Assistant Utilities Consultant

Turner & Townsend Alinea

The Role

Overview

Assist utilities projects with coordination, design, cost analysis, procurement & reporting.

Key Responsibilities

  • feasibility assessments
  • load calculations
  • utility coordination
  • cost database
  • tender support
  • project reporting

Tasks

-Assist with the preparation of feasibility assessments and load calculations. -Coordinate utility works and liaise with contractors, clients, and consultants. -Maintain accurate project data and assist with digital cost database updates. -Attend meetings and contribute to the coordination of multi-utility strategies. -Support procurement and coordination of utility provider quotations and designs. -Review utility proposals to identify risks, constraints, and opportunities for savings. -Support tender processes, cost assessments, and contract administration (NEC/JCT). -Support project reporting, meeting minutes, trackers, and communication records. -Identify opportunities to improve internal systems and client delivery. -Assist in interpreting client utility requirements and reviewing scheme drawings.

Requirements

  • professional qualification
  • microsoft office
  • gis
  • cad
  • degree
  • communication

What You Bring

-Willingness to work toward a professional qualification (e.g., RICS, ICE, IET). -Eagerness to learn and develop within a professional consultancy environment. -Confident communicator, able to work collaboratively with diverse stakeholders. -Proficient in Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint); exposure to GIS or CAD desirable. -Strong organisational and analytical skills with attention to detail. -Previous experience in utilities coordination, engineering, or project support advantageous. -Degree or HND in a relevant technical, engineering, or construction discipline (preferred but not essential). -Exposure to diverse client projects, frameworks, and digital delivery tools.

Benefits

-Structured mentoring and training to progress toward Utilities Consultant roles. -Opportunity to develop commercial, technical, and project management skills within a market-leading consultancy.

The Company

About Turner & Townsend Alinea

-Join forces with a global advisory leader to shake up real‑estate cost management. -Grew on backbone of bold city skyscrapers and landmark estates—from the Shard to Battersea Power Station and Wimbledon grounds. -Drives high‑stakes projects across sectors like data centres, life sciences labs, tall commercial towers and mixed‑use regeneration. -Takes cost control beyond numbers: digital tools and technical firepower fuel value‑led delivery in complex builds. -Packed with specialist micro‑teams—for façades, MEP, infrastructure and utilities—the London arm brings niche depth. -Blends boutique expertise with global muscle: a disruptive hybrid serving developer, investor and end‑user needs. -Anchored in capital’s skyline, yet stretching into transport, health, education, energy and hospitality projects.

Sector Specialisms

Data Centres

Commercial

Residential

Life Sciences

Retail

Sports, Leisure and Hospitality

Electricity Transmission and Distribution

Rail

Road

Sea Transport

Air Transport

Utilities

Mineral Extraction

Healthcare

Defence and Security