Senior K-12 Construction PM - Lead Impactful Projects

Turner & Townsend; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend HEERY seeks an experienced Senior Construction Project Manager with K-12 construction experience to support large-scale education facilities. The role focuses on coordinating stakeholders, tracking milestones, and applying best practices across multiple projects, while ensuring governance and cost controls are in place.

The ideal candidate will lead teams, manage interfaces with architects, engineers, and contractors, and provide technical support to owners and regional

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, civil engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 5-7 years of relevant project management experience.
• Must have public sector Owner’s Rep/Advisor experience, preferably some education projects.
• Strong organizational and management skills – ability to work effectively with the broader team.
• Proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Procore, and construction project management tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage stakeholders including architects, engineers, and supply chains to deliver compliant projects.
• Analyze, track, and 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.
• Produce formal project status reports and other reports as required.
• Monitor the progress of multiple construction projects to ensure design standards are applied correctly.
• Manage interface between all suppliers through trackers and reviews.
• Facilitate project communications through meetings and written updates.
• Forecast and update key project milestones.
• Support local design teams per commission criteria.
• Provide technical support to owners, architects, general contractors and regional stakeholders.
• Respond rapidly to RFIs from the field.
• Offer cost control, value engineering, constructability guidance.
• Review status reports, drawings, timelines and costs from architects, contractors and suppliers.
• Assist in developing strong client relationships and pursue new opportunities.
• Provide strategic thinking for project approaches to meet client and business objectives.
• Capture key learnings from each project.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Cost control

Communication

Team coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction management or civil engineering

Tools

Procore

Job description

Turner & Townsend HEERY seeks an experienced Senior Construction Project Manager with K-12 construction experience to support large-scale education facilities. The role focuses on coordinating stakeholders, tracking milestones, and applying best practices across multiple projects, while ensuring governance and cost controls are in place.

The ideal candidate will lead teams, manage interfaces with architects, engineers, and contractors, and provide technical support to owners and regional