFM/IWMS systems and asset data management
  • •Deep knowledge of FM operations, compliance, and maintenance strategies (e.g., SFG20)
  • •Proven ability to lead design reviews, readiness assurance, and GSL activities
Experience:Facilities managementReal estateConstruction
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:LeadershipStakeholder managementCommunicationClient engagementProject management
Certifications:IWFMRICSCIBSE
Languages:English
Tech Stack:CAFMIWMSMS Office

Company Brief

Turner & Townsend
Global professional services firm providing program, project and cost management, advisory and consulting services across property, infrastructure and natural resources sectors to public and private clients worldwide.
Industry: Consulting
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Leeds, United Kingdom
Founded: 1946
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