Senior Construction Manager - Government Projects

Turner & Townsend; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend Heery is seeking a Senior Construction Manager to join our team in Houston, TX, supporting large-scale government construction projects. The ideal candidate will have prior experience managing complex programs and coordinating stakeholders across architects, engineers, and contractors.

Responsibilities include tracking milestones, ensuring governance and best practices are followed, producing status reports, and providing technical support to owners and regional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, civil engineering, or equivalent.
• Minimum 5-7 years of relevant project management experience.
• Strong organizational and management skills and ability to work with a broader team.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Procore and construction PM tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholders including architects, engineers and suppliers to deliver compliant projects.
• Analyze, track and manage critical milestone activities to avoid schedule slips.
• Ensure project governance, processes and systems are applied consistently.
• Produce formal project status reports and other required reporting.
• Monitor multiple projects to ensure design standards are applied correctly.
• Forecast and update key project milestones; manage RFIs from the field.
• Provide technical support to owners, designers, general contractors and regional stakeholders.
• Support cost control, value engineering and constructability guidance as needed.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Excel/Office suite

Education

Bachelor's degree in construction management or civil engineering

Tools

Procore

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Outlook

Job description

• Full-time

Company Description

Founded in 1952 and formerly known as Heery International Inc., the firm operates throughout the United States as part of Turner & Townsend. It specializes in project and program management for public sector organizations, with industry-leading experts in corporate, cultural, healthcare, justice, sports, K-12 education, higher education, aviation and government facilities.

Recognized for service excellence by a broad spectrum of professional organizations and industry publications, the talented multidisciplinary team at Turner & Townsend Heery exceeds client expectations — adding value, best practice and expertise at every turn. The team's unique client-centric culture is integrated into each project and reflects a passion for the built environment and staying true to the client’s vision.

Job Description

Turner & Townsend Heery is seeking an experiencedSenior Construction Manager to join our team in support of large scale Government construction projects. The ideal individual will have prior experience supporting large-scale construction projects.

Responsibilities:

• Manage stakeholders including architects, engineers, and supplychains 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.
• 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 is captured.
• Process improvement – Identify ways to improve internal systems and processes
• SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, civil engineering, or applicable bachelor’s degree and or equivalent experience.
• Minimum5-7 years of relevant project management experience.
• Strong organizational and management skills – the ability to work effectively and collaboratively with the broader team.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Procore, and construction project management tools.

Additional Information

*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.

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

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