Construction Project Manager - K-12 Education

Turnertownsend; Beaufort (SC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend Heery is seeking an experienced Construction Project Manager to oversee K-12 Education projects in Beaufort, SC. The role focuses on managing budgets, schedules, procurement, quality and risk, while coordinating with design professionals, contractors, and administrators.

The successful candidate will interface with clients at all stages, prepare detailed project plans, track progress, and manage change orders to protect scope and schedule.

Qualifications

• Experience as Project Manager in public-sector design/construction.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for client facing roles.
• Ability to manage complex projects across budgets and schedules.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with design professionals, contractors, and administrators to meet contract specs and codes.
• Manages budget, schedule, procurement, quality and risk for multiple projects.
• Interfaces with client and consultants at all stages of projects.
• Plans projects, produces detailed plans, and creates action plans to meet objectives.
• Monitors performance, tracks progress, and reports variances.
• Implements change management and approves change orders with client input.
• Maintains project data integrity and documentation and conducts meetings.

Skills

Client facing

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

Construction Management degree

Professional registration preferred

LEED/PMP/PgMP preferred

Job description

Turner & Townsend Heery is seeking an experienced Construction Project Manager to work on K-12 Education projects in Beaufort, SC.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with design professionals, contractors, and administrators to ensure an acceptable product according to contract specifications, local and federal codes, regulations, and district policy.
• Manages all facets of project management (budget, schedule, procurement, quality & risk) for individual projects including planning, design, construction, occupancy and closeout.
• Interface directly with the client and other consultants, at all project stages.
• Project planning, including producing the detailed project plan.
• Creates action plans to meet objectives, budget and schedule.
• Monitoring and applying performance management techniques.
• Tracks progress of each project against goals, objectives, approved budgets, approved timelines, reports status and variances.
• Managing the change control process.
• Implements change management routines to assess change requests, make recommendations, secure Client approvals, and issue change orders.
• Assesses change requests to determine impacts to scope, budget, schedule, quality and risk with management support.
• Managing the flow of project information between the team and the client, through regular meetings and written communications.
• Preparing formal project budget progress and other reports.
• Quality Control - Ensuring compliance with quality standards as defined by Turner & Townsend Heery and the client.
• Working to construct proposals for new work or variations for existing projects.
• Identifying opportunities to improve Project Management procedures, templates and products referring ideas to the appropriate line manager.
• Is an integral part of the project delivery resources/team to achieve project goals.
• Implements communication plan for meetings and written reports/meeting minutes to keep client and project resources informed.
• Facilitates project meetings when appropriate.
• Establishing effective project governance, processes and systems to be utilized throughout project.
• Ensures project data integrity and documentation is accurate, timely and coordinated.
• Implements standard risk management routines with management support, to identify project risks, develop risk mitigation and contingency plans, and implement action plans to reduce or eliminate project risks.
• Ensuring prompt client invoicing and monitoring project and program financial status.
• Financial management - track and manage all budget components of projects utilizing financial system in order to monitor a project's financial status.

Education / Experience

• Demonstrated experience working as a Project Manager within the design and construction industry on public-sector projects, ideally with K-12 Education projects.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to be highly effective in a client facing role.
• College degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering or a related field or equivalent related experience.
• Professional registration (PE, RA, AIA) preferred.
• LEED accreditation and/or PMP or PgMP certification preferred.
• Experienced managing stakeholders and working in a team environment.
• 5-8 years of Owner's Representative or Project Management experience, or equivalent.
• On site requirements might change based on client needs
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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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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