Senior Project Manager - Data Center Construction

Turner & Townsend; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in the United States is seeking a Senior Project Manager to join our Data Center team. The ideal candidate will have prior experience supporting large-scale construction projects and will manage stakeholders across architects, engineers and suppliers to deliver compliant projects.

You will oversee governance, apply best practices, produce status reports, monitor milestones, coordinate interfaces, and provide cost control and value engineering support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in construction management, civil engineering or equivalent with relevant experience.
• 5–7 years of project management experience in large-scale construction projects.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work with cross-functional teams.
• 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 milestones to avoid schedule slips.
• Ensure effective project governance, processes and systems are used.
• Produce formal project status reports and other required reports.
• Monitor multiple projects to ensure design standards are applied correctly.
• Coordinate interfaces between suppliers via monthly trackers and weekly reviews.
• Provide cost control, value engineering and constructability guidance where required.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Project coordination

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in construction management or civil engineering

Tools

Procore

Excel

Word/PowerPoint

Job description

• Full-time

Company Description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over22,000 peoplein more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure,energyand 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 includeprogramme, 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 estateservicesand investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premierprogramme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

Turner & Townsendare seeking an experiencedSenior Project Managertojoin our team in support ofour Data Center team. The ideal individual will have prior experience supporting large-scale construction projects.

Responsibilities:

• Manage stakeholders including architects, engineers, and supplychainsto deliver compliant projects.
• Can analyze, track, and effectively manage critical milestone activities to avoid scheduleslips.
• 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 asrequired.
• Monitor the progress of multiple construction projects simultaneously to ensure that the approved design standards areappliedcorrectly.
• 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 andmonitorlocal design teamsin accordance withcommission criteria.
• Provide technical support to owners, architects, generalcontractorsand regional stakeholders.
• Rapid response to RFIs from the field.
• Provideexpertisefor cost control, value engineering, and constructability guidance whererequired.
• Independent review of status reports, drawing submittals,timelinesand costs from architects,contractorsand suppliers.
• Client management –assistin developing excellent working relationships with Clients, with a view towards maximizing new opportunities.
• Strategic Thinking -providesadvice to project teams on approaches that can be adopted to successfully achieve both clients’objectivesand businessobjectives.
• Knowledge management – ensure that key information and learnings generated from each projectiscaptured.
• 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 relevantproject managementexperience.
• Strong organizational and management skills –the abilityto work effectively and collaboratively withthebroader team.
• Proficiencyin Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Procore, and construction project management tools.

Additional Information

*On-site presence and requirements may change depending on our clients' 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.

Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV’s that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list or that have not followed due process. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s will be treated as a direct application.

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