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.
Please visit our website: www.turnerandtownsend.com
Job Description
Responsibilities
The Senior Project Manager will be accountable for comprehensive end-to-end service delivery, ensuring that client objectives are achieved through the execution of effective project management. Key responsibilities include:
- Manage all project phases from inception through completion, maintaining direct interface with clients, consultants, and stakeholders at every stage
- Oversee project schedules and budgets with rigorous financial control and accountability
- Direct and supervise general contractors and all directly contracted vendors and consultants
- Conduct thorough reviews of construction work-in-place, assess quality standards, and approve capital expenditure allocations
- Validate and revise cost estimates prepared by contractors and internal client organizations
- Plan, organize, schedule, and control project delivery to meet established timelines and performance metrics
- Lead and facilitate client meetings and stakeholder engagements, presenting comprehensive project updates at all phases
- Manage stakeholder relationships, serving as the primary local client contact while reporting to the global team
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks; maintain and manage the risk register with appropriate risk mitigation workshops
- Monitor and report on construction cost factors and financial performance data
- Conduct field quality control inspections and validation of civil works in accordance with established standards
- Support design management and review to identify optimal construction methodologies and cost efficiencies
- Provide engineering guidance on project costs and budget implications during design-build modifications
- Review and process payment requests in accordance with contract terms
- Represent client interests during disputes, disagreements, modifications, and change order negotiations
- Track and manage critical milestone activities to prevent schedule delays and ensure on-time delivery
- Coordinate equipment procurement and logistics to align with project schedules
- Lead value engineering sessions to optimize project performance and cost effectiveness
- Oversee the transition of building operations to the client, including comprehensive closeout documentation and warranty management
- Maintain detailed project documentation, issue reports as agreed with the client, and ensure compliance with all contractual requirements
- Demonstrate advanced proficiency in spreadsheet analysis, report writing, and executive presentations
- Manage team resources, priorities, and revenue to ensure client expectations are consistently met
- Establish and maintain elevated quality standards, leading quality control initiatives throughout the project lifecycle
- Ensure comprehensive knowledge and compliance with Health, Safety, and Environmental regulations in construction
Qualifications
Education/Experience:
- 8-12yearsprofessional experienceas a project manager.
- Experience in LEED Projects is a plus
- Engineering or architectural degree with chartered status
- Fluent in English and Spanish at a working level to lead meetings, prepare reports and written communication, dopresentationsand talk to clients and suppliers.
- PMI or equivalent certification is a plus
- Knowledge of Microsoft Project and Primavera P6 is a plus
- KnowledgeofAutoCAD, BIM
Skills and Qualifications
- Run and lead client and other required meetings,presenting updates to the client at all project stages.
- Stakeholder management: Lead local Client and report to global team
- Manage risks and control the risk register, manage risk workshops as needed
- Identifythe factors that influence construction costs and canmonitorand report on this data.
- Issue reports as agreed with Client
- Run at field with quality control formats validation for civil works in general
- Support design management and reviewlooking forward toidentifyconstructions methods opportunities
- Support engineering decisions relating to the project cost and budget while design-build changes take place during construction.
- Reviewrequestsforpayment.
- Advocate on the part of the client during disputes, disagreements, modifications, or change orders.
- Analyse, track and effectively manage critical milestone activities to avoid scheduleslip.Track and ensure equipment meet the project schedule
- Lead value engineering sessions asrequired
- Oversee and manage the transfer of the building operations to the client including allclose outdocumentation and warranties.
- Collaborative approach, be client facing, able to develop strong relationships, confidently present toclients and stakeholders.
- Be assertive and detail orientated,to identifypotential issues early and raise them in theappropriate forumfor resolution.
- Demonstrabletrack recordin the delivery of relevant projects.
- Advanced skills with spreadsheets, reportwritingand presentations.
- Management experience, with ability to manage and lead team in deliveringa commissionand general line management.
- Manage revenue, teamresourceand priorities to ensure that client expectations are met.
- Have an elevated sense ofquality, andleadquality control action.
- Have a good knowledge and awareness of Health and Environmental Safety in construction.
- Be an effective communicator, both verbal and written.
- Be a self-starter, a team player, anatural leader capable of motivating teams.
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.
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