Senior Project Manager

Turner-; Halifax; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & dental benefits

RRSP matching

Learning & development budget

Professional membership/license fee

Job summary

Turner & Townsend is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead tasks across design, procurement and construction, including furniture installation and IT coordination. You will work with client teams to identify initial budgets and scheduling at feasibility, set up meetings, and drive actions to closure.

Responsibilities include maintaining budget and schedule, coordinating contracts, change orders, site visits, and project closeout documents, with a focus on delivering outcomes and value.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years of PM experience in construction
• Commercial or retail fit-out experience required
• PMP certification is desirable

Responsibilities

• Lead tasks across design, procurement and construction including furniture install and IT coordination
• Identify budgets and scheduling at project feasibility
• Set up meetings and drive actions to closure
• Ensure document controls and file specifications compliance
• Coordinate stakeholders, consultants, vendors and contractors
• Provide regular reporting and manage change orders

Skills

Project management

Budgeting

Scheduling

Stakeholder mgmt

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering/Architecture

Tools

MS Outlook

MS Word

MS Excel

PowerPoint

MS Project

Primavera P6

Job description

Turner & Townsendis 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 programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include program, 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 program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

As a Senior Project Manager, you will be involved in:

• Leading individual tasks throughout the design, procurement and construction process including furnitureinstalland coordination with client I.T.
• Working with the client team toidentifyinitial budgets andscheduling atproject feasibility.
• Setting up andleadmeetings, transcribe meeting minutes and drive action items to closure.
• Ensuring project compliance withclient’sdocument controls and file specifications.
• Collaborating and coordinating client stakeholders, consultants, client directvendorsand contractors.
• Providing regular reporting.
• Aiming tomaintainbudget and schedule andidentifypotential solutions for issues that look to jeopardizesame.
• Running procurement, recommendation and appointment of consultants and contractors, andestablishingquotations and order placement with client direct vendors.
• Eliciting and reviewing results from relevant appointed parties.
• Coordinating Contracts and Master Service Agreementsthroughthe project lifecycle.
• Change order management.
• Attending weekly orbi-weeklysite visits when in construction.
• Administrating project observation reports.
• Processing payments to consultants,contractorsand direct vendors in liaison withconsultantteam.
• Punch-list management
• Administering and coordinating project closeout documentation including lessons learned workshops.

Qualifications

• A minimum of4 - 7 years of experienceas a Project Manager inassistingor supervising construction
• Commercial or retail fit out experience isrequired
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, or a similar field
• PMPcertification is highly desirable
• Proficient in MS Outlook, Word, Excel,Powerpoint, & Project or P6.
• Good with numbers, technology, and web-based data platforms.

Additional Information

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

We may use automated or AI-based tools to support the screening, assessment, or selection of applicants.

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.