Lead Technical Project Manager HQ

Turner Construction Company; New Jersey; Hybrid; USD 172,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner Construction Company is seeking an IS Lead Technical Project Manager HQ to spearhead complex technology projects across multiple functions, coordinating vendors, systems, and deployment activities. The role emphasizes roadmap support, intake prioritization, and resource planning, with a path toward senior leadership.

The position offers development opportunities, mentoring, and exposure to enterprise-wide technology delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business, engineering, construction management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Ten or more years of experience in technology project management, program management, enterprise systems delivery, or technology consulting.
• Demonstrated experience leading large, complex, cross-functional technology initiatives.
• Experience coordinating multiple related projects, workstreams, technical teams, or vendors as an integrated program.
• Working knowledge of enterprise applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, integrations, cloud services, and operational support.
• Experience supporting technology roadmaps, project intake, prioritization, portfolio planning, or resource-capacity
• Experience mentoring, coaching, or reviewing the work of project-management or delivery personnel.
• Experience managing project budgets, forecasts, vendors, consultants, statements of work, and material project changes.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, negotiation, conflict-resolution, and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and establish accountability across organizational boundaries.
• PMP certification or equivalent accredited project or program-management certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex technology projects and coordinated programs from initiation through implementation, stabilization, and transition to operational support.
• Develop integrated plans covering scope, schedule, budget, resources, technical dependencies, vendors, testing, training, implementation, and organizational readiness.
• Coordinate delivery across enterprise applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, integrations, service delivery, construction technology, and business teams.
• Identify technical, operational, resource, and organizational risks and drive timely mitigation, escalation, and decision-making.
• Lead implementation-readiness, cutover-readiness, and post-implementation reviews.
• Support the development and maintenance of the technology roadmap by identifying proposed initiatives, dependencies, timing, resource needs, risks, and delivery options.
• Participate in project intake, prioritization, annual planning, capacity planning, and portfolio-review activities.
• Recommend when initiatives should be clarified, phased, combined, rescoped, delayed, or escalated for leadership review.
• Lead the stabilization or recovery of assigned projects that are materially at risk.
• Mentor and coach project managers, project coordinators, analysts, and other delivery personnel.
• Review project plans, schedules, status reports, risk registers, implementation plans, and executive communications prepared by less-experienced team members.
• Help establish and improve project-management standards, templates, governance, reporting, and delivery practices.
• Provide functional direction to assigned project resources and coordinate work across projects with shared teams, vendors, systems, or stakeholders.
• Present project health, financial status, risks, decisions, trade-offs, and recommendations to business sponsors, IS leadership, and executive stakeholders.
• Manage vendor deliverables, statements of work, implementation plans, forecasts, budgets, and contractual commitments.
• Act as a delegate for the IS Project Management Lead during designated project reviews, planning sessions, or portfolio meetings.

Skills

Executive communication

Leadership

Mentoring

Risk management

Negotiation

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

ERP systems

PMIS

Cloud services

Cybersecurity platforms

Job description

Division: Headquarters

Project Location(s): New York, NY 10001 USA

Minimum Years Experience:

Travel Involved: 0-10%

Job Type: Regular

Job Classification: Experienced

Education: Bachelors Degree

Job Family: Information Services

Compensation: Salaried Exempt

Location: Position can be performed from any U.S. company office, with opportunity for office and remote work.

Position Description

The IS Lead Technical Project Manager HQ leads complex, cross-functional technology projects and coordinated programs involving multiple business functions, technical teams, vendors, systems, and dependencies. This role is responsible for direct project delivery while also supporting technology roadmapping, project intake, prioritization, resource planning, and portfolio coordination. The position provides functional leadership to other project-management resources through mentoring, work review, coaching, and improvement of project-delivery practices. The role is intended to provide a development path into formal project-management leadership and, over time, a Manager or Director-level technology delivery position.

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Lead complex technology projects and coordinated programs from initiation through implementation, stabilization, and transition to operational support.
• Develop integrated plans covering scope, schedule, budget, resources, technical dependencies, vendors, testing, training, implementation, and organizational readiness.
• Coordinate delivery across enterprise applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, integrations, service delivery, construction technology, and business teams.
• Identify technical, operational, resource, and organizational risks and drive timely mitigation, escalation, and decision-making.
• Lead implementation-readiness, cutover-readiness, and post-implementation reviews.
• Support the development and maintenance of the technology roadmap by identifying proposed initiatives, dependencies, timing, resource needs, risks, and delivery options.
• Participate in project intake, prioritization, annual planning, capacity planning, and portfolio-review activities.
• Recommend when initiatives should be clarified, phased, combined, rescoped, delayed, or escalated for leadership review.
• Lead the stabilization or recovery of assigned projects that are materially at risk.
• Mentor and coach project managers, project coordinators, analysts, and other delivery personnel.
• Review project plans, schedules, status reports, risk registers, implementation plans, and executive communications prepared by less-experienced team members.
• Help establish and improve project-management standards, templates, governance, reporting, and delivery practices.
• Provide functional direction to assigned project resources and coordinate work across projects with shared teams, vendors, systems, or stakeholders.
• Present project health, financial status, risks, decisions, trade-offs, and recommendations to business sponsors, IS leadership, and executive stakeholders.
• Manage vendor deliverables, statements of work, implementation plans, forecasts, budgets, and contractual commitments.
• Act as a delegate for the IS Project Management Lead during designated project reviews, planning sessions, or portfolio meetings.

Decision Authority

The IS Lead Technical Project Manager may:

• Establish delivery expectations and governance for assigned initiatives.
• Challenge unrealistic schedules, budgets, resource assumptions, status assessments, and vendor commitments.
• Require corrective-action plans for inadequate project controls, reporting, or implementation readiness.
• Recommend changes to project scope, sequencing, resources, governance, or delivery approach.
• Escalate unresolved risks and decisions to the appropriate IS or business leader.
• Recommend project-management resource assignments and development actions.
• Recommend that an initiative be paused or reevaluated when critical sponsorship, funding, resources, technical prerequisites, or operational ownership are missing.

Final authority for enterprise strategy, funding, portfolio priorities, organizational structure, and formal personnel actions remains with the appropriate IS and business leaders

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, business, engineering, construction management, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Ten or more years of experience in technology project management, program management, enterprise systems delivery, or technology consulting.
• Demonstrated experience leading large, complex, cross-functional technology initiatives.
• Experience coordinating multiple related projects, workstreams, technical teams, or vendors as an integrated program.
• Working knowledge of enterprise applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, integrations, cloud services, and operational support.
• Experience supporting technology roadmaps, project intake, prioritization, portfolio planning, or resource-capacity
• Experience mentoring, coaching, or reviewing the work of project-management or delivery personnel.
• Experience managing project budgets, forecasts, vendors, consultants, statements of work, and material project changes.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, negotiation, conflict-resolution, and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and establish accountability across organizational boundaries.
• PMP certification or equivalent accredited project or program-management certification.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in construction, engineering, real estate, manufacturing, utilities, or another project-based and field-intensive industry.
• Experience with ERP, PMIS, financial systems, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, data, integration, or field-technology initiatives.
• Experience improving project-management standards, governance, reporting, or delivery practices.
• Experience with project recovery, organizational change management, agile delivery, or business-process improvement.
• Previous experience as a team lead, functional lead, supervisor, or acting manager.
• The salary range for this position in NYC is estimated to be $172k - $220K.
• The salary range for this position in San Francisco is estimated to be $172k - $220K.
• The salary range for this position in New Jersey is estimated to be $172k - $220K.
• The salary range for this position in Seattle is estimated to be $172k - $220K.
• The salary range for this position in Boston is estimated to be $156k - $200K.
• The salary range for this position in Connecticut is estimated to be $156k - $200K.
• The salary range for this position in Denver is estimated to be $156k - $200K.
• The salary range for this position in San Diego is estimated to be $156k - $200K.
• The salary range for this position in Los Angeles is estimated to be $156k - $200K.
• The salary range for this position in Baltimore is estimated to be $156k - $200K.
• The salary range for this position in Washington DC is estimated to $156k - $200K.
• The salary range for this position in Maine is estimated to be $156k - $200K.
• The salary range for this position in Virginia is estimated to be $156k - $200K.
• The salary range for this position in Chicago is estimated to be $146k - $186K.
• The salary range for this position in Cleveland is estimated to be $136k - $174K.

Actual compensation packages within that range are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years and depth of experience, certifications, and specific location.

Turner is an Equal Opportunity Employer - race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.