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As Turner & Townsend’s Director – Natural Resources, Paul Laybourne oversees the West Australian
mining and metals cost centre. He sets and maintains high levels of service delivery, trains and mentors
team members, and assists clients to deliver challenging projects and programs.
Paul has worked for Turner & Townsend for almost seven years, across four countries and two continents.
His dedication, application, love of a challenge and strong sense of achievement are qualities called on in
the company’s ongoing projects and programs – some of the most demanding and complex in the world.
Attracting talented people in WA, and retaining them is tough. Paul says maintaining the right balance
of stimulating work, training and growth is continually challenging but rewarding.
In his experience, however, there are times when commitment and hard work driving a solution through
the wrong strategy are not enough. “Stopping a project to reassess a delivery strategy or contracting
approach is always painful, but correcting the issue and setting the correct path has to date returned
greater dividends in the medium to long-term, whatever the immediate fallout”, he says.
Paul recently joined the WA Mining Club. He hopes to meet like-minded professionals in mining to share experiences, opportunities
and solutions for furthering the growth of WA’s resource sector.
Most admired business leader:
Bill Gates
Likes doing away from work:
Family time, watching and playing most sports
Future goals:
Drive Route 66 across America
Preferred dinner guest:
Sir Bobby Robson
Turner & Townsend is a wholly
independent, global professional services
firm providing specialist expertise
to the mining and metals sector for
over 50 years. Working in Australia,
Europe, Africa, the Americas and the
Middle East, the company supports
local and multinational organisations
across mining, mineral processing and
associated infrastructure industries.
The company offers standalone or
fully integrated services, adding tangible
value for clients investing in, owning and
operating assets. Services include project,
program and cost management, project
services and controls, and advisory
management consultancy services.
Operating across 80 offices in
33
countries, with nine offices in
Australia, Turner & Townsend has
maintained a hub in Perth for 15 years.
Its customers include major national and
international mining companies, and
junior/mid tier miners and contractors.
Despite the turbulent international
times, and consolidation of many
competitors, Turner & Townsend
has become one of the largest
independent commercial and
project services providers globally.
Its people are qualified professionals
from diverse commercial and
contractual backgrounds, and their
depth of international experience
and understanding of the resources
agenda allow them to deliver local
solutions with a global pedigree,
and strategies for effective
investment programs.
Meet WAMC Member – Paul Laybourne
TURNER&TOWNSEND
…
local solutions with a global pedigree
Turner & Townsend received a
Gold Payroll Giving Award
recently, in recognition
of its employees’ monetary and pro-bono time donated to local communities.
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Contact:
Turner & Townsend
T: 0488 728 827
E:
paul.laybourne@turntown.com
www.turnerandtownsend.com