Consultant Project Manager - Construction

Turner & Townsend Limited; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking project management professionals to join their dynamic Real Estate team in Manchester. This role involves leading project management commissions, ensuring successful delivery of projects while meeting client objectives. You will be responsible for establishing project governance, managing quality and safety issues, and facilitating cross-functional teams. The company promotes a healthy work-life balance and values diversity, making it an exciting place to grow your career. If you have a passion for project management and want to make an impact in the real estate sector, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing construction/refurbishment projects in a consultancy.
• Degree qualified in relevant discipline is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead project management commissions ensuring delivery to client objectives.
• Establish project governance and manage quality, safety, and environment issues.
• Monitor project finances and facilitate cross-functional project teams.

Skills

Project Management

Client Interface

Strategic Advising

Performance Management

Change Control

Education

Degree in relevant discipline

Job description

• Full-time

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is 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 programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

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

We have several exciting opportunities for project management professionals to join our expanding Real Estate team in Manchester. Responsibilities include:

• To lead project management commissions, taking responsibility for end to end service delivery.
• To act as the key, day to day client interface, ensuring that client objectives are met and that projects are delivered to time and cost targets and the appropriate quality standards.

Project Managers handle commissions of varying scale and value; depending upon the complexity of the project, the normal would be up to £40m in value. However, where the service provided is advisory in nature, for example advising on urban re-generation funding, the overall project size may be much larger.

Project management responsibilities include:

• Advising at a strategic level at the project conception stage, including providing advice on the different approaches that can be adopted in order to successfully achieve the client’s overall objectives.
• Leading the establishment of the overall success criteria for the project, including time, cost, technical and performance parameters.
• Planning for and the ongoing management of quality, safety, health and environment issues.
• Establishing effective project governance, processes and systems to be utilised throughout the project.
• Project planning, including ensuring the production of the detailed project plan.
• Advising upon the procurement of resources.
• Leading and facilitating the overall cross-functional project team.
• Monitoring and applying performance management techniques, including the use of KPI’s to improve project performance.
• Managing the change control process.
• Monitoring and advising upon project finances.
• Managing the flow of project information between the team and the client, through regular meetings and written communications.
• Ensuring the production of formal project progress and other reports.
• Taking a leading role in interfacing with the client and other consultants, at all project stages.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in relevant discipline (desirable).
• Proven experience managing construction/refurbishment projects, ideally in a consultancy environment (essential).

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.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.