Construction Project Manager - Retail Construction

Turner & Townsend; Detroit (MI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in the United States is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead large-scale construction programs. The role focuses on delivering compliant projects, managing interfaces among owners, architects, engineers, and contractors, and ensuring governance standards across every phase.

You will monitor milestones, budgets, and design conformity while producing formal reports. Strong communication and organization are essential for success in this dynamic client-facing position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in construction management, architecture, or engineering.
• Strong organizational and teamwork skills.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and project tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholders including architects, engineers, and suppliers to deliver compliant projects.
• Analyze milestones, track progress, and avoid schedule slips.
• Ensure governance, processes, and systems are applied across projects.
• Produce formal project status reports and other required documents.
• Monitor multiple construction projects and ensure design standards are followed.
• Coordinate between design teams and suppliers via regular trackers and reviews.
• Forecast milestones and budgets, and support cost control and value engineering.
• Provide technical support to owners, architects, contractors, and regional stakeholders.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Schedule management

Cost control

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction management, architecture, or engineering

Tools

Procore

Construction PM tools

Job 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.

Job Description

About the role

Turner & Townsend seeks an experienced Project Manager to support large-scale construction projects. The ideal project manager will be driven to provide our clients with excellent service.

What you´ll do

• Manage stakeholders including architects, engineers, and supply chains to deliver compliant projects.


• Can analyze, track, and effectively manage critical milestone activities to avoid schedule slips.


• Verify that effective project governance, processes, and systems are utilized.


• Ensure application of best practice on all projects.


• Production of formal project status reports and other reports as required


• Monitor the progress of multiple construction projects simultaneously to ensure that the approved design standards are applied correctly.


• Manage the interface between all suppliers through monthly trackers and weekly reviews


• Manage the flow of project information between the project team through regular meetings and written communications.


• Forecast and update key project milestones and budget.


• Manage and monitor local design teams in accordance with commission criteria


• Provide technical support to owners, architects, general contractors and regional stakeholders


• Rapid response to RFIs from the field


• Provide expertise for cost control, value engineering, and constructability guidance where required


• Independent review of status reports, drawing submittals, timelines, and costs from architects, contractors and suppliers.


• Client management – assist in developing excellent working relationships with Clients, with a view towards maximizing new opportunities.


• Strategic Thinking - provides advice to project teams on approaches that can be adopted to successfully achieve both clients’ objectives and business objectives.


• Knowledge management – ensure that key information and learnings generated from each project are captured.


• Process improvement – Identify ways to improve internal systems and processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, architecture, engineering or field related to construction.


• Strong organizational and management skills – ability to work effectively and collaboratively with the broader team


• Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Procore, and construction project management tools

Additional Information

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

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our client's needs*

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.

Please find out more about us at www.turnerandtownsend.com/ and https://www.heery.com/

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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