Senior Construction Project Leader

Turner & Townsend; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend seeks an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale commercial construction projects. The role focuses on delivering compliant projects through effective governance, stakeholder collaboration, and rigorous milestone tracking.

Responsibilities include cost control, reporting, and ensuring best practices across projects. The successful candidate will manage multiple teams and interfaces with owners, engineers, and contractors in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, architecture, engineering or field related to construction.
• Minimum 5+ years of relevant experience.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholders including architects, engineers, and supply chain to deliver compliant projects.
• Can analyse, track, and effectively manage critical milestone activities to avoid schedule slip.
• 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 being 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 - provide 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.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Cost control

Schedule management

Construction industry knowledge

Procore

Excel

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction management

Tools

Procore

Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

Word

Job description

Turner & Townsend seeks an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead large-scale commercial construction projects. The role focuses on delivering compliant projects through effective governance, stakeholder collaboration, and rigorous milestone tracking.

Responsibilities include cost control, reporting, and ensuring best practices across projects. The successful candidate will manage multiple teams and interfaces with owners, engineers, and contractors in a dynamic environment.